Art & Photographic Exhibitions
American painter Robert Rauschenberg 1925-2008: Avant-garde to Pop
By Lee Parsons, December 29, 2008
Noted American artist Robert Rauschenberg died May 12 this year of heart failure at his home in Captiva, Florida at the age of 82. The passing of this influential artist obliges us to consider his wor...
Uncovering the truth about Trotsky and the Russian Revolution “continues to run my life”
A conversation with the remarkable David King
By David Walsh, December 4, 2008
David King--artist, designer, editor, photohistorian and archivist--is about to publish a new book, Red Star Over Russia, a visual history of the Soviet Union. WSWS arts editor David Walsh recently sp...
UK photographic exhibition: Images of War
November 28, 2008
The WSWS spoke to staff members at the nine galleries and museums presenting the exhibition Memory of Fire: the War of Images and Images of War. The exhibition raised many issues concerning the nature...
Brighton Biennial exhibition focuses on war photography
By Paul Mitchell, November 28, 2008
This year’s Brighton Photo Biennial brought together a number of antiwar artists and photographers in an ambitious exhibition entitled Memory of Fire: the War of Images and Images of War.
The art of Gustave Courbet in his epoch and in ours
By Clare Hurley, October 10, 2008
While artists go in and out of fashion for various reasons, the renewed interest of late in French painter Gustave Courbet (1819–1877) corresponds to a turn in the contemporary art scene toward a mo...
Rodchenko: The impact of revolution and counterrevolution
By Paul Mitchell, April 10, 2008
“Alexander Rodchenko: Revolution in Photography” at the Hayward Gallery, London, until April 27
American painter Edward Hopper in Chicago
By J. Cooper, March 22, 2008
Edward Hopper, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, May 6 through August 19, 2007; National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., September 16, 2007 through January 21, 2008; Art Institute of Chicago, February 16...
Art Treasures in Manchester: 150 years on—Part two
By Robert Stevens, January 24, 2008
Showing through January 27, 2008, at Manchester Art Gallery, Manchester, England.
Art Treasures in Manchester: 150 years on—Part one
By Robert Stevens, January 23, 2008
Showing through January 27, 2008, at Manchester Art Gallery, Manchester, England.
The artist Henry Moore: Power and humanity
Moore at Kew, London exhibition until March 30, 2008
By Paul Mitchell, December 3, 2007
If you are in London in the next few months and have a few pounds in your pocket, spend a day at Kew Botanical Gardens. Amongst the white painted greenhouses you will find 28 large sculptures surround...
Landmark study records visionary architecture from the early years of the Soviet Union
By Tim Tower, October 20, 2007
Lost Vanguard: Soviet Modernist Architecture, 1922-1932—Photographs by Richard Pare, July 18-October 29, 2007, at the Museum of Modern Art, New York City
Enigma and perhaps evasion (or “hide and seek”): the realism of German painter Neo Rauch
By Clare Hurley, October 8, 2007
Neo Rauch at the Met: para—an exhibition of paintings at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, May 22-October 14, 2007, and at the Max Ernst Museum, Brühl, October 28, 2007-March 30, 2008
