Book review: California Video: Artists and Histories
This sumptuous volume from the Getty Research Institute forms a landmark event in the history and do...
Mark Rothko: The Retrospective
Although 2008 does not mark a centennial birth date or major anniversary in the career of one of the...
Gerhard Richter: Paintings from private collections – book review
Reviewing the catalogue is to appreciate a valuable tool to understanding the more salient tendencie...
Francis Bacon at Tate Britain heralds the artist’s centenary in 2009. It is the first retrospectiv...
The House Of Books Has No Windows
Canadian artists Janet Cardiff and George Bures Miller like telling stories. The narrative impetus p...
A Creative Transatlantic Tango Shapes the Modern World: Paris/New York, 19...
The Museum of the City of New York is highlighting one of the most fascinating instances of artistic...
A maturing craft becomes art: Japan Society's Joe Earle discusses the new ...
The first bamboo basket maker known to have signed his work, Hayakawa Shôkosai, was born in 1815. F...
Harper Road is an unremarkable south London street, flanked by the blocks of large post-war housing ...
In an exhibition at the Haunch of Venison, Rafael Lozano-Hemmer explores the way the viewer is able ...
The paintings of Gerhard Richter were first exhibited in Britain as part of the official 1970 Edinbu...
Xiangshan Campus, China Academy of Art, Hangzhou, China
Established in 1928, the China Academy of Art is the first comprehensive art academy in China commit...
Aboriginal Women as Ambassadors of Art and Culture
The story of the Australian Aboriginal batik projects in five distinct desert communities in the 197...
Robin Rhode. Who Saw Who and Through the Gate
Robin Rhode is charting new ground as a talented, mixed-race South African artist, who pushes the bo...
It seems incredible that the battle to win people's hearts and minds during the cold war that divide...
Mark Rothko: the 'end of philosophy, the beginning of art'
The current exhibition at the Tate Modern enables Studio International to focus on the critical and ...
Book review: The Diary of Charles Holme's 1889 Visit to Japan and North Am...
In December 1888, a small group of British travellers set out for Japan via the Middle East. The par...
Utopia: the genius of Emily Kame Kngwarreye
The exhibition 'Utopia: the Genius of Emily Kame Kngwarreye' at the National Museum of Australia in ...
Two seekers of light - Ammi Phillips and Mark Rothko - meet in Manhattan
Pairing artists from different centuries who had, seemingly, diverse aims and ambitions - one a majo...
Book review: The revision of the modern: seeking the real narrative
Sadly, this important study was published just before the author’s untimely death earlier this yea...
Nine Green Bottles: 'Giorgio Morandi, 1890-1964'
The exhibition now opened at the Metropolitan Museum of Art displays over 100 works by Giorgio Moran...
Medium or rare: the art-market grill
It has been a curious coincidence that the extraordinary Damien Hirst sale took place just before gl...
Book review: Sir John Vanbrugh: Storyteller in Stone
A new biographical study of the architect Sir John Vanbrugh (1664-1726) is most timely. The historic...
To Die For, images of Castle Howard on a certain day
'To Die For' at Castle Howard in Yorkshire presents 13 large photographs by Nick Howard taken in 99 ...
Phyllis Lambert and the Canadian Centre for Architecture
Phyllis Lambert is now in her 81st year and her long life is particularly associated with two buildi...
The Louisiana Museum in Denmark offers a quiet, liminal space for contemplation, isolated from every...
Richard Demarco, Edinburgh International Festival, 2008
It may be a product of age or lack of funding and proper premises but, whatever the reason, Richard ...
'Tracey Emin: 20 Years' at the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art is, in spite of her fame, the...
Foto: Modernity in Central Europe, 1918-1945
This exhibition reaches Edinburgh during the Edinburgh Festival of Art, having travelled via three U...