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“Just when the withering economy is shrinking art, antiques and design sales, there is a rise in attendance and interest in historic homes and artist sites in both the US and the UK. “There is definitely something in the air,
“Visitors to the German capital over recent days may well have felt transported back to the heady weeks following the fall of the Berlin Wall. Then, amid icy winds, blizzards and an inimitable spirit of euphoria, 117 artists from 21
From John Kelly… It could be an advertisement for some super blue detergent, but the Baie des Anges on the Côte d’Azur is not chemically enhanced. The sea really is the colour of the cloudless sky. I feel summer bliss
Ensor’s Skeletons Fighting Over a Pickled Herring (1891), at MoMA “The art gods cooked up something special for James Ensor. This avant-garde painter’s decisive moment came in a salon show in Brussels in 1887 (the same year the gods had
Sand art by Andres Amador
“With a normal photograph, you look at the scene you want to record, check your light meter (or more typically, let the camera do it), then press the shutter release. With these pictures, David Malin says, the process is back
CHRISTOPH GRUNENBERG In 1951 you did a number of paintings with random arrangements of bright colours. These works, in particular Colors for a Large Wall (1951), were a radical departure from your previous, mostly figurative paintings and from the collages
“When Clement Greenberg developed his canonical account of American-style painting, he identified Jackson Pollock and the other Abstract Expressionists as heirs to early twentieth-century French modernism. China has very distinguished modernists, the great Wu Guangzhong, who was born in 1919,
Scientific police photographs are very rarely presented to the public, remaining stored for many years in confidential files because they transgress taboos when their subjects are violent death and crime.
Strasser & Lysssiotis, A Long Road, 2009. lithograph and acrylic on Arches paper 94 x 119cm, edition of 5 “An artists’ book, paintings and works on paper, collaboratively produced by Theo Strasser and Peter Lyssiotis, present a reflection of political