Art & Photographic Exhibitions
Science, art or carnival sideshow?
The "Human Body Worlds" exhibit in Cologne
By Dietmar Henning, March 23, 2000
The “Human Body Worlds” exhibit has been on display since February 12 at Cologne's Heumarkt market square, where it is scheduled to run until July 31. The exhibit was first presented in Ja...
A vital and challenging exhibition
Viva la Vida —Frida Kahlo, Diego Rivera and Mexican Modernism City Gallery, Wellington, New Zealand 29 January-30 April
By John Braddock, March 20, 2000
A significant exhibition of twentieth century Mexican art, focusing on the work of Diego Rivera and his wife Frida Kahlo is currently showing at the City Art Gallery in Wellington, as part of the New ...
Walker Evans and photography
By David Walsh, March 3, 2000
Walker Evans, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, February 1-May 14; the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, June 2-September 12, 2000; and the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, December 17, 2000-Ma...
Striking visions of the First World War
CRW Nevinson: The Twentieth Century
January 5, 2000
An exhibition at the Imperial War Museum, London until January 30, 2000, then at the Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, Connecticut, February 20 to May 7
The rehabilitation of Gustav Gründgens
Gustav Gründgens —A German Career: an exhibition at the Berlin Staatsbibliothek
By Stefan Steinberg, December 29, 1999
December 22 marked the one hundredth anniversary of the birth of the German actor and theatre director Gustav Gründgens, a flamboyant radical in the 1920s and early 1930s, who became one of the Hitle...
A brave New World —not that you'd know it
Amazons of the avant-garde—an exhibition at the Royal Academy, London until February 6
By Paul Bond, December 13, 1999
In the early years of this century, the Russian art world raced through a rapid self-education in the latest developments in culture. Russian artists travelled abroad, particularly to centres like Par...
The humanity of Van Dyck
By Paul Mitchell, December 1, 1999
“Van Dyck 1599-1641” , London Royal Academy of Arts, 11 September-10 December
A superb exhibit on militarism
Camouflage: An exhibition of paintings and etchings by Chandraguptha Thenuwara
By Darshana Medis, November 19, 1999
A series of paintings and etchings by a noted Sri Lankan artist, Chandraguptha Thenuwara, was exhibited recently at the Vibhavi Academy of Fine Arts (VAFA Gallery), in Ethulkotte, a suburb of Colombo,...
Henri Cartier-Bresson: From a higher reality to a respect for reality
By Stuart Nolan and Barbara Slaughter, November 5, 1999
Henri Cartier-Bresson is an outstanding representative of a generation of artists who transformed photography into a recognised art form.
Two master photographers from Japan
By Richard Phillips, October 9, 1999
Exhibitions of pre-World War II Japanese photography are rarely held in western countries. Visual arts courses generally ignore the period, focussing almost entirely on European and American photograp...
Anger and form in the work of Ben Shahn
By Joanne Laurier, September 3, 1999
Common Man, Mythic Vision: The Paintings of Ben Shahn, a retrospective organized by the Jewish Museum in New York City, is now on display at its third and final location, the Detroit Institute of Arts...
Diego Rivera's artistic mastery
By Tim Tower, September 2, 1999
The exhibition, Diego Rivera, Art and Revolution, previously on display in Cleveland and Los Angeles, will show in Houston between September 19 and November 28, before concluding its tour in Mexico Ci...
