Whitechapel’s Radical Figures and the Famous Paintings that Inspired Them
In Whitechapel Gallery’s Radical Figures: Painting in the New Millennium, ten of today’s key figurative painters use historical art...
Yasmin Ozkan 18 March 2020
Art Movements
Ulay: Pioneer of Performance Art
The German performance artist Ulay became known as half of the symbiotic duo Marina Abramovic – Ulay. While Abramovic became the big star, Ulay...
Michel Rutten 12 March 2020
Painting of the Week: Pieter Bruegel the Elder, Landscape with the Fall of Icarus
A ploughman is plowing the lands, a shepherd is watching over his sheep, an angler is fishing. The ships are sailing to unknown lands, a partridge is...
Zuzanna Stańska 1 March 2020
Poetry without Motion: Endymion by George Frederick Watts
Is there anything more beautiful than Endymion by the English ‘Symbolist’ artist George Frederick Watts? Through the subtle contrasts of...
Craig Wakerley 21 February 2020
Blue Like Me: The Art of Siona Benjamin
From February 25th to May 31st, 2020 the Gotthelf Art Gallery at the San Diego Center for Jewish Culture will exhibit the unique works of the Indian...
Maya M. Tola 17 February 2020
500 years of Raphael. Exhibitions in 2020
He was sometimes known as Il divino – the divine one – for his expert mastery of space and proportion. And this year, in the 500th anniversary of...
Candy Bedworth 11 February 2020
Walking the Line: Sofia Mitsola’s Women
For Condo London 2020, Pilar Corrias shares its space with Matthew Brown Gallery, LA. Whilst works by Sedrick Chisom largely occupy the...
Guest Profile 7 February 2020
Troy at the British Museum: Myth and Reality
This excellently curated exhibition on Troy at the British Museum in London takes visitors on a journey spanning thousands of years. There’s...
Chris Dobson 28 January 2020
Tutankhamun in London: Treasures of the Golden Pharaoh
For the first time in decades, the treasures of Tutankhamun – who ruled over Egypt from approximately 1334 – 1325 BCE – are on display...
Chris Dobson 20 January 2020
Titian’s The Death of Actaeon (Metamorphoses VIII)
A whistle-stop tour of each of the seven Poesies, which the Renaissance master delivered Philip II of Spain in the 1550s and early 1560s, finally...
Isla Phillips-Ewen 13 January 2020
Picasso Damaged at Tate Modern
On the 28th of December 2019, a man from the public marred the Picasso painting, Bust of a Woman. The painting is on a long-term loan from a private...
Errika Gerakiti 10 January 2020
Simon Hantaï: A Journey to Abstraction
Simon Hantaï was a Franco-Hungarian painter whose work is marked by a reflection on painting techniques. In an evolution that carried his art to...
Maia Heguiaphal 7 January 2020
