Black Grape by Dick Evans at Newspeak 2, Saatchi Gallery The British Art Show isn’t just any old art exhibition; it’s an event of seismic significance for the visual arts in this country. Well, that’s what the organisers hope, anyway. Staged at five-year intervals, it is supposed to present an overview of how art has [...]
French painter Paul Gauguin gets his first major exhibition in Britain for over 50 years this week, and early reviews suggest it was worth the wait. A woman walks by French artist Paul Gauguin’s artwork ‘Aha oe Feii? (What! Are You Jealous?)’, at the Gauguin: Maker of Myth exhibition, at the Tate Modern, in London. [...]
JMW Turner, Sun Setting over a Lake circa 1840 It will be interesting to see whether Tate Britain’s new director, Penelope Curtis, can do anything about the curse of the Clore Gallery. This museum-within-a-museum housing Turner’s bequest to the nation of 300 oil paintings and more than 20,000 works on paper opened in 1987 to [...]
Manuel Acevedo’s “WTC: Tropism,” one of the artist’s concepts for ground zero, on view at the Bronx River Art Center. For nearly 25 years, the Bronx River Art Center has been organizing exhibitions, art classes and public school programs out of a funky, century-old building in a battered neighborhood called West Farms. Beginning in September, [...]
Leonardo DaVinci, La Belle Ferroniere Leonardo da Vinci: Painter At The Court Of Milan is said by the gallery to be the most complete display of Leonardo’s rare surviving paintings ever held. The Trafalgar Square gallery is borrowing works including La Belle Ferroniere from the Louvre museum in Paris, the Madonna Litta (also known as [...]
Workers hang a painting as they prepare the exhibition “Klee meets Picasso” at the “Zentrum Paul Klee” museum in Bern. The exhibition of works by Swiss artist Paul Klee and Spanish artist Pablo Picasso will open on June 6 and run until September 26 Two masters, four themes, eight pictures. Poetry here, drama there. Irony [...]
A member of the public looks at The Charnel House as part of the Picasso: Peace And Freedom exhibition. Lenin used the term “useful idiots” to describe Western liberals who turned a blind eye to the true nature of totalitarianism – and few were more idiotic or more useful to the Soviet cause than Pablo [...]