The Art and Christianity Awards are one of the more positive legacies of the new millennium, being set up in 2003 to draw attention to the abundance of creative responses to the Year 2000. Although the first round of awards only invited entries from churches and...
The latest in an excellent series of significant exhibitions at the British Museum - much better than the smaller ones the B.M. does in the cramped spaces of what used to be the reading rooms of the British Library - is about the legendary city of Troy, long besieged...
The Goss-Michael Foundation located in Dallas Texas is presenting Nothing New Under The Sun, a showcase of eight new works by the South African artist Ryan Hewett in association with Unit London. Hewett’s exhibition features work created especially for the foundation...
In 1998 the first sales of the Dora Maar collection were put on sale in Paris. They revealed a life dedicated to photography, painting and poetry, executed in the city’s avant-garde milieu of the 1930s. Like many female artists, she is best known for her biography as...
I increasingly get the feeling that the two London Tates are struggling to know what to do with the huge central spaces that are a characteristic feature of both buildings. The new show at Tate Britain – Steve McQueen: Year 3 – is symptomatic of this, though it is in...
As the nation plunges towards Brexit, and, as the official galleries - specifically the two big London Tates - grow more and more self-satisfied and increasingly inclined to offer displays of civic virtue as substitutes for anything you can actually describe as art,...
The world-renowned photographer Terry O’Neill has passed away following a long battle with prostate cancer; He was 81 years old. He was warm, friendly, charming and humble. Always happy to chat with young upcoming photographers - CD Originally he wanted to be a jazz...
Two new exhibitions of work by the highly regarded painter Victor Willing (1928-1988) are currently on display at Hastings Contemporary and the Turps Gallery in S.E. London. The retrospective in Hastings is the first significant show of his work since his untimely...
Christopher Clack says; I have been making images for as long as I can remember, and for as long as I can remember there has always been an element of religious imagery or content in the work I have produced. Why this should be, I do not really know. What I do know is...