Nolan's Africa will be the first book on Sidney Nolan written with access to the newly opened Sidney Nolan archives at the National Library of Australia, containing never-before-seen diaries, photographs and personal notes. These will be revealed by Andrew Turley - a...
It used to be the case that, while artists frequently explored the intersections between art and faith, curators and critics thought that, in the modern period, never the twain should meet. That reality has now long ceased to be the case, meaning that periodic reviews...
Aged 21, after just one week, Roger Cecil walked away from his scholarship at the Royal College of Art to make art on his own terms at home in Abertillery. His decision attracted the attention of the BBC, who interviewed members of his family, community, and college...
The female participant in Tino Sehgal’s ‘Kiss’ is stretched out on the floor, head arched, looking back, as her partner moves in slow motion towards her. A mother entering the Great Hall at Blenheim Palace with two boys in their early teens and a young daughter...
Meek Gichugu's No Erotic Them Say, included in this show, traumatised the imagination of Michael Armitage as a child. Armitage was friends with Rik van Rampelberg, whose mother, Chelenge, is a well-known sculptor in Kenya, and who, with her husband, put together a...
In Europe and the US, the period following the Second World War was a time of impassioned artistic activity in which a modernist preoccupation with religion and spirituality was apparent. In particular, the image of the crucified Christ became, for many artists,...
The Chapel at the Yorkshire Sculpture Park is a unique gallery space that was originally used by those privileged to inhabit the Bretton Estate. Named St Bartholomew’s, it was built in 1744 and, since its refurbishment was completed in 2014, is open for everyone as a...
Looking back on her work, Hepworth identified three important sculptural forms to which she continually returned. These were the ‘standing form’, the ‘two forms’ and the ‘closed form’ which she associated with specific physical and emotional experiences, such as a...
To stage a major Rodin exhibition in 2021, the 700th anniversary of the death of Dante is particularly appropriate as Rodin reread the Divine Comedy so often, he kept it tucked in his back pocket, while his monumental, sculpted doors The Gates of Hell, inspired...