Art & Photographic Exhibitions
Continuities and discontinuities in art
"Encounters, New Art From Old": A Millennium Exhibition at the National Gallery in London
By Paul Stuart, January 24, 2001
The recent Encounters exhibition at the National Gallery in London was a serious celebration of the new millennium. Two years ago, 24 renowned artists from around the world were asked to respond to wo...
George Gittoes' World Diary reinforces media clichés
By John Christian and Richard Phillips, January 10, 2001
World Diary, now exhibiting at the Queensland University of Technology, is a collection of work produced over the last decade by Australian contemporary expressionist George Gittoes. Travelling in mos...
Turner Prize award to Wolfgang Tillmans hailed as shift in focus
By Paul Mitchell, December 28, 2000
This year's £20,000 Turner Prize for Art was awarded for the first time to a photographer—the 34-year old, German-born artist Wolfgang Tillmans.
William Blake: A radical visionary
William Blake: Tate Gallery, London, 9 November - 11 February 2001
By Paul Mitchell, December 1, 2000
The biggest ever exhibition of the works of the British artist, poet and radical William Blake (1757-1827) is currently being held at the Tate Gallery in London. (http://www.tate.org.uk/britain/exhibi...
Political Art—what it mostly isn't, and what it could be
Protest & Survive at the Whitechapel Gallery, London until November 12
By Paul Bond, November 10, 2000
The relationship between art and politics is a subtle and complex one. The process of creation is an act of engagement, in some form or other, with the world around the artist. It need not be a direct...
A response to Millet
Jean-François Millet: Drawn into the Light An exhibit at the Frick Art and Historical Center in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
By Eula Holmes, September 13, 2000
The following letter from a contributor to the WSWS comments on an exhibit of the works of nineteenth century French painter Jean-Francois Millet that was on display in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The e...
Tate Modern: London's new gallery of twentieth century modern art
By Paul Bond, July 4, 2000
Long awaited, the opening of the Tate Modern at the converted Bankside power station on the south bank of the Thames has been hailed as a triumph. The new site houses the Tate's collection of internat...
Relaunching London's Tate Gallery—RePresenting Britain 1500-2000
Mona Hatoum at the Tate Britain, Millbank, London
By Paul Bond, May 12, 2000
The closure for refurbishment of the Tate Gallery on Millbank temporarily deprived London of one of its major collections, as well as one of its better gallery spaces. The Tate (web site: http://www.t...
Exhibition in Bielefield, Germany—Kazimir Malevich: The Later Work
New insights into the work of Russian avant-garde artist
By Sybille Fuchs, May 11, 2000
Showing at the Kunsthalle art museum in Bielefeld, Germany (February 2 through May 21, 2000)
Honoré Daumier, Intimate Contemporary
By Tim Tower, April 25, 2000
A retrospective of 245 lithographs, sketches, sculptures and oil paintings by the nineteenth century Parisian Honoré Daumier is now on view at the Phillips Collection in Washington, DC. Previously ex...
Michelangelo to Matisse—Drawing the figure
A look at 500 years of figure drawing
By Maria Esposito and John Christian, April 17, 2000
A collection of 242 rarely seen figure drawings—from the Renaissance through to the 1940s—was on show earlier in the year at the Art Gallery of New South Wales in Sydney. Some of the 136 a...
Then and now
1900: Art at the Crossroads at the Royal Academy, London
By Paul Bond, March 24, 2000
At the turn of the last century, Paris was host to a giant exhibition designed to display all that was best about the modern world. One of the Exposition Universelle's main attractions was a stunning ...
