I first encountered Winslow Homer’s work at the National Gallery in Kehinde Wiley: The Prelude where Wiley included paintings inspired by Homer’s The Herring Net and Lost on the Grand Banks. It is interesting that Wiley chose these images of white North Atlantic...
Last year was the centenary of the birth of Joseph Beuys. Centenary exhibitions included ‘The Inventor of Electricity - Joseph Beuys and the Christian Impulse’ in St. Matthew’s Church, Berlin, which explored how deeply many of the artist's works are rooted in his...
It's such a simple motif - a woman at or by a window - yet, as curator Jennifer Sliwka ably demonstrates in this show, is one that contains hidden depths. This exhibition concisely and clearly maps out the history of this motif, shows us several specific foci of its...
Miguel de Unamuno wrote that, “In Mallorca art becomes reason and reason art.” While Palma is the obvious centre in which to test this maxim, it maybe that other less obvious artistic centres on the island provide the acid test. As Miquel Àngel March has written “the...
From early on in their history, churches have regularly been spaces in which art was displayed and valued. That continued in the modern period, although the extent to which this so became somewhat obscured and the relationship between churches and artists became...
The death of Claes Oldenburg provides an opportunity to reflect on the part that Judson Memorial Church, a Baptist church in New York played at an early stage in his career. André Daughtry, Community Minister of the Arts at Judson Memorial Church, has explained how,...
The image of Essex is currently being questioned, challenged and re-framed by artists and exhibitions in and from Essex. Michael Landy’s large-scale collage entitled ‘The Essex Way’ on part of Firstsite Galleries’ 140m curved wall begins with a sign that reads,...
The adherence of the Singh Twins to the Indian miniature painting tradition has been a way of asserting their right to choose a visual language which is true to their own interests in art and the natural affiliation and pride they feel for their Asian heritage. That...
The word carnival derives from Latin expressions meaning either to remove meat or say farewell to meat. These indicate the Christian roots of carnival which are to be found in the period leading up the fasts of Lent. This period is a time of pre-Lenten indulgence and...