A trip to the magnificent Palladian house Houghton Hall in Norfolk is always a much look forwarded to pleasure. The current exhibition is a major show of works by Henry Moore, in collaboration with the Henry Moore Foundation. For the last few years the current owner...
Just recently Tate Modern was named as Britain’s most popular tourist attraction: 5.9 visitors went to the gallery last year. Sounds impressive, doesn’t it – that is till you do a bit more research. For example, Tate Modern does not figure in the global list of 2018’s...
The London exhibition scene is currently so enamoured with dead avant-gardists that it was a pleasure to see work by the well-established American artist David Salle (b. 1954) who is still with us. Even more of a (guilty) pleasure because the artist concerned is...
The highly anticipated auction of British singer and songwriter George Michael's art collection which captured the spirit of the 1980s and 1990s, has realised £9,264,000 / $12,302,590 / €10,848,145. Proceeds from the sale will be used to continue George's...
At the moment Tate Modern offers retrospective exhibitions of three very different artists – Bonnard (French), Franz West (Austrian) and Dorothea Tanning (American). They have just one thing in common: all of them are dead. It is as if Tate is terrified to offer this...
Back in 1977, in the catalogue for ‘Perceptions of the Spirit in 20th-Century American Art’, theologian John Dillenberger argued that Los Angeles County Museum of Art mounting an exhibition with ‘the subject matter of the spiritual in art represents a major shift in...
I arrived in Madrid, after an early morning flight from Lisbon. I had downloaded Blurred Lines on Netflix for the journey, a documentary about the art world, nothing that revelatory here, the usual stuff, insane amounts of money, Damien Hirst and Jeff Koons touted as...
Phyllida Barlow has long been one of the heroines of the professional contemporary art establishment here in Britain, without making much of an impact elsewhere. This was typified by what happened at the 2018 Venice Biennale, where her work occupied the British...
The late George Michael, the British singer and songwriter, is to auction off his extensive collection of YBA artworks. Michael was an icon of the imaginative spirit of the 1980s and 1990s. Proceeds from this sale will be used to continue George Michael’s...