Whitechapel rising: the new opening

The Whitechapel Gallery in East London was founded in 1901 and was designed by the architect Charles...

Tarkovsky: Russian film-maker – book review

This is a remarkable new compendium on the life and work of the Russian film-maker Andrei Tarkovsky ...

Beauty Rendered. The Model as Muse: Embodying Fashion

Idealised notions of feminine beauty have, from the beginnings of human history, been a yardstick by...

Victor Majzner, Painting the Torah, 2008

Victor Majzner (b.1945) published a limited edition book (750 copies), Painting the Torah (2008), to...

Baroque World: Baroque 1620-1800: Style in the Age of Magnificence, V&A, L...

Baroque is above everything, the word for a particular style in music, ceramics, furniture, drama, c...

The British Council Collection; Passports

Relatively unknown inside of Britain, the British Council in fact plays an extensive role in nurturi...

Gerhard Richter Portraits

This is a substantial selection of work, a broadly chronological arrangement from throughout his car...

Sickert in Venice. Dulwich Picture Gallery, London. 2009

In 1905 Sickert returned triumphantly from Venice ready to take on and lead the new generation of Br...

Constable Portraits: The Painter and his Circle

This spring the National Portrait Gallery (NPG), armed with a little trowel, unearths lesser-known w...

Book review: Andrei Tarkovsky: elements of cinema

The film Director Andrei Tarkovsky died at the age of 54 in December l986. This was a tragedy at suc...

Rodchenko and Popova: defining constructivism

This superbly researched and hung exhibition is nonetheless somewhat long overdue insofar as it reco...

Cildo Meireles: From Sense to Concept

For Brazilian artist Cildo Meireles...

Will Alsop: Sharp Center

Sharp Center, Ontario College of Art & Design, Toronto, Canada. Opened 25 September 2003...

Jörg Schmeisser

In October 2008 I visited Jörg Schmeisser in his studio in Canberra, Australia. He had just returne...

Damaged Romanticism: A Mirror of Modern Emotion

The highly idyllic nature of the Romantic tradition in philosophy, art, music, literature and theatr...

Interview: Independent curator and author Kohle Yohannan on 'the legend of...

From artfully obscured beginnings in Russia, to her full-blown commercial success by the end of the ...

Rewinding personalities: Van Dyck at Tate Britain

The short journey from the British Museum down to Tate Britain is currently a rewarding trip. The Br...

Book review: Young Chinese Artists: The Next Generation

The survey and coverage of the post-1975 generation of Chinese artists has long been a specific glob...

V&A at Dundee: Making it Happen

The mood was upbeat for the conference to explore the feasibility of building a V&A in the Scottish ...

Carlo Cardazzo – a new vision for art

A must-see exhibition at The Peggy Guggenheim Museum in Venice. Carlo Cardazzo, is now being honoure...

Book review: Projects in China: Architects Von Gerkan Marg and Partners

The Hamburg originated architectural practice von Gerkan Marg and Partners are long established in G...

Review: Andrea Palladio: His Life and Legacy

It is significant that this exhibition at the Royal Academy in London originated in Vicenza (Palazzo...

Book review: The Truth about Babylon: Babylon Myth and Reality

The exhibition Babylon: Myth and Reality rightly seeks to demonstrate and display the truth about th...

Book review: New Orleans 1867. Photographs by Theodore Lilienthal

The publication covers the New Orleans photographs by Theodore Lilienthal mostly made in 1867. The w...