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Simon CoatesObserver |
France's loan to the U.K. offers a roadmap for how art and mutual understanding can bring nations together. Perhaps other countries could try it.
Less partisan collectors shouldn't automatically shy away from paintings and sculpture crafted by big-name musicians, though caution is advised.
“I am always advocating for prints to be seen as important artworks in their own right,” he told Observer.
The Redd Family Collection is, he tells Observer, "a river of memory carrying Black artistic vision forward into the present.”
The exhibition focuses on the period when the artist used concentrated sources of light to create atmosphere and build anticipation.
This is artwork that can lift the lowest of spirits.
Dual exhibitions trace how Britain’s 20th-century artists engaged with myth, sexuality and politics on their own terms.
The urgency of Lubaina Himid’s original curatorial mission remains painfully relevant.
At times more coy than carnal, works by Louise Bourgeois, Eva Hesse and Alice Adams explore eroticism through ambiguity, restraint and form.
The exhibition offers a rare opportunity for U.K. audiences to engage with one of Latin America’s most influential painters.