Art & Photographic Exhibitions
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
Damien Hirst’s main obsession is wealth, not mortality
By Paul Bond, June 26, 2007
Damien Hirst remains one of the highest-profile of those artists who came to prominence through the vacuous “Brit-Art” movement. Cynical and showy, his work tends to receive column inches ...
Emily Carr: Painter, writer ... symbol
By Lee Parsons, May 14, 2007
Emily Carr: New Perspectives on a Canadian Icon, at the Art Gallery of Ontario (until 20 May 2007), the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts (21 June-23 September 2007), the Glenbow Museum in Calgary, Alberta...
Edouard Manet and France’s ill-fated puppet
By Clare Hurley, January 4, 2007
Manet and the Execution of Maximilian, an exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art, New York City, November 5, 2006-January 29, 2007
No nonsense about Dada
By Clare Hurley, September 18, 2006
Dada, an exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), New York City, June 18—September 11, 2006. MoMA is the exhibition’s final of three venues. Centre Pompidou in Paris (October 5, 2005...
Hitler’s favourite sculptor: New exhibition displays the work of Arno Breker
By Stefan Steinberg, September 6, 2006
A new exhibition in the north German city of Schwerin, Up for discussion: The sculptor Arno Breker, is the first extensive public display of the works of Hitler’s favourite sculptor, Arno Breker...
Interview with Zoe Strauss, photographer in the Whitney Biennial 2006: Day for Night
By Clare Hurley, June 2, 2006
Photographer Zoe Strauss was one of over a hundred artists selected to be in the Whitney Biennial 2006: Day for Night, the major exhibition of American art work. Her straightforward photographs of the...
A barometer of the American cultural zeitgeist: the Whitney Biennial 2006
By Clare Hurley, May 11, 2006
Whitney Biennial 2006: Day for Night, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York City, March 2 through May 28
