drawing
Marcel van Eeden, Sprueth Magers LondonMonday, 27 June 2011
An article in this week's New Yorker bemoans the death of drawing in art. Why has the emphasis on craft, Adam Gopnik writes, been replaced by concept? He has evidently not seen the fantastic noirish drawings of Marcel van Eeden at Sprueth Magers in... Read more... |
Egon Schiele, Richard Nagy GallerySunday, 22 May 2011
Richard Nagy's gallery has said that they don't want millions of people rushing to see their show of Egon Schiele's drawings of women - it's only a small second-floor space on New Bond Street after all, and 50 fragile pictures crowd the walls.... Read more... |
Max Bill, Annely Juda Fine ArtThursday, 19 May 2011
Max Bill might be the missing link in modern art. He died only in 1994, yet he studied at the Bauhaus in Dessau in the 1920s, taught by Josef Albers, László Moholy-Nagy, Paul Klee and Kandinsky. It is hard to imagine that someone who was working at... Read more... |
Ivor Abrahams, Mystery and Imagination, Royal AcademyWednesday, 27 April 2011
In this month of royal weddings, endless bank holidays and (possibly?) equally endless good weather, it can be hard to focus, so perhaps this is the perfect opportunity to catch up with a show that nearly got away. Instead of winsome blockbusters... Read more... |
Antoine Watteau, Royal Academy and Wallace CollectionFriday, 11 March 2011
As a young man searching for a way to make a living in Paris, Antoine Watteau briefly tried his hand at engraving fashion plates. He seems to have had a natural affinity for cloth and drew its folds and creases with such apparent ease that you can... Read more... |
Gabriel Orozco, Tate ModernMonday, 17 January 2011
The show opens with his iconic 1991 piece, My Hands are My Heart, a double photograph of Orozco’s naked torso. In the first photograph his hands clutch a hidden object at chest-height; in the second the hands splay open to present to the viewer a... Read more... |
Ben Johnson: Modern Perspectives, National GalleryThursday, 23 December 2010
Oh dearie, dearie me. Modern Perspectives sounded like it had such promise. Running alongside the big Canaletto show in the Sainsbury wing of the National Gallery, two finished works and one work in progress by Ben Johnson are on show in Room One... Read more... |
Norman Rockwell's America, Dulwich Picture GalleryThursday, 16 December 2010
Norman Rockwell’s America. What did it look like? At the height of Rockwell’s incredible fame as an illustrator, you might say it looked a lot like a movie still. Think of the films of Frank Capra, for instance: heartwarming scenes of family life... Read more... |
Treasures from Budapest: European Masterpieces from Leonardo to Schiele, Royal AcademyMonday, 27 September 2010
Treasures from Budapest – phew! It’s overwhelming. One staggers out quite cross-eyed and wobbly-kneed. There are over 200 works, for heaven’s sake. And so many Virgins: sweet-faced Italian Madonnas, austere Eastern European Madonnas, pallid German... Read more... |
The Body in Women’s Art Now: Flux, Rollo Contemporary ArtTuesday, 21 September 2010
Flux, the second in a trio of exhibitions devoted to images of women by women, immediately grabs your attention with an in-your-face animation by Swedish artist Natalie Djurberg. Clay figures enact grotesque stories that have a nasty, fairytale edge... Read more... |
Rachel Whiteread: Drawings, Tate Britain & Gagosian GalleryThursday, 16 September 2010
Rachel Whiteread is best known for her exploration of space, of presence and absence, of how we look at what is present – and absent – in the textures of our lives. House, her life-sized cast of a house in a derelict street in East London, first... Read more... |
The Chapman Brothers: Children's Art Commission, Whitechapel GalleryFriday, 27 August 2010
When Jake and Dinos Chapman first came to the attention of a wider public at the Royal Academy’s Sensation exhibition, their work came with a parental warning: a sign barring under-18s. After all, naked child mannequins sporting surprised-looking... Read more... |
