A new documentary about one of America's foremost post WWII artists.
Paula Farmer
Eva Hesse had a short but important and impactful career as one of America’s foremost post-war artists. She was way ahead of her time with a style that was all her own - a post minimalist using mixed media ...
Emily S. MendelSan Francisco,
The fresh and creative Ed Ruscha retrospective at San Francisco’s de Young Museum celebrates the artist’s spare and inventive artwork, which simultaneously memorializes and satirizes the American West. The artist’s attraction to popular culture, Pop-commercial graphics and use ...
Frances WilsonLondon,
A major new retrospective of Georgia O’Keeffe at London’s Tate Modern seeks to challenge standard attitudes to and interpretation of her work as “flowers that look like vaginas”. It was the artist’s husband, amongst others, the photographer Alfred Stieglitz, who ...
Nicholas MarloweLondon,
The inspiration for this show was the National Gallery’s acquisition of a painting by Camille Corot, “the Italian Woman”, from the estate of Lucian Freud after the artist’s death in 2011. It turns out that over 70 works ...
Emily S. MendelSan Francisco,
A splendid exhibition of almost 150 of the finest art from Taiwan’s National Palace Museum in Taipei, half of which have never before been seen in the U.S., now graces San Francisco’s Asian Art Museum and will travel to the ...
Frances WilsonLondon,
Tate Modern, housed in a former 1950s power station on the south bank of the river Thames has, since its opening in 2000, become a visual marker on the London skyline, along with the London Eye, the Gherkin and Big ...
Art & Photography from the Pre-Raphaelites to the Modern Age
Nicholas MarloweLondon,
Pride of place in the first room of this exhibition goes to a vast and very odd painting, "The Disruption Portrait", by the 19th-century artist David Octavius Hill. Twenty-three years in the making, it depicts the ...
Emily S. MendelSan Francisco,
Almost three years from the date of its closing, the greatly enlarged and revitalized SFMOMA is reopening to almost universal oohs and aahs, with of course, a few negatives among a small handful of naysayers. But don’t count ...
Michael McDonaghSan Francisco,
Appearances are deceiving or are they? When we see something for the first time do we really see it and if so can we see it again as if for the first time? Can beauty be pinned down like ...
Nicholas MarloweLondon,
In 1974 Michael Craig-Martin exhibited an ordinary glass of water on a shelf, the type you normally find in bathrooms, and called it "An Oak Tree." That’s what it was, because that's what he said it ...
