Visual arts
theartsdesk in Austin, Texas: The Library with EverythingSunday, 28 April 2013
April in Austin means South by South West is over, but the city’s permanent attractions remain: Torchy’s tacos, bats under Congress bridge, grackles (the most in-your-face birds ever) as well several cultural destinations on the University of Texas’... Read more... |
Turner Prize 2013 shortlist: Is David Shrigley an artist? and other thoughtsThursday, 25 April 2013
“Is David Shrigley an artist?,” a journalist asked at Tate Britain’s Turner Prize shortlist announcement this morning. Well, many would say so, though The Arts Desk critic Judith Flanders had her own reservations after seeing his Hayward... Read more... |
Saloua Raouda Choucair, Tate ModernFriday, 19 April 2013
Saloua Raouda Choucair began her career as a painter, initially studying under Lebanon’s two leading landscape artists, Mustafa Farroukh and Omar Onsi. In the late 1940s, she trained in the studio of Fernande Léger while studying at the Ecole des... Read more... |
Deutsche Börse Photography Prize 2013, Photographers' GalleryTuesday, 16 April 2013Shortlisted artists for this year's photography prize are: AdamBroomberg & Oliver Chanarin, Mishka Henner, Chris Killip and Cristina DeMiddel Until 30 June http://bit.ly/MZGgSK Read more... |
Rachel Whiteread: Detached, Gagosian GalleryTuesday, 16 April 2013
When I visited Rachel Whiteread two years ago, there were two old sheds gathering dust in her basement as though waiting to be loved and put to use. Why was she cluttering up her studio with such large and intrusive objects, I wondered? “Things... Read more... |
Rachel Whiteread: Detached, Gagosian GalleryThursday, 11 April 2013New sculpture by the British artist. Until 25 May http://bit. ly/14PHluO Read more... |
Jacob Epstein: Portraits, National Portrait GalleryMonday, 08 April 2013
“I don’t like the family Stein; There is Gert, there is Ep and there’s Ein; Gert’s Poems are bunk, Ep’s statues are punk, And nobody understands Ein” (Anon).Jacob Epstein (1880-1959) did indeed sculpt Albert Einstein when the physicist was briefly... Read more... |
theartsdesk in Amsterdam: Reopening of the RijksmuseumSunday, 07 April 2013
The Rijksmuseum is reopening after 10 years. What took it so long? Escalating costs, contractual problems, a protracted battle with the cycling lobby (this is Amsterdam, after all). I’m sure there’s more, but one whole decade’s worth? It’s a long... Read more... |
High Art of the Low Countries, BBC FourFriday, 05 April 2013
There was a time when the art of the Low Countries was considered to be very lowly and base indeed. It was the high art of Italy that counted if you were a person of culture and breeding. Not for you the carousing common folk of Jan Steen, or those... Read more... |
Ilya and Emilia Kabakov: The Happiest Man, Ambika P3Sunday, 31 March 2013
Ambika P3 is a windowless, cavernous basement once used to test concrete for huge building projects – the Channel Tunnel among them – now ingeniously recycled as a kunsthalle gallery / performance space. Thus it is strikingly appropriate for... Read more... |
theartsdesk in Florence: The Springtime of the RenaissanceSunday, 31 March 2013
It’s an instinct of curators to put the pieces back together, to reintroduce works of art which time and market forces have scattered to the four winds. In recent memory, exhibitions have reunited in one space all of Monet’s haystacks, Cézanne’s... Read more... |
Gallery: The Springtime of the RenaissanceSunday, 31 March 2013
The images in this gallery illustrate some of the links and juxtapositions made in The Springtime of the Renaissance. Classical statues which influenced Florentine artists, works reunited for the first time in centuries, sculptural forms reproduced... Read more... |
