Purely Elemental: Wood Craft as Fine Art

The history of turned wood objects is long and varied, changing from functional craft to art to hobb...

Peter Spens: Floating London, Paintings and Works on Paper

The exhibition running at the Guildhall Art Gallery in the City of London from 30 March-5 June 2006 ...

In the Kingdom of the Gods and Goddesses

In 1950, Jawaharlal Nehru, India's first Prime Minister, invited one of the greatest proponents of M...

A View of Africa, From the Inside Out

Africa is a vast region that now comprises more than 50 nations. Created through a long history of e...

Stillness in Motion: The Photographs of Fan Ho

The small but intriguing selection of photographs by Chinese photographer and filmmaker Fan Ho, on v...

Troubled Waters: Kara Walker's Visual Epiphanies

Kara Walker functions as both subject and curator of a current exhibit at New York's Metropolitan Mu...

Shaping the American Landscape: Church, Homer and Moran

During the second half of the 19th century, three artists played pivotal roles in shaping how Americ...

Jon Schueler: A Painter of Our Time

John Bellany's (b.1942) paintings are among the most confrontational humanistic paintings produced i...

Modernism: Designing a New World, 1914-1939

The catalogue promotion for this remarkable exhibition of early 20th-century design pioneers suggest...

Dada Revisited for the 21st Century

It is not often that an art exhibition ascends to the condition of a total artwork in itself, and at...

The Terribly Human Tomi Ungerer

Today, Tomi Ungerer is among Europe's best-known commercial artists but has been largely forgotten ...

Albers & Moholy-Nagy: From the Bauhaus to the New World

Two of the great practitioner-teachers of 20th-century art, Josef Albers and L...

Gothic Nightmares: Fuseli, Blake and the Romantic Imagination

What fascinates us in an artwork? One answer to this question is content that conveys a sense of har...

Fashion in Colors

Costume is usually viewed through a frame of fashion: a piece of clothing is set against its context...

The Istanbul Modern Art Museum

The Istanbul Modern can be hard to find. It is still new enough that taxi drivers are not quite sure...

Edvard Munch: The Modern Life of the Soul

'I was walking along the road with two friends. The sun set. I felt a tinge of melancholy. Suddenly ...

Martin Kippenberger

Kippenberger's restless stylistic movements resist the monumentality that a retrospective can impart...

Americans in Paris, 1860-1900

Paris, at the end of the 19th century, encompassed European tradition and the avant-garde. Having su...

Tom Hunter, Living in Hell and Other Stories

Since 1997, Tom Hunter has turned his camera on his surrounding neighbourhood of Hackney, showing em...

The Trees for the Wood - the Enigmatic Genius of Jacob van Ruisdael

There is major significance in Seymour Slive's excellent exhibition currently showing in the Sackler...

On the Trail of Wise Fools and Simpletons in the Himalayas

Those unfamiliar with Tantric Siddhas and Himalayan art, culture and religion may be surprised to le...

Brussels Dispatch: A Review of Some Small and Unusual Spaces for Art

Built in 1663, the Brigittine Chapel has survived a bombardment that turned its surroundings to ashe...

Moonrise over Europe: JC Dahl and Romantic Landscape

'This compact and appealing exhibition is designed to celebrate The Barber Institute's acquisition o...

Asian Traffic: Magnetism - Suspension

Shanghai is an international city known for its economic prowess and cosmopolitan culture. There is ...