Art & Photographic Exhibitions
The painter Jacob Lawrence
By Clare Hurley, May 31, 2002
Over the Line: The Art and Life of Jacob Lawrence , an exhibition at the Phillips Collection, Washington, DC, May 27-August 19, 2001; Whitney Museum of American Art, November 8, 2001-February 3, 2002;...
Beautiful and fascinating—but not urgent?
Monks and Merchants: Silk Road Treasures at the Asia Society in New York
By Sandy English, January 25, 2002
Monks and Merchants: Silk Road Treasures from Northwest China, Gansu and Ningxia, 4th-7th Century at the Asia Society, New York City, November 17—January 6, 2002
Apologetics for National Socialist aesthetics and politics
Taking Positions: Figurative Sculpture and the Third Reich
By Stefan Steinberg and Barbara Slaughter, January 11, 2002
Taking Positions: Figurative Sculpture and the Third Reich is an exhibition of sculptures most of which were completed by German artists during the period of the Nazi regime (1933-45). The exhibition ...
A major exhibition on the Spanish Civil War
"Dreams and Nightmares"—at the Imperial War Museum, London, until April 28, 2002
By Vicky Short, January 3, 2002
The Spanish Civil War, which began in 1936, inspired a generation of workers, artists and intellectuals. The struggle to defend republican Spain against the fascist phalange headed by General Francisc...
A desire for what?
"Surrealism: Desire Unbound"— An exhibition at Tate Modern, London until 1 January 2002
November 30, 2001
Surrealism, as an artistic movement, was concerned with the nature of the unconscious and its connection with creation. The surrealists sought to break the deadlock of conventional thinking: their exp...
Pessimism and the historical painter: Leon Golub
By Anne Lafond and Sandy English, October 2, 2001
Leon Golub: Echoes of the Real: A Retrospective of the Artist’s Work from 1950-2000 recently at the Brooklyn Museum of Art and While the Crime is Blazing: Paintings and Drawings of Leon Golub, 1...
The rehabilitation of British artist Stanley Spencer
By Paul Mitchell, September 20, 2001
The work of British artist Stanley Spencer (1891-1959) has undergone a resurgence of interest in the art world recently. Long viewed by some as a provincial joke, several artists and critics now claim...
Papunya Tula--the birthplace of contemporary Australian Aboriginal art
By Susan Allan, August 24, 2001
The groundbreaking Papunya Tula, Genesis and Genius exhibition at the Art Gallery of New South Wales was the first major retrospective by artists from Papunya in Australia’s Western Desert. Cons...
The Last of the Angry Penguins
An exhibition in memory of Australian painter John Perceval
By John Christian, June 16, 2001
The Last of the Angry Penguins is the title of a small tribute exhibition of 23 paintings, pastels and drawings by John Perceval at the Wagner Gallery in Sydney. The show provided a rare chance to stu...
Inside Out—new Chinese art and the political conditions that produced it
By Maria Esposito, May 14, 2001
Inside Out: New Chinese Art is an extraordinary collection of ink paintings, sculptures, photographs, videos, installations and performance art by contemporary Chinese artists from the People's Republ...
Goya's private albums: A unique exhibition at the Hayward Gallery, London
By Paul Stuart, May 2, 2001
Pablo Picasso once described Francisco Goya (1746-1828) as the most successful artist in poetically combining art with politics. This exhibition, the first of its kind, confirms this assessment and th...
World Without End: Photography and the 20th Century
Some rare photographs but a flawed approach
By Richard Phillips, March 26, 2001
World Without End: Photography and the 20th Century, a recently concluded exhibition of 200 works by 42 photographers at the Art Gallery of New South Wales (AGNSW), was billed as the largest photograp...
