Still Life: Immortal Apples Eternal Eggs – Hastings Contemporary – Brian Childs
In the multi-tiered hierarchy of academic painting, Still Life has traditionally ranked on the bottom rung, its everyday meat-and-veg celebrations…
30 September 2024
In the multi-tiered hierarchy of academic painting, Still Life has traditionally ranked on the bottom rung, its everyday meat-and-veg celebrations…
30 September 2024
Lit against minimalist greys, the unpainted bronzes tarnished by the process of age gather in the upper rooms of the National Museum dedicated to the Dutch arts for the Asian Bronze, 4,000 Years of Beauty exhibition
30 September 2024
Anne Rothenstein’s paintings and collages have a dreamlike quality, an impenetrable otherness. Her figures, landscapes and intimate interiors are alienated from the viewer by an invisible veil.
20 September 2024
If there is one exhibition you should see in London this autumn, it has to be Van Gogh: Poets and Lovers at the National Gallery…
15 September 2024
The Victorian Radicals featured in this exhibition were attempting to go back to the future, although, at points, they got… Read More
21 August 2024
It’s been more than a hundred years since Mabel Pryde Nicholson’s last show, an injustice belatedly put to right by a fascinating exhibition
30 July 2024
Cedric Morris and Arthur Lett-Haines ran The East Anglian School of Art and Design from their home, Benton End, Hadleigh.
23 July 2024
This summer, a lot of exciting art can be seen in country towns and houses within commuting reach of London. For reasons ranging from high-speed broadband connectivity….
16 July 2024
Yoshitomo Nara’s expansive retrospective at the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, from June 28 to November 3, 2024,
1 July 2024
Ukraine has long held a fascination. Family lore has it that my great-grandfather left Odessa in the 1890s, driven out by pogroms, to settle in the East End of London.
1 July 2024
The exhibition ‘Kasmin’s Camera’ at Lyndsey Ingram Gallery presents an engaging collection of over 100 previously unseen photographs
25 June 2024
‘Lunar Lullabies’ is an exemplary exhibition that showcases inspiration, design, community engagement, and accessibility.
19 June 2024
Mark James is a British filmmaker known for his 1993 documentary FREEZE, the first TV documentary made about that iconic show, as well as his film on Carle Andre, “Upholding the Bricks”, and other films about artists, architects and musicians.
17 June 2024
Japanese art is having its time in the sun, with three British galleries putting on summer shows that illustrate the variety and adaptability of the country’s woodblock printing tradition.
10 June 2024
Mark Rothko was born in Dvinsk, on the main St Petersburg to Warsaw railway line, when the city was part of the Russian Empire…
9 June 2024
Fifty years after The Dinner Party, Judy Chicago has a major retrospective at Serpentine North entitled Revelations. The name of the exhibition is taken from an illuminated manuscript Chicago created in the early 1970s whilst simultaneously working on The Dinner Party.
3 June 2024
Brazilian artist Beatriz Milhazes draws inspiration from the sea and nature of Rio de Janeiro. Maresias, her new exhibition at Tate…
1 June 2024
I was blown away by the Burrell Collection’s new Degas show! Fifty works, half bought by Burrell and half loans, are beautifully installed in the new basement exhibition space.
30 May 2024
I have come to Bellagio for the opening of STANZA, an exhibition drawn from Lake Como by Nancy Cadogan. I have come here for the pigments and I have come here for the lake.
22 May 2024
St Leonards – the town I grew up in – has become a fashionable place, a trend accelerated by the pandemic. Consistent with that is a flourishing art scene…
21 May 2024
This is the ninth edition of Photo London and perhaps the most exciting edition of the Fair to date, showcasing over 120 global exhibitors alongside a series of major special exhibitions.
18 May 2024
Independent, one of New York’s favourite annual art fairs, featured over 172 artists. The invitation-only fair included 15 X 15, curated by founders Elizabeth Dee and Matthew Higgs.
16 May 2024
The title of this show of British women artists from 1520-1920 at Tate Britain is highly apt. ‘Now You See Us’ contains just the right amount of ironic sang-froid
16 May 2024
The most coveted ticket at this year’s Venice Biennale was entry to the Giudecca women’s prison on an island in the lagoon, which dates back to the 13th century and was once a reformatory for prostitutes and unwed mothers.
1 May 2024
Expressionists: Kandinsky, Münter and the Blue Rider, the focus of the current exhibition at Tate Modern, demonstrates the breadth of the group’s engagement in terms of transnational relationships
29 April 2024
Adriano Pedrosa, Curator of the 60th Venice Biennale, chose the controversial phrase Stranieri Ovunque (Foreigners Everywhere).
24 April 2024
Brazilian curator Adriano Pedrosa proposed the title for the 60th Edition of La Biennale di Venezia. ‘Foreigners Everywhere’.
23 April 2024
The Central Pavilion at the Venice Biennale’s 60th edition is led by curator Adriano Pedrosa, who uses the theme “Stranieri Ovunque – Foreigners Everywhere,”
22 April 2024
Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio, as both a revolutionary artist and a violent individual in a violent age, divides eras and opinions.
22 April 2024
Yinka Shonibare Suspended States Serpentine Galleries: When I was a small child – many millennia ago – much of the world map was pink.
21 April 2024
Houghton Hall, Norfolk, is one of the most beautiful places in the world for a sculpture park. The 18th-century estate gleams in perfect symmetry
14 April 2024
As much seems to divide the photographers Juliet Margaret Cameron and Francesca Woodman as unites them.
2 April 2024