For this rolling feature Nico Kos-Earle has chosen 15 international artists working in various mediums to look out for in 2023. 1. Garry Fabian Miller (Top Photo) Suppose we were to picture the field of contemporary fine art photography as an actual terrain. In that...
After a lengthy refurbishment, thanks to £10 million from The Lottery Fund, one of my favourite museums in the UK, has re-opened, and they have done a magnificent job. It is the most significant development in the history of Gainsborough's House since it became a...
The author of the biography Winslow Homer: American Passage, Bill Cross, is an independent scholar and a consultant to art and history museums. He is an author who tells stories of Americans whose works are known but whose lives are not. In 2019, he curated Homer at...
The current Exhibition at Tate Liverpool, "Dark Waters", consists of works by Joseph Mallory William Turner and Lamin Fofana. It highlights Turner's atmospheric style that "often showed the extreme danger of the waters". The Exhibition brings together the works of...
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...
"After reading Kwasi Kwarteng's book 'Ghosts of Empire', I was struck by the spectre of colonialism and imperialism in our macro and micro-environments; so I wanted to investigate what role art and culture play in cracking open this conversation to a broader audience....
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...
Attending the opening of the Venice Biennale was an event I was truly looking forward to. Bored by hours of looking at Art on a screen, not only was I eager to see Art in the flesh again, but I wanted to be reunited with Art friends, collectors and artists, some of...