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 [...]

The retrospective, one of the most exhaustive and ambitious shows on Picasso to date, brings together over 400 works from this singular collection. The pieces, which came from the artist’s personal collection, are Picasso’s own “picassos” – works he was determined never to relinquish. Paintings, sculptures, ceramics, drawings, etchings, notebooks and a selection of 20 [...]

At first glance it seems a straightforward if animated photograph of Israeli soldiers in a mess hall: uniformed young men chatting, pouring, laughing, smoking at a set of utilitarian tables bearing metal bowls and nondescript food. But it doesn’t take long to sense that the scene is spiritually and sexually charged. The men are a [...]

The Museum of Modern Art in New York began collecting photography in the 1930s, but in the UK the Tate largely ignored the medium until 2003 when it presented Cruel and Tender, which looked at realism in photography. Next week sees the opening of Street & Studio, Tate Modern’s second major historical photographic show. Made [...]

Without horses, where would we be? Trousers might never have become fashionable. The violin might never have come into existence. The Aztecs might have thrived another few centuries. The Industrial Revolution might have sputtered out before its time. No one would have to get off his high horse, and no political race would have a [...]

In June 1902, the great French sculptor Auguste Rodin was passing through Vienna, en route from Prague. While in town, he accepted an invitation to visit the current exhibition of the Vienna Secession movement, and to meet the artist whose monumental work, the Beethoven Frieze, was at the heart of the display: Gustav Klimt. The [...]

Installation view of “Action/Abstraction: Pollock, de Kooning, and American Art, 1940-1976” at the Jewish Museum. Art is long, art criticism is often very, very brief, its Internet afterlife notwithstanding. Its viability relies on a mixture of prose style, sound-bite-able concepts, timing and its ability to clarify visual experience. Naming a major art movement can also [...]