16 August 2022
Juan Muñoz: Drawings Centro Botín, Santander – Nico Kos Earle
I approached the Centro Botín from the right – its smooth, pixellating belly cantilevered over the silvery waves.
16 November 2021
Pablo Bronstein: A This-World Vision Of Hell – Revd Jonathan Evens
The work and practice of Pablo Bronstein addresses two common misconceptions. The first concerns art and is to do with the perception that the contemporary art world no longer teaches, values or rewards the traditional skills of drawing.
17 June 2020
Giuseppe Penone Donates Drawings To Pompidou And Philadelphia Museum
Giuseppe Penone (born in 1947) has made two generous gifts of 350 drawings to the Centre Pompidou and a similar number works on paper to the Philadelphia Museum of Art.
28 March 2019
Passionate About Drawing: Roger Malbert Unveils Hand Drawn Action Packed – Clare Henry
For 34 years the wonderful Roger Malbert headed up Hayward Gallery Touring, overseeing literally thousands of contemporary art exhibitions that toured to public galleries & museums outside London & were seen each year by half a million folk in over 45 places. An amazing career, & a hard act to follow.
14 February 2019
Leonardo: 500th Anniversary Marked With UK Tour – Clare Henry
To mark the 500th anniversary of Leonardo’s death a once-in-a-lifetime occasion: a series of his very beautiful drawings displayed simultaneously in 12 cities across the UK
21 August 2017
Drawing As An Encounter Between Artists And Sitters By Edward Lucie-Smith
The latest stage in the National Portrait Gallery’s endeavour to reach out beyond its original remit – paintings and sculptures, often of not much artistic merit in themselves, of worthy Brits – is a rather fascinating show of Old Master portrait drawings, lent from other British national collections.
10 July 2017
Carla Raffinetti: Drawing A Way Out Of The Abyss New Exhibition
It is easy to dismiss the world of the ancestors and appeasing gods in a post-scientific Western society. Less so when burdened with a culture and history as oppressive as that of the white South African. Our shared past cannot simply be ignored, even if we were mere witnesses to it and can nurse a new narrative response to it. In a small selection of works currently on view at Ma-Wah, Continent, by artist Carla Raffinetti, invites us to reflect on the past as we suckle, forging our way out of the abyss.
5 January 2017
Leonardo Da Vinci Export Ban French Government Declare Drawing National Treasure
The French government has put a temporary export bar on a recently uncovered double-sided drawing by Leonardo da Vinci.
Hieronymus Bosch: New Drawing Discovered
A drawing of hell previously attributed to a workshop assistant of Hieronymus Bosch has now been recognised as an authentic work by the master himself according to the experts conducting the Bosch Research and Conservation Project (BRCP) examining the artist’s works worldwide. The drawing has been hidden away in a private collection and will go […]
Exclusive Photo Feature: Jenny Saville Drawing At The Ashmolean Museum
The Ashmolean Museum, Oxford is currently presenting the exhibition Titian to Canaletto: Drawing in Venice, this new show explores how the splendour of Venice and its shimmering light influenced artists, resulting in compelling portraits, atmospheric landscapes of exceptional beauty and sensuous figure studies – and is accompanied by a response from contemporary artist and YBA […]