The Whitechapel Gallery celebrates abstract art this winter, while a previous exhibitor at the gallery, Sarah Lucas, prepares for Venice
Ireland’s outstanding 18th-century decorative arts have been long overlooked, but a new exhibition in Chicago looks set to change that
It looks like 2015 will be Manchester’s year
The Mauritshuis celebrates the Frick Collection this year, while a new documentary investigates the gallery’s own treasures
There’s plenty to tempt the art-loving cinema-goer this year
Piero di Cosimo in Washington and Florence; the Impressionists’ super-dealer Durand-Ruel; Captain Tripe documenting South India and Burma; and Jacob Lawrence’s 60-picture story
From Cornelia Parker’s meteorite-laden fireworks, to Peter Lanyon’s gliding paintings, British artists are commanding attention this year
An exceptional selection of exhibitions are opening in London this year, and some major museum openings are taking place further afield
The Victorians are coming. Or rather, the Victorians are coming back (again)
Attention-seeking museums; Moholy-Nagy’s pioneering multi-sensory art; the Cooper Hewitt; and photography in the Rijksmuseum
The Apollo Award Winners 2014; Jeremy Deller discusses Warhol and William Morris; and the rise (and fall?) of Italian post-war art in London
An extraordinary quantity of post-war Italian art has been exhibited, sold and written about this year. What’s behind the rich pickings?
Can treatment of flesh in sculpture only aspire to a condition of deadness?
We’ll soon be announcing the winners of the Apollo Awards 2014…
The Apollo Awards; Scandinavian art in London; and the mixed fortunes of New Contemporaries
Scandinavian artists from Peder Balke to Ida Ekblad feature in UK exhibitions this winter. Which should you watch out for?
A round-up of news and comment: First World War cartoons; a $500 million gift to LACMA; and the difficulty with digital art
At a post-war and contemporary auction, why settle for one famous name if you can have two?
The black humour of wartime cartoons got closer than most other art-forms to the grim realities of trench warfare
Was the Musée Picasso worth the wait? Is the Turner Prize showing its age? News and comment from the Muse Room
The paintings presented in Paul McCarthy’s exhibition at Hauser & Wirth are invariably obscene. Painted in the artist’s trademark palette –…
The display of art in Asia; photojournalism from Chechnya; and historic rings in New York
Artists on film; Spanish art in Durham; contemporary art in Paris; and auctions online
Tim Knox first came across ‘the most splendid British embassy building anywhere’ in a box of photographs on Portobello Road
December 2024
Emma Crichton-Miller
Apollo
Christina Makris
Christina Riggs
Rakewell
This episode explores an ancient funeral stele, Marie Antoinette’s breast bowl, and how digital technologies are helping to preserve Egyptian heritage sites
12 Days: Highlights of 2015
The Whitechapel Gallery celebrates abstract art this winter, while a previous exhibitor at the gallery, Sarah Lucas, prepares for Venice