Zen in the Art of Archery
Eugen Herrigel’s beautiful insight into Zen is also problematic. Does it still have the power to teach?
Eugen Herrigel’s beautiful insight into Zen is also problematic. Does it still have the power to teach?
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
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The Canadian artist David Milne was born in 1882. By all accounts he was a modest man with a leaning... 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.
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In the victory parades in Paris that crowned the end of the Second World War, the Allied Nations agreed that... View Article
How do we depict the past? One way is to travel along the byways of hindsight, to remember with knowing... View Article
In Virginia Woolf’s experimental novel The Waves, the wistful Bernard reflects “I have lost friends, some by death […] others... View Article
Does it matter if an abstract painting is hung the wrong way up? This question is not as facetious as... View Article
Anyone who is familiar with Voltaire’s satirical classic Candide will recall the calamitous, if not frankly pernicious, series of trials... View Article
In his 1938 book The Theatre and Its Double (Le Théâtre et son Double) , French dramatist and actor Antonin... View Article
There was a time when abstract painting was all the rage. Perhaps never quite de rigueur, but in a more... View Article
Compton Verney has raided its own collection of folk art in an attempt to open up its collection to new... View Article
Oliver Barratt’s sculpture, Spring, is a bright and fulsome tribute to the influence of water. Its signature is the uninterrupted... View Article
The events that happen inside buildings often leave behind marks, like a little scar on a wall where a ribbon... View Article