Telegraph.co.uk When I turn up at his London studio, Gary Hume is fast asleep. His assistant lets me in, and soon afterwards he shambles into view, rubbing bloodshot eyes. Wearing paint-splattered jeans, and with thick silver bristles flecking his face, he looks like he has spent a week getting well and truly wasted. In fact, [...]

“I’ve always wanted to be different since I was a kid, and I’ve always been knocked around for it” (eight years later) (2002) by Hiroh Kikai N.Y. Times By the International Center of Photography’s own standards, “Heavy Light: Recent Photography and Video From Japan” feels a bit phoned in. But with 13 artists, most of [...]

N.Y. Times “Roy Lichtenstein: Girls,” at the Gagosian Gallery, presents 12 of Lichtenstein’s early paintings of the female creatures otherwise known as women. Based on cartoons and mostly blond, they are anonymous, beautiful and often unhappily bothered, usually by men. Or, if you like, by boys.

N.Y. Times Daniel Libeskind designed the new Contemporary Jewish Museum, which opened in San Francisco on Sunday. Lobby lights in the museum form four Hebrew letters that spell a word invoking paradise.

Telegraph.co.uk The Royal Academy of Arts Summer Exhibition is now in its 240th year. Sexy Japanese Garden, Vincent Hawkins, acrylic on canvas

N.Y. Times. Twenty-four hours before Art Basel’s invitation-only opening on Tuesday, scores of the art elite gathered, sheeplike, on a wooden ramp at a related event in a cavernous installation space. Word had spread that there was something exciting to see: a dusty old train car whose windows flashed black-and-white images of troubled moments from [...]

Telegraph.co.uk. Looking like a cross between a Second World War gun emplacement and an Inca temple, the Hayward Gallery is quite the most freakish building in central London. Over the years, there have been a string of proposals to tame its wilder excesses. The architect Terry Farrell wanted to give it a post-modern makeover, while [...]