ART MAGAZINE
Art reviews in London, book reviews, plus details of major shows in Paris, European cities and New York

 

 

Museum Shows

  
  • Brett Whiteley's Studio,Sydney  
  • McMichael Canadian Art Collection, Canada  
  • V&A Museum's Mediaeval and Renaissance galleries, London  
  • Leighton House Museum, Kensington, London  
  • Chiswick House and Gardens/Camellia Festival, Chiswick, London  
  • Strawberry Hill re-opens after £9 million restoration, Twickenham,London  
  • Eric Parry Architects' new extension at Holburne Museum, Bath  
  • Grayson Perry: The Tomb of the Unknown Craftsmen,British Museum  
  • Lab Architecture Studio's creation of M-Shed museum, Bristol  
  • Watts Gallery reopens in Compton Artist's Village, Surrey  
  • Pacific Standard Time:Art in LA 1945-1980,Southern California  
  • Ancient Egypt and Nubia, Ashmolean Museum, Oxford  
  • Golden Spider Silk/Hollywood Costume, V&A museum, London  
  • The Cult of Beauty: The Aesthetic Movement 1860-1900,San Francisco  
 

 

Gallery Shows

  
  •Paris art exhibitions  
  •New York exhibitions  
  •London exhibitions,London  
  •Glasgow shows,Glasgow  
  •Edinburgh exhibitions,Edinburgh  
  •Fondation Henri Cartier Bresson,Paris  
  •Australian Art Collection,Art Gallery of New South Wales,Sydney  
  •Whitechapel Gallery Expansion,London  
  •Fremantle Arts Centre, Fremantle, West Australia  
  •Turner Contemporary designed by David Chipperfield, Margate  
  •Hepworth Wakefield-world centre for sculpture/Eva Rothschild,Yorkshire  
  •Leonardo da Vinci, Painter at the Court of Milan, Natonal Gallery  
  •Firstsite new arts centre, Colchester, England  
  •Taylor Wessing Photo Portrait Prize, National Portrait Gallery, London  
  •Joan Miro: The Ladder of Escape, Fundacio Joan Miro, Barcelona  
  •The Scottish Colourists Series: FCB Cadell, Edinburgh  
  •David Hockney RA: A Bigger Picture, Royal Academy, London  
  •Damien Hirst, Tate Modern, London  
  •London2012 Festival 21st June-9th September, London  
 

 

Book Reviews

 
  • Painting Canada:Tom Thomson and the Group of Seven, Dulwich by Ian Dejardin/Anna Hudson and others  
  • Building the Revolution: Soviet art and architecture 1915-35, RA by Jean-Louis Cohen/Christina Lodder/Richard Pare  
  • The Indiscipline of painting. International Abstraction from the 1960s to Now,Tate St Ives by Daniel Sturgis/Terry R.Myers and others  
  • Gerhard Richter: Panorama, Tate Modern, London by Nicholas Serota, Mark Godfrey and others  
  • Barry Flanagan: Early Works 1965-82/Don McCullin,Tate Britain by Clarrie Wallis and Andrew Wilson  
  • Postmodernism: Style and Subversion 2970-1990, V&A by Glenn Adamson and Jane Pavitt  
  • Degas and The Ballet: Picturing Movement, Royal Academy,London by Richard Kendall and jill de Vonyar  
  • Elizabeth Blackadder, Edinburgh  
  • Tony Cragg.Edinburgh  
  • Eyewitness:Hungarian photography in the 20th century,RA,London by Colin Ford, Peter Baki, George Szirtes  
  • The Vorticists: Manifesto for a Modern World, London by Editors Mark Antliff and Vivien Greene  
  • Out of Australia: Prints and Drawings from Sidney Nolan to Rover Thomas,London by Stephen Coppel  
  • Barbara Hepworth: The Plasters, the gift to Wakefield by Sophie Bowness and others  
  • Tracey Emin:Love is what you Want, Hayward Gallery,London by Ralph Rugoff, Cliff Lauson, Michael Corris & others  
  • Out of Australia;Prints from Sidney Nolan to Rover Thomas by Stephen Coppel  
  • Ida Kar: Bohemian photographer 1908-74/Hoppé Portraits,NPG,London by Clare Freestone  
  • Afghanistan:Crossroads of the Ancient World, British Museum, London by Frederik Hiebert and Pierre Cambon  
  • Modern British Sculpture, Royal Academy, London by Penelope Curtis and Keith Wilson  
  • Louise Bourgeois by Ann Coxon-Tate Publishing-£14.99  
  • Folkestone Triennial 2011 by Andrea Schlieker  
  • Gauguin:Maker of Myth, Tate Modern, London by Belinda Thomson/Tamar Garb/Philippe Dagen/Linda Goddard  
  • Diaghilev and the Golden Age of the Ballets Russes 1909-29,V&A museum by Jane Pritchard and Geoffrey Marsh  
  • Another World-Dali, Magritte.Miro and the Surrealists,Dean Gallery,Edinburgh by Patrick Elliott ISBN 978 1 906270 308  
  • Picasso: The Mediterranean Years 1945-62,Gagosian gallery, London by John Richardson/Bernard Ruiz-Picasso £70 hdbk  
  • Camille Silvy, Photographer of Modern Life 1834-1910,National PortraitGallery by Mark Haworth-Booth  
  • Picasso Peace and Freedom, Tate Publishing by Lynda Morris/Christoph Grunenberg  
  • The Picasso Book, Essential Artists series,Tate Publishing by Neil Cox  
  • Fra Angelico to Leonardo:Italian Renaissance Drawings,British Museum,London by Hugo Chapman and Marzia Faietti  
  • Pioneering Painters: The Glasgow Boys, Royal Academy,London by Roger Billcliffe/Jean Walsh/Hugh Stevenson  
  • Quilts 1700-2010, V&A Museum, London by Sue Prichard  
  • The Indian Portrait 1560-1860/The Singh Twins,National Portrait Gallery by Rosemary Crill/Kapil Jariwala  
  • Henry Moore, Tate Britain, London by Editor Chris Stephens/Michael Parke-Taylor and others  
  • Arshile Gorky: A retrospective. by Matthew Gale/Tate Publishing £14.99  
  • Van Doesburg and the International Avant-Garde,Tate Modern,London by Gladys Fabre/Doris Wintgens Hotte/Michael White  
  • Chris Ofili, Tate Britain, London by Editor Judith Nesbitt.Helen Little/Okwui Enwezor/Attilah Springer  
  • The Real Van Gogh: The Artist and his Letters,Royal Academy,London by Dumas/Bakker/Jansen  
  • Wild Thing: Epstein, Gaudier-Brzeska,Gill, Royal Academy publications by Richard Cork  
  • Beatles to Bowie: The 60s exposed by Terence Peppper  
  • Maharaja: The Splendour of India's Royal Courts,V&A museum, London by Anna Jackson/Amin Jaffer  
  • Anish Kapoor, Royal Academy,London by Homi K Bhabha, Jean de Loisy and Sir Norman Rosenthal  
  • Moctezuma:Aztec Ruler, British Museum, London by Colin McEwan and Leonardo Lopez Lujan  
  • The Discovery of Spain: Goya to Picasso by Christopher Baker/David Howarth/Paul Stirton  
  • Futurism by Ottinger/Gale/Coen  
  • The Art and Life of Josef Herman (Lund Humphries) by Monica Bohm-Duchen  
  • Kate Whiteford: Land Drawing/Installation/Excavations by Richard Cork/Richard Nightingale/Colin Renfrew/YvesAbrioux  
  • The History of British Art: 1870-Now (Tate Publishing) by Editor David Bindman  
  • Rodchenko and Popova: Defining Constructivism-Tate publishing by Margarita Tupitsyn  
  • Altermodern (Tate Publishing) by Nicolas Bourriaud  
  • Sean Scully by David Carrier  
  • Lucian Freud:Early works,1940-58. by james Holland-Hibbert  
  • Miro,Calder,Giacometti,Braque:Aimé Maeght and his artists by Nicholas Watkins/Ann Dumas  
  • Rothko,Tate Modern,London by Achim Borchardt-Hume  
  • Cold War Modern:Design 1945-70,V&A publications  
  • Francis Bacon by Matthew Gale/Chris Stephens  
  • Margaret Mellis-A Life in colour by Mel Gooding/Emily Whalley/Calvin Winner  
  • Foto: Modernity in Central Europe,1918-45 by Matthew S.Witkovsky (Thames & Hudson)  
  • Cy Twombly:Cycles and Seasons by Nicholas Serota/Richard Schiff/Nicholas Cullinan/Tacita Dean  
  • The American Scene-Prints from Hopper to Pollock by Stephen Coppel  
  • The Art of Lee Miller by Mark Haworth-Booth  
  • Salvador Dalî-An illustrated life/Dalî & Film by Mathew Gale/Dawn Ades/Fanes  
  • Time in the Stone-Emily Young by Emily Young/Richard Fortey and others  
  • Surreal Things/Surreal People by Ghislaine Wood/Alexander Klar  
  • The Rothko Book by Bonnie Clearwater  
  • Modern Artists series:Tracey Emin by Neal Brown  
  • Writers on Howard Hodgkin by Barnes,Boyd,Chatwin etc  
  • A Perfect Red by Amy Butler Greenfield  
  • Henri Cartier-Bresson: A Biography by Pierre Assouline  
  • Tai-Shan Schierenberg,London by Tai Schan Schierenberg/William Packer  
  • Modern Artists series; Rachel Whiteread by Charlotte Mullins  
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