Category: Art

The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance. – Aristotle

A Matisse Cutout

Matisse Live : Tate Modern

09/06/2014

Here art is about joy, tranquillity and hope. Not all art can be like this, but when it is, it is often at its most beautiful and poignant...

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romanskylov

The Real Deal : M. Patrik Romanskylov [Interview]

06/06/2014

I’m the real deal. I had to add so many ‘Posts’ before the ‘Modern’ to make that distinction clear...

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Kenneth Clark in front of Renoir’s La Baigneuse Blonde (pl.1), c.1933 Private collection

Kenneth Clark : Looking for Civilisation

02/06/2014

Behind the carefully enunciated words, is a man whose whole existence revolves around art, and that each phrase is born of a lifetime’s experience and understanding....

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Rice by freedigitalphotos.netponsulak

Edible Art Movement (Singapore) : Rice

21/05/2014

Edible Art Movement undertake to grow rice in central Singapore....

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hormazd narielwalla, Love Garden no.4

Hormazd Narielwalla

19/05/2014

Hormazd Narielwalla’s work is a celebration of both ancient tailoring techniques, collage and the human form. ...

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Welcome to Iraq : South London Gallery

07/05/2014

The attempts made to create safety and security for the Iraqi home have been staged. Just like the space in South London Gallery, they represent the crippled reality of political impotence....

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Cutting his Way to Freedom: Henri Matisse

18/04/2014

Henri Matisse: The Cut-Outs is a must-see for so many different reasons. The Tate director, Nicholas Serota, claims it will be “the most evocative and compelling show that London has ever seen”....

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Joseph Beuys

Art Belongs to the People : Ashmolean Museum

16/04/2014

A show focussed on a previously overlooked dynamic between the grandfather of the post-war avant garde, Joseph Beuys, and his politically mobilized student at the Dusseldorf Academy: Jörg...

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War: The Exile and the Rock Limpet exhibited 1842

Late Turner : Painting Set Free

18/03/2014

Tate Britain’s Late Turner keeps Turner on the stage rather than focusing on his exit. As co-curator Sam Smiles said, these are “paintings with subjects that have resonance”. ...

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A picture of Elinor Olisa

Dealing With Women in Art

10/03/2014

Women are undoubtedly still having to fight against our traditional patriarchal society, but surely the art world is one that can lead by example?...

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A picture of Ruin Lust by Helen Cobby

Ruin Lust : Tate Britain

05/03/2014

Ruins can point towards futures, potentials, opportunities and constructions of the new, as well as to endings...

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Andy Warhol Ate My Geisha by Darren MacPherson

Darren MacPherson : Interview

18/02/2014

It’s never about the figure, always about the painting. I know some people will view it as erotica but I can’t control that.......

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Garden at Bar by Malcolm Leyland

Malcolm Leyland : Interview

14/02/2014

Taking multiple views of a scene I am attempting to recreate something more real than an isolated image, which is not how we experience things. ...

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Moonlit landscape, circa 1808, Caspar David Friedrich (1774-1840)

A Dialogue with Nature : Courtauld Gallery

11/02/2014

Landscape embodied a mysterious border space to combat the creeping rise of social industrialisation and cultural European realism...

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A poster for Parallax art fair 2014

Hanging Offence: Parallax Art Fair

03/02/2014

Art objects do not have “magical healing” properties either. They cannot make people feel better or worse; informed or misinformed. That is wishful thinking. ...

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Lorenzo Rudolph / Art Stage Singapore : Interview

31/01/2014

People are now paying more attention to the region and more institutions are now working with and supporting Southeast Asian artists. Lorenzo Rudolph talks to Nicola Anthony about Art Stage Singapore...

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Charlotte Posenenske Vierkantrohre Serie D (Square Tubes Series D), 1967-2014 16 elements, hot-dip galvanised sheet steel Overall: 488 x 583 x 50 cm / 192 1/8 x 229 1/2 x 19 3/4 ins

Matter and Memory : Alison Jacques Gallery

30/01/2014

Unassuming yet powerful provocations to our innate memories of what it is to be a human within the matter of the world...

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Hanging Offence : Erarta Zurich

27/01/2014

Without controversy there would be no discussion. Without discussion there would be no mental growth, no change. Therefore it is crucial. Erarta, Zurich. Interview...

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Silver Horse

Chinese New Year Art Show

23/01/2014

From the group that brought you the Big Deal art show comes a very special art show for the Chinese New Year....

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A picture of Leonid Tishkov, Private Moon

Arts Catalyst : Republic of the Moon

17/01/2014

An exhibition about the moon that proposes a Manifesto should by rights fall apart in great steaming chunks of hubris, but it doesn’t, it has value and holds interest by raising lasting questions. ...

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Hanging Offence : David Roberts Art Foundation

13/01/2014

The market attracts more and more accessory and opportunist professions that blur the definition of what art is....

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Family Man by Will Martyr

Hanging Offence : Hay Hill Gallery

26/12/2013

'We don’t exhibit artworks - we showcase artists.' Hay Hill Gallery's Sarah Jones talks to Trebuchet...

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Charlie Billingham's Tender at Ceri Hand Gallery

Charlie Billingham : Tender

23/12/2013

It is this sense of paradoxical delight which pervades the playful tones of Charlie Billingham’s latest installation of paintings, marching uniformly across the red grid of the gallery walls. ...

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Hanging Offence : Large Glass

19/12/2013

What do you dislike most about art? That it can get away with it…!...

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A picture of Fiumano Fine Art Gallery

Hanging Offence : Fiumano Fine Art

16/12/2013

I dislike the notion that you have to be an expert to enjoy art. We all have eyes, a mind and a soul. ...

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NOISE & whispers : GV Art

10/12/2013

Produced partly in response to open call for sound works dealing with the interface between art and science, the show gives an overview of some of the main tendencies in contemporary sound art...

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A picture by Tom De Freston

Tom De Freston : The Charnel House

02/12/2013

De Freston’s is a primarily personal painterly vocabulary of translated - rather than quoted - cultural references...

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A picture of Picasso and Truth by TJ Clark

TJ Clark : Picasso and Truth

20/11/2013

Clark interprets Picasso’s output in the 1920s as a time marking the end of intimacy and proximity – the end of ‘close-ups’ to things one knows in daily life. ...

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Gillian Carnegie Prince 2011–12 © Gillian Carnegie courtesy the artist and Galerie Gisela Capitain, Cologne

Painting Now : Tate Britain

18/11/2013

“The state of painting now” is a tired topic. The premise – that painting has lost its lure because of new media, which in their very newness enable their users to conquer new territory in the...

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The Princely Treasures of Liechtenstein

11/11/2013

My senses did register the location as a slightly jarring combination of old and new, however my impressions were still that of awe and gilded opulence. ...

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