William Roberts: England at Play
The new Pallant House Gallery was described and reviewed on this website in 2006. The magnificent Wi...
At Frieze Art Fair, Saskia Sassen spoke compellingly about how artists can find potential in underus...
Founded in 1947 by Henri Cartier-Bresson, Robert Capa, George Rodger and David Seymour, Magnum Photo...
Mediators and Messengers: Contemporary Art in the Landscape
The entire agenda for painting about landscape has shifted in the 21st century. Concepts and reading...
The entire agenda for painting about landscape has shifted in the 21st century. Concepts and reading...
Douglas Gordon: Superhumanatural
The film and video artist Douglas Gordon had his first one-man exhibition in Britain at the Lisson G...
The development of architecture specifically for cancer outpatient healthcare has been pioneered in ...
Brice Marden: A Retrospective of Paintings and Drawings
The work of American painter Brice Marden is currently showing in a major retrospective at the Museu...
The Miami Art Fair has surely reached its zenith now that Karen Wright, the formidable Editor of Mod...
Tales of two cities: Berlin, Dresden
These are stirring times for architecture 'watchers' in Germany's two famous cities; Berlin, the cap...
The experience of being deaf was integral to the poignant portraits painted by John Brewster Jr. In ...
What an artist is trying to do for people is bring them closer to something, because of course art i...
A decade ago, setting up radical art studios in the workshops of a largely abandoned military electr...
Simply Artful, Simply Functional, Simply Droog
The word 'Droog' (pronounced 'droach' with a hard 'ch' as in the word 'loch') has a number of relate...
In a well-established American tradition of dedicated artists, David Smith the sculptor came to be l...
Architecture in Scotland 2004-2006: Defining Place
Architecture in Scotland 2004-2006: Defining Place is both a book and an exhibition, the latter pres...
It was only a matter of time before the work of Robert Rauschenberg would again receive a star billi...
The latest press speculation that the National Lottery will be expected to transfer massive funding ...
Treasures of the Ming Dynasty are Unearthed in Jingdezhen
In its recent exhibit of Ming Dynasty porcelains, the Arthur M Sackler Museum of Art and Archaeology...
Hans Holbein the Younger was an artist and painter by profession, and a humanist intellectual by inc...
Kandinsky: The Path to Abstraction
For decades, art history taught us that Kandinsky was the greatest pioneer of abstract art, the arti...
In any season, New York City is a magnet for anyone connected with the arts. On the roster for its f...
In the Playground of a Master Alchemist
Playful and provocative, whimsical and ironic - these are some adjectives that might come to mind wh...
The great 18th-century caricaturist, William Hogarth, who signed himself 'Britophil', caught the moo...
Amedeo Modigliani's (1884-1920) premature death at the age of 35, as a consequence of bohemian exces...
London Fashion Week: Sympathy for the Devil
London Fashion Week coincided very closely with the launch of 'The Devil Wears Prada', starring Mery...
Kerry James Marshall: Along the Way
Finishing its last call on 22 October 2006 was the exhibition entitled 'Along the Way', covering the...
Stirling Prize for Architecture 2006 (RIBA UK)
This month, the architect, Richard Rogers, has attained a summit point in his career in winning the ...
Daniel Buren and his Invention Trajectory
Daniel Buren has had a stimulating and now distinguished continuity in Britain. The arrival of his e...