At first, before encountering the installations at Tate Modern, it might seem surprising that this 8...
'The Art of Romare Bearden' commenced its run in September 2003 at the National Gallery of Art in Wa...
Archilab: New Experiments in Architecture, Art and the City, 1950-2005
Archilab: New Experiments in Architecture, Art and the City, 1950-2005, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo...
The sacred purpose of art is to invite us to question and to re-examine experience. Art that does no...
Artists' Estates: Reputations in Trust
Artists, like everyone else, die leaving legacies and estates, which they hope can safeguard both th...
Book review: Landscape Design and the Experience of Motion
This important publication, edited by the director of Dumbarton Oaks, Michel Conan, fills a vital ga...
Christo's Gates: a New Yorker reflects
What began in 1979 with a few drawings has finally materialised into a huge 'happening' in New York,...
In the words of Henry Matisse, 'It seemed to me that Turner must have been the link between the acad...
Moving Horizons: The Landscape Architecture of Kathryn Gustafson and Partn...
Today, Kathryn Gustafson is one of the six or seven leading landscape designers in the world. She ha...
The Art Olympics - The Eighth Shanghai Art Fair
Portraying visual gymnastics, Greg Johns' twisting and twining bronze sculpture at th...
William Scott (1913-89) enjoyed a long and highly successful creative life and, in t...
Degas said of himself that he would like to be 'illustrious and unknown', and he succeeded; by 1900 ...
'Raphael: From Urbino to Rome' charts the development of one of the most important artists in the hi...
Raphael - Architect (Raffaello Santi)
The Raphael exhibition at the National Gallery in London does not extol his skills as an architect i...
The Architecture of the British Library at St Pancras
The British Library famously has had a stormy and protracted development, and it is ...
Australian artist Ken Done's third exhibition of paintings is currently showing at the Rebecca Hossa...
The Art Gallery of New South Wales in Sydney recently celebrated the work of Charles Conder, the las...
Artists have only one life - yet Gerald Laing seems to have nine. During one of Laing's previous inc...
A Sense of Place: Three Artists
An artist's relationship with a particular place is a constant in art; Cézanne's paintings of Mont ...
The First Architectural Biennale Beijing 2004
It would not be an exaggeration to claim that the 21st century belongs to Asia - if not to China alo...
Bruce Nauman: Raw Materials – The great Turbine Hall at Tate Modern seems to evoke an Aladdin's ca...
Christopher Dresser 1834-1904: A Design Revolution
With suitable training, it is possible to date a previously unseen artefact within a couple of decad...
The Blue Man: The Portrait of James Milliken by Jean-Etienne Liotard, c.17...
Jean-Etienne Liotard (1702-89) was one of the finest portraitists of the eighteenth century. The rec...
Attention to detail and an open mind are requirements when visiting P.S.1. At once a contemporary ar...
The National Museum of the American Indian
Almost 500 years after the "discovery" of America, at last the original inhabitants are being recogn...
Yoshitomo Nara: From the Depth of my Drawer
Yoshitomo Nara: From the Depth of my Drawer – The title of this exhibition somehow creates nostalg...
Past Things and Present: Jasper Johns since 1983
The first major exhibition in Britain of American Jasper Johns since 1977 at the Hayward Gallery is ...
Russian Landscape in the Age of Tolstoy
Russian Landscape in the Age of Tolstoy, at the National Gallery this summer reveals a seminal perio...
Bill Brandt: A Centenary Retrospective
Two parallel exhibitions of the work of the greatest British 20th century photographer provide a tim...