I Look At This Painting Everyday
For a few years now, I’ve had a postcard of this painting tacked to my study wall. It’s called Pennsylvania coal... View Article
For a few years now, I’ve had a postcard of this painting tacked to my study wall. It’s called Pennsylvania coal... View Article
This scene shows a group of friends in the bar of the Moulin Rouge. The figures socialise against a backdrop... View Article
How one work of art can give rise to another I’ve admired this painting for more than 20 years. I... View Article
Cultural encyclopedia or appropriated plunder? I recently took a trip to Athens in Greece. Whilst I was there I visited... View Article
In the Guggenheim, New York, people are throwing down a confetti of paper flyers from the famous curved balconies of... View Article
The strange relationship between museum objects and the digital copies we make of them Today, it is possible to walk... View Article
One of my favourite artists is the Swiss-German painter Paul Klee. In 1914, Klee took a two-week trip to Tunisia,... View Article
When artists adopt, do they also oppress? The first time I visited the Museum of Modern Art in New York I... View Article
The act of gazing brings people into new relationships. The angles and meeting points of looking and seeing imply distinctions... View Article
There is nothing commemorative about this remarkably diverse exhibition, which attempts to trace the activities of a number of London-based... View Article
The appeal of Toba Khedoori’s work lies, perhaps, in the enigmatic precision with which her images are made. It lends... View Article
For our modern age – prone to jump to the defence of science, of data-driven evidence – there is something... View Article
The Canadian artist David Milne was born in 1882. By all accounts he was a modest man with a leaning... View Article
I’ve never been sure about Coventry railway station. Bold perpendicular lines of grey concrete, shifting mezzanine levels, fierce observance to... View Article
Gursky likes to print his images on very large scale paper. Think Monet’s water lily series at the Orangerie, Paris. So as you approach a work it fills your horizontal field of vision. As well as enveloping you, the technique also has the effect of encouraging you to forget about edges of the picture, to disregard what lies beyond, and to overlook the very deliberate cropping that Gursky undertakes.
There are few social-documentary photographs more well known, nor more heavily plundered for significance, than those of rural America from... View Article
The recent acquisition of Lotte Laserstein’s Evening Over Potsdam (Abend über Potsdam, 1930) by the Berlin National Gallery offers the... View Article
I recently had the pleasure of visiting the New Walk Museum & Art Gallery in Leicester. Enjoying this very fine... View Article
Does it matter if an abstract painting is hung the wrong way up? This question is not as facetious as... View Article
Compton Verney has raided its own collection of folk art in an attempt to open up its collection to new... View Article