Antony Gormley (b.1950) is best known for his massive sculpture Angel of the North (1998) and Field ...
The photography divisions of the major American art museums are currently besotted with glamour. The...
Francesca Woodman's photographs have consistently garnered critical attention since her premature de...
AfterShock: Conflict, Violence and Resolution in Contemporary Art
The imagery of violence is commonplace today. Hollywood torture films, videoed beheadings, coverage ...
The imagery of violence is commonplace today. Hollywood torture films, videoed beheadings, coverage ...
Eye-Music: Kandinsky, Klee and all that Jazz
Pallant House's current exhibition celebrates the way in which music sustained and inspired abstract...
Louise Nevelson: The Artist and the Legend
As an artist whose life coincided with the major historical events and artistic movements of the twe...
'Destricted': sex as performance art
The creators of 'Destricted' describe the production as a set of 'explicit films'. The seven short f...
Right on time to contribute to the national discussion on what it means to be British, comes Tate Br...
Sharon Booma's Odes and Intimations of Immortality
The seductive allure of Sharon Booma's paintings defies description. Viewing one of the artist's oil...
Richard Long: Walking and Marking
The National Gallery of Modern Art (NGMA) in Edinburgh, in time for the Edinburgh Festival 2007, is ...
'The Naked Portrait' explores the genre of naked portraiture and brings together many of the most si...
Vienna is a wonderful city at almost any time, but at present it is particularly inviting. In additi...
Panic Attack! Art in the Punk Years
In Britain, punk rock coincided with serious economic recession, mass unemployment, the tail end of ...
French fashion designer Paul Poiret made his mark on fashion history in, typically for him, dramatic...
Documenta 12: 'Documenta as it never was'
'Documenta', the quinquennial international exhibition of contemporary art, is less strong this year...
London's refurbished Royal Festival Hall (RFH) is this month reopened to the public with a star-stud...
Georg Baselitz is a powerful and rebellious painter who admits to being a painter of ...
Leon Kossoff: Drawing from Painting
Leon Kossoff is one of Britain's most significant artists. The National Gallery, London is showing a...
The Prado Museum in Madrid has stolen a march on all other competitors in achieving a major new retr...
The Royal Scottish Academy (RSA) in Edinburgh has got in before the Royal Academy in London with its...
An important retrospective is at the Hayward Gallery, London, until 19 August. The work covers a wid...
Beijing's 'New' Arts Centre: The Capital Museum
Beijing's Capital Museum has emerged from obscurity to become a leading Chinese cultural institution...
In England, during the early 1940s, there had been a real belief that a German attack was imminent, ...
Ettore Sottsass: Work in Progress
'Ettore Sottsass: Work in Progress', now on at the Design Museum in London, where text (apart from c...
Living, Looking, Making: Richard Serra and Others
The Gagosian Gallery in London is currently showing (until 19 May) a key exhibition of contemporary ...
Awakenings: Zen Figure Painting in Medieval Japan
Awakenings: Zen Figure Painting in Medieval Japan, edited by Gregory Levine and Yukio Lippit, accomp...
The Real World of Abstractionism: Arshile Gorky and the Supremacy of the F...
France annually celebrates a country with which it feels an affinity, and 2007 is the year of 'Arm...
The Unknown Monet: Pastels and Drawings
'The Unknown Monet' is the first exhibition devoted to the pastels and drawings of Claude Monet. Eig...