Looking at paintings requires an ability to place works in the historical context of the medium. Only then can we see the human significance of the work. It is no good looking inward to brain patterns. That is not where human significance is to be found.
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Andrew Edmunds deals in antique political prints. In this show at the Royal Academy, the works he shows stand up well to contemporary art and its political ambitions. (read more)
Two current exhibitions on opposite sides of the globe present work from two contemporary women artists; each, in her own way, a concrete artist. At RaumX, in north London, Katrina Blanin shows paintings and monoprints. (read more)
Exhibition On Screen returns with Young Picasso, an extraordinary detective story that looks in detail at the elements that drove one small boy from southern Spain to such heights. (read more)
Hippolyte Hentgen at Semiose, Paris (read more)
Piazza Rotunda at Dawn Making Art as Chronicle ona Grimes is a restless city artist. She makes pictures; and in making them she strives to manipulate her medium in new ways. Hence there is always (read more)
I From New York to Captiva, Florida Spreads, is the title Rauschenberg gave to this series of work that occupied him from 1975 through 1983. In the catalogue essay, ‘Roots Spreads,’ Elisa Schaar tells (read more)
Adrian Piper, on Personal Identity, Art and Teaching (read more)
Skill is deployed in many fields of human endeavour Football takes skill. I played football at the same time as did Rodney Marsh, Denis Law and Colin Bell. They were footballers; but I was not. (read more)
Degas: Passion For Perfection uses the film medium to good effect, allowing the viewer to see the artist’s process in action. (read more)
‘Darren Coffield’s ‘Orgreave’ ite Unseen’ is a group show inaugurating the new exhibition premises of Dellasposa in Lancaster Gate. A New Space for Contemporary Art It presently showcases the work of eight emerging contemporary (read more)
Two Russian Tourists visiting Salisbury mages of every kind bombard us daily with information, persuasion and delight. The ‘image stream’ as John Stezaker, the collage artist has called it, is intoxicating in its delivery of (read more)
Pablo Picasso, Guernica, 1937 Science, of course, is immensely important; perhaps even the patterns made by diffraction are important too; even if only as a bi-product of some scientific goings-on. Diffraction patterns, I have recently (read more)
Mary Kelly, Face-to-Face, solo exhibition, installation view, Pippy Houldsworth Gallery, London (2018) ary Kelly’s Face-to-Face exhibition engages its audience with work that is at once intellectual and experiential. One enters the Pippy Holdsworth Gallery on Heddon (read more)
Conceptualist and Romantic Photo-Collagist Provides insight into Depiction: John Stezaker at the Approach (read more)
Matthew Barnes, Hannah Hughes, and Abigail Hunt @ sid motion gallery (read more)
Sarah Sze at Victoria Miro (read more)
resident Donald J Trump is an intriguing phenomenon. Any criticism of his presidency is dismissed as ‘Fake News’. Nigel Farage described him as a silver-back gorilla, as he prowled the set whilst Hilary Clinton spoke (read more)
linton Stanley Jr. has been denied access to his school upon the day of his enrolment because he wears his hair in dread locks. Is this a constraint upon his freedom? (See USA Today) Six (read more)
Sky News Poll oris Johnson’s latest contrarian contribution pulls out of focus some features of our modern democracy. And whilst his popularity is on the rise, within the Tory right, his credentials for being PM (read more)
Mind and Brain henever we think about thinking, we think about mind. It is a common commendation to say of someone that he or she has a good brain. There. In just two sentences we (read more)
hy do drawings matter? Commenting on his education as an artist at The Slade School of Fine Art in the seventies, restaurant critic, tv presenter, foreign correspondent, novelist, and sometime Call My Bluff panellist, A. (read more)
President Macron has selected an image for a new set of French stamps designed by YZ, a Franco-British street artist whose work celebrates strong women. (read more)
Should we risk lives to save cultural heritage? n Tuesday 17th July 2018 Professor Derek Matravers gave his inaugural lecture, ‘Heritage in War: Protecting Cultural Property and Human Harm.’ The lecture served as an introduction (read more)
Jo Volley’s ‘Research Art’ at Sassoon Gallery, Folkestone (read more)
Little has changed in the stand-off between religion and science, we might be tempted to think. (read more)
urther to ‘Philosophy and the God of Bleak Things,’ the abstracts of two new research papers appear in Improbable Research. The papers address the question of whether or not it is possible for God to (read more)
Miyako Narita works in fine art photography, video and music. Her photography was on show in Cork Street last week. Flowers Gallery held the 24th edition of Artist of the Day, a West End exhibition (read more)
Russian Oligarch has written a philosophy book he hopes will turn out to be a best seller, writes Matthew Moore, Media Correspondent in The Times, 28th June 2018. Being an oligarch, the writer of the (read more)
Ed Kienholz, Leda and the Canadian Honker, mixed media assemblage, 1957 d Kienholz is an assemblage artist, an installation artist, and a conceptual artist; which is to say that his work lies somewhere within that (read more)
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