James 'Athenian' Stuart, who was born in 1731 and died in 1788, is a far less well-known figure in t...
MAD's Chief Curator Makes An Art of Making Connections
David Revere McFadden's career could function as a case study. With more than 35 years of experience...
Non-refusals in Rubbish: Return of the Rubbish Aesthetic
Refuse has become a key artist's material, as if it ever ceased to be. Today, Colombian artist Doris...
Poets in the Landscape: The Romantic Spirit in British Art
The first works in this excellent exhibition revolve around William Hayley (1745-1820), a poet who t...
Italian Paintings and Drawings: The Royal Collection
The Queen's Gallery, Buckingham Palace has opened on 30 March an exhibition of Italian old master pa...
Sol LeWitt: the Mystic Conceptualist
Dutch video artist Aernout Mik is drawn to images of conflict and war. In his exhibition at Camden A...
Camouflage is not a much-visited field in contemporary art. Yet it is described comprehensively and ...
Jean Baudrillard: Vraisemblablement Mort?
Jean Baudrillard, the renowned French philosopher, passed away in March 2007. Baudrillard was someth...
Andy Goldsworthy: Four Indoor Galleries and Open Air
Leading British land artist Andy Goldsworthy is helping the Yorkshire Sculpture Park mark its 30th a...
Dutch video artist Aernout Mik is drawn to images of conflict and war. In his exhibition at Camden A...
The Deformation Man: David Lynch's Chimerical Universe of Metamorphosis
David Lynch's productions are guided by the theme of metamorphosis. Beginning with his early works, ...
The curators James Lindon and Erin Manns have taken the idea of the 'absentee performer' as a starti...
Apocalypse in Pink: The Work of Irene Barberis.
The role of faith in society and in art, has been addressed in numerous forms since the new mille...
Contemporary Artists Embrace a 'Radical' Tradition
In recent years, traditional handcrafts, particularly knitting, have experienced a boom and drawn a ...
Flying into Denver airport, the Rockies rise high in the distance, a constant reminder of the fronti...
A Secret Service: Art, Compulsion, Concealment
Kurt Schwitters’ experimental practice ranged across sound poetry, drama, collage, typography, pub...
Documenting the Obvious: Picasso and American Art
The story goes that in 1909 the minor American painter Max Weber, a friend of Gertrude and Leo Stein...
Alvar Aalto: Through the Eyes of Shigeru Ban
A retrospective exhibition of the architecture of Alvar Aalto in central London is extremely timely....
Home and Garden: Paintings and Drawings of English Middle Class Urban Dome...
On 20 February 2007, a remarkable exhibition opened at the Geffrye Museum in East London, accompanie...
Anish Kapoor: Artist of Smoke, Air and Space
Anish Kapoor is the man behind one of the most expensive public sculptures in the world - the US$23 ...
The Possibilities of Paint: An Interview with John Zinsser by Cindi Di Mar...
For John Zinsser, painting and paint are more than a process and medium; they are his subjects. Duri...
Anselm Kiefer: Aperiatur Terra
Anselm Kiefer's London exhibition at White Cube, 'Aperiatur Terra', takes a quote from the Book of I...
Gilbert and George: Major Exhibition
Gilbert and George has arrived at Tate Modern (and not at Tate Britain, at their own insistence). Th...
In the darkest hour, there may be light: Works from Damien Hirst's murderm...
A range of symbols spring to mind when thinking about death: the hooded figure wielding a sickle, th...
Sixties Iconoclastic Art and its Representation
The Sixties, arguably, has been the most idealised decade to emerge out of the 20th century. And, mo...
A Singular Artist Brings a Singular Work to South America
Born in Bombay (Mumbai), India, in 1954, sculptor Anish Kapoor has lived in London since his youth. ...
Wrestling with the Angel in the Modern Age
For most of human history, art works were centred on the beliefs of a group and clearly expressed th...
Citizens and Kings: Portraits in the Age of Revolution 1760-1830
The Royal Academy of Arts is currently hosting 'Citizens and Kings: Portraiture in the Age of Revolu...
Steven Holl: America's Best Architect
The USA has lately found and recognised the real successor to Frank Gehry in a new generation. This ...