This is a new series by Artist/historian James Payne demystifying great works of art. We will be adding to this page as the content is produced. Subscribe To Great Artworks Explained Here Sometimes, a Landscape painting is anything but a painting of a landscape. This...
When an exhibition celebrating 800 years of spirit and endeavour at Salisbury Cathedral has to be installed against the clock and then its launch is halted by the COVID-19 lockdown, first emotions are primarily of devastation. The exhibition lives anew, to bring hope...
The Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh and the Serpentine Galleries, have been jointly awarded a transformational Grant of £150,000 for their collaborative work on ecology. 32° East (Ugandan Arts Trust), Beit Ha'Gefen, the International Curator's Forum, Liverpool...
The reality of COVID19 started to appear more on my radar towards the beginning of March. By the time the Armory Show happened with galleries flying in from different parts of the world to showcase artist's work, the overall atmosphere at the fair felt clearly...
Ben Lewis’s book The Last Leonardo, subtitled ‘A Masterpiece, A Mystery and the Dirty World of Art’, has now appeared in paperback after its publication in hardcover last year. It makes a riveting read, no less so because the painting itself, an image of Christ as the...
Here's a handsome new volume, well-illustrated, but more social history than art book, which tells of the emergence of London as an international art scene, during the years that followed World War II. Its subtitle is Art and Culture in the 1960s. Its weakness, if it...
Germano Celant (1940-2020) the Italian art historian, critic and curator who coined the term " Arte Povera " (poor art) in 1967 has died from complications due to the COVID19 virus, age 80. The Italian artists were going for a humanism in their art - GC Celant...
Dearly beloved, we are all unfortunately still gathered here on this unexpected Summer holiday to a destination unknown. Beyond attempting survival via staying put in our abodes via an hour's exercise at the kind of distance needed to ensure you can still exercise...
If this isn't your first time visiting this series, thank you for your returning custom. You may know that it starts with an introduction, which salvages every word from the catacombs of my daily confusion, which isn't becoming any easier. In order to dodge dishing...