Richard Hamilton: 'Protest pictures'
Inverleith House is located at the centre of the Royal Botanic Gardens in Edinburgh. At one time it ...
About a wall: Hadrian at the British Museum
History, at least in Northern Europe, essentially defines the Emperor Hadrian, subject of the Britis...
A Runaway Girl at Home in New York: Louise Bourgeois at the Guggenheim
Louise Bourgeois, a travelling retrospective marking the artist's nearly 100 years of living and mor...
Art, Consciousness and Other Intractable Problems
'Neuroscience is emerging as one of the grand belief systems informing the imagination of artists an...
William Kelly - Artist as Peacemaker
American-born Australian artist and human rights advocate, William Kelly first visited Australia on ...
What is it to perceive time? For some, to be temporally aware is to observe the changes in states or...
One of the important architectural icons of the 1970s is, by popular consent, now due to be demolish...
Cy Twombly: Cycles and Seasons
The opening of Callimachus's 'Hymn to Apollo' as translated by Lombardo and Rayer. The god, patron o...
'Poet of Light' Vilhelm Hammershoi: The Poetry of Silence
The exhibition of the work of the Danish artist Vilhelm Hammershoi (1864-1916), entitled 'The Poetry...
The Hanging Gardens of Colas: Bernard Lassus
In 2008 Bernard Lassus finally completed his major project for the company Colas. Now this achieveme...
A Maltese Celebration: Architecture into Art
Richard England, now seventy years of age, is a totally indigenous Maltese architect of internationa...
As we approach the second decade of the turbulent 21st century, the level playing field sought by bo...
Psycho Buildings at the Hayward Gallery
The Hayward Gallery, London, under director Ralph Rugoff, has organised another trailblazing exhibit...
Book review: Photo Art: The New World of Photography
This work, which originated with the Cologne publisher DuMont Buchverlag in 2007, is an invaluable a...
Gustav Klimt: Painting, Design and Modern Life in Vienna 1900
To celebrate 2008 as European Capital of Culture, Tate Liverpool is presenting the first, 'comprehen...
Dr Irene Barberis teaches and researches at Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology. She has recentl...
Arthur Watson: poetic conceptualist
The work of Arthur Watson plays an important role in contemporary Scottish art. Characterised by a '...
An Englishman in Tasmania - Nicholas Blowers
Nicholas Blowers was born in Chelmsford, England in 1972. He studied locally, and then Fine Art at S...
Photographing Nepal from the Inside Out
On 14 March 2008, the Rubin Museum of Art, a venue dedicated to Himalayan arts and culture, opened t...
New Tent Architecture – book review
Tented architecture has been around since prehistory. But only recently has it been recognised as te...
The 2008 Whitney Biennial is smaller and quieter than in previous years, despite its extension to th...
A mid-career retrospective at Tate Britain is enough to cement the reputation of any artist, or else...
Gathering into gospel order: the Shaker approach to design
A consideration of Shaker-made architecture, furniture and commercial wares - items of remarkable be...
The portrait sculpture of Celia Scott
To open a door and enter a room where there are foregathered a dozen individuals, chiefly architects...
Papunya painting: out of the desert
Art is a central force in Aboriginal culture and a critical political tool. Through an understanding...
At the time of writing, the Olympic torch continues to make its troubled way around the globe, the p...
There is good reason this month in London to revisit Cranach. Last year saw the Courtauld Institute ...
Alexander Rodchenko: Revolution in Photography
Questions about the nature of representation have dogged the medium of photography since its concept...
Book review: The Lost Vanguard: Russian Modernist Architecture 1922-1932
This remarkable survey was synchronised with an exhibition of the same title presented at the Museum...