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Why Being an Artist is not a Job

08/05/2018

Working away in the studio is play with consequences not a job, thank goodness!...

Curves versus Angles

03/05/2018

Arne Jacobsen’s St Catherine’s College Oxford, Refectory dropcap style=”font-size:100px;color:#992211;S/dropcaphould we prefer soft voluptuous curves or hard aggressive angles? It all...

Construct and (Various) Disasters of Democracy

03/05/2018

Installation shot, Construct and (Various) Disasters of Democracy Galerie Dukan, Leipzig, Germany dropcap style=”font-size:100px;color:#992211;D/dropcapuncan Wylie is a prodigious painter who,...

Geoff Diego Litherland, Painter of Another Present

01/05/2018

Explore human hopes and technological power while worrying away at the fragility of life on Earth, welcome to the worlds of Geoff Diego Litherland. ...

Beat Zoderer’s Art Concret at Semiose, Paris

28/04/2018

dropcap style=”font-size:100px;color:#992211;S/dropcapwiss concrete artist, Beat Zoderer shows his work ‘Dans quel Mesure,’ at Semiose, Paris. Being Swiss gives this younger...

Phillip Allen Body & Mind

24/04/2018

Treading the line between the desire to create recognisable forms with a more strictly modernist painting approach, Phillip Allen has a wonderfully impure painterly style. ...

DaliParis, re-opens with Dali the Sculptor at its centre

19/04/2018

dropcap style=”font-size:100px;color:#992211;T/dropcaphere are two good reasons for taking a fresh look at the work of Salvador Dalí. The first is that Matthew Collings, in his insightful...

The Idea of newness is an essential part of the function of art in modern times but what does that mean and how does newness form and change? Are we all prone to long for a past that never was or a...

What Dreams May Come?

13/04/2018

We all dream and since nobody will listen to us explain them it may be the most neglected area of our lives!...

Aspects of Modernism & William Morris

13/04/2018

As part of the exploration of the forming of Modernism Natalie Andrews considers the influence of William Morris via an object in the V&A....

The Feminine in the Feminist: Women take their Life-Making skills into Contemporary Art

12/04/2018

Camille and Nikita Kravtsov, UFO Revolution, 2018, (detail), drawing, print and embroidery dropcap style=”font-size:100px;color:#992211;A/dropcapt art schools in the sixties and seventies, American...

Becoming of the Avant-Garde

10/04/2018

Modernism and the avant-garde is the theme of the second part of Natalie Andrews exploration of the epoch and its influence on our time....

Simon Bill, as Presented and in Aspect

06/04/2018

Simon Bill is a polymath and deserves a long hard look from a curious audience his work probes perception itself. ...

The Quietude of Some Black and Cream/White Pictures in Paris

04/04/2018

Lee Bae, Landscape (detail) dropcap style=”font-size:100px;color:#992211;M/dropcapinimal Art, it has been argued, is the dying breath of abstraction, and painting more generally (Winters, 2018)....

Max Klinger & The Freudian Unconscious

03/04/2018

Max Klinger is a thought provoking artist who was influential on early modernism his work not only helps to explain complex theories but also helped to form them!...

Damien Meade, Duality, Beginnings & Endings

30/03/2018

Damien Meade is an Irish born painter working in oils, he uses unfinished clay sculptures to give his work a sense of being dynamically in process....

Anselm Kiefer, God, Death, and Seven Tons of Lead

29/03/2018

This exhibition comprises mainly large-scale paintings that are flooded with molten lead....

Understanding The Modern, it happened in the past!

27/03/2018

The 19th century is where our ideas of the modern come from so what can that time say to us?...

Do We Understand Modernism? We Better!

27/02/2018

Modernism is in the news because as it turns out not that many people ever really got it! Since we have long since left this epoch behind and since its exerts such an influence maybe we should make...

Study Proves People Congeal Over Time!

20/02/2018

A study from NASA has shocked people by showing that life and education contribute to the death of creativity in children, creativity which is essential to our race, and is difficult to win back once...

Cynical Realism & The New Chinese Middle Class

20/02/2018

Cynical Chinese art makes liberal westerners feel good but what will we make of the new proud Chinese middle class?...

China/Art/Soft Power: speak softly and carry a big stick!

13/02/2018

China is developing its soft power portfolio; state propaganda, Confucius institutes, strategic investment and of course, art. ...

‘Black Book’ Gideon Rubin at Freud Museum

12/02/2018

Gideon Rubin's show 'Black Book' recalls the horror of the Nazi machine and helps us to reflect on that horror in the home of Sigmund Freud who managed to survive occupation. ...

In Search of Selfhood: Eddie Peake at White Cube

09/02/2018

Artist Eddie Peake's autobiographical new exhibition at White Cube....

Sonia Boyce and a Meta Criticism of the Critics

06/02/2018

The Manchester Art museum and the disappearing/reappearing Nymphs, do we benefit from seeing them? or are we perpetuating tired tropes? ...

Ritratto di Giovane Donna (detail), Amedeo Modigliani

Poetics of the Disquiet: Modern Italian Art at the Estorick Collection

02/02/2018

The Estorick Collection showcases Italy's great modern painters....

Hayward Gallery reopens with Andreas Gursky exhibition

30/01/2018

The Hayward is re-opening and showing the work of German photographer Andreas Gursky, this promises to be an impressive array of relevant and compelling images....

London Arts Fair 2018 at the Islington Business Centre

18/01/2018

Painting, sculpture, photography, multimedia and dialogue in the heart of Islington, London...

How Did China Tame The Market?

16/01/2018

To fully understand the impact of China in the modern world its important to have an idea of how the self styled communist state extricated the free market from democracy....