The Future-Past: Competing Temporalities of the Ruin. Ruin Lust, Tate...
A fascination with ruins has not always been with us. It presumes, for one, a linear notion of time, in other words the idea that the past is irrevocably lost. It is also born of a forensic – or...
View ArticleMatisse’s Startling Late Works
Matisse’s Startling Late Works: The Cut-Outs. Tate Modern, 17 April – 7 September 2014 No wonder Henri Matisse is well loved. His works are sensuous, jubilant, gorgeous: they envelop and immerse the...
View ArticleSpecies of Trees and Other Landscapes, David Harker.
This exhibition includes examples of David Harker’s project Species of Trees and drawings, paintings and prints from his portfolio of landscape imagery.
View ArticleThe Atomium, Belgium, by Barbara Lewis.
What exactly is the essence of Belgium? Far harder to pin down than French chic or English sang-froid, the nation’s uneasy mix of Walloon and Flemish, surreal and down-to-earth, all miraculously...
View ArticleMatisse. MOMA NYC. Review by Julia Pascal.
Matisse's original idea of producing this cut and paste art form in the 1940s, was a major breakthrough in minimalism. The genius of a great artist is to make complex work in a simple way.
View ArticleFleece to Fibre
Jill Harris enthuses about a remarkable tapestry on show at London’s Fleming Collection A woman is trudging through a field towards a clump of trees. It is winter. The ground is covered in snow which...
View ArticleSelf. Turner Contemporary. Margate, 2015. Review by Fiona Sinclair.
This is a thought provoking exhibition that aims to go beyond the surface of simply putting faces to the famous names. It suggests an art form that continues to find ways of revealing the self but also...
View ArticleFaces Then, Faces Now. Bozar, Brussels until May 17.
Faces Then focuses on the 16th-century, regarded as the golden age of the portrait, when it was the rich, the powerful and the burgeoning bourgeoisie who could afford to have their portraits taken....
View ArticleChagall Retrospective, Musees Royaux des Beaux-Arts de Belgique.
With their green goats, giant roosters and bridal couples flying through the air, Marc Chagall’s works appear fantastic, but he insisted he only painted direct reminiscences of his own life.
View ArticleHenri Cartier-Bresson exhibition, Jewish Museum, Brussels. Review by Barbara...
An exhibition of the extraordinary output of France’s Henri Cartier-Bresson, hailed as the founder of photojournalism and “the eye of the century”. That is true in the fullest sense of the words, given...
View ArticleProvincial Punk. Grayson Perry. Turner Contemporary.
Two things strike in this exhibition: a strong sense of Englishness and a creative link to an artistic heritage as far back as the antique world. The classical urns, vases on closer inspection are...
View Article“David Bowie Is” and Pierre Boulez retrospective, Philharmonie de Paris.
One of Britain’s biggest pop icons and one of France’s intellectual giants have more in common than you might think.
View ArticleVictor Hugo at Villers-la-Ville until August 16 and Le Malade Imaginaire at...
The 12th-century abbey of Villers-la-Ville in Belgium has a tradition of open air summer theatre that dates back more than a hundred years – but the tradition is not quite unbroken. On the July night...
View ArticleRavilious at the Dulwich Picture Gallery
William Marshall & Wendy French are enthusiastic about the Eric Ravilious exhibition at the Dulwich Picture Gallery (running until August 31st) This is an exhibition not to be missed: indeed, it...
View ArticlePaul Delvaux Museum, Belgium. Review by Barbara Lewis.
In the Flemish town of Veurne (Furnes in French), tucked away with appropriate incongruity between a bandstand and an aviary, stands a bust of Paul Delvaux (1897-1994), the surrealist painter who lived...
View ArticleBarbara Hepworth: Sculpture for a Modern World. Tate Britain until Oct 15....
Barbara Hepworth said finding Trewyn Studio in St Ives was “a sort of magic”. It provided her with the perfect context to work, in harmony with her surroundings, and to display her sculptures in the...
View Article‘Risk’ exhibition at Turner Contemporary – review by Fiona Sinclair.
‘Life is a gamble, at terrible odds – if it was a bet you wouldn’t take it’ writes Tom Stoppard in Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead. Turner Contemporary’s exhibition ‘Risk’ attests to this. The...
View ArticleI Belgi, Barbari e Poeti, Espace Vanderborght, Brussels. Review by Barbara...
Wry, strange, self-mocking, subversive, acerbic, ironic, cynical, sarcastic, bitter, unconventional and of course surreal – are just some of the adjectives that spring to mind as you browse the...
View ArticleEscher at the Dulwich Picture Gallery
William Marshall reports on his visits to the M C Escher exhibition in Dulwich The familiarity of Escher’s work contrasts with his obscurity as an artist and a person. This exhibition is the first...
View ArticlePaintings by Howard Fritz at The Torriano
Howard Fritz – Paintings & Drawings At the Torriano Meeting House, 99 Torriano Avenue, London, NW5 2RX from January 12th 2016 Work can be seen before & during all Torriano events – see...
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