Painting the Modern Garden
As 100mph storms engulf a dark, wintry Britain, the Royal Academy of Arts brings a timely form of escapism. Its latest exhibition, ‘Painting the Modern Garden’, transports us to the […]
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Michael Craig-Martin: Technology and Transience
In his 1964 book Understanding Media, the Canadian philosopher Marshall McLuhan noted how ‘technical change alters not only habits of life, but patterns of thought and valuation’. This notion became […]
Ai Weiwei: Artist and Activist
It sounds almost reductive to refer to Ai Weiwei as an ‘artist’. Outspoken humanitarian and political dissident, he’s just as much celebrated as an icon of social and international freedom […]
Agnes Martin: Reaching Zero
‘Simplicity is never simple,’ Agnes Martin once said. It’s a quote which has become iconic, not least as the most befitting introduction to the artist herself. For against the white […]
Duane Hanson: The Anti-Madame Tussauds
House of Wax meets contemporary art at the Serpentine Sackler Gallery this summer. The latest exhibition focuses on American artist Duane Hanson and his lifelike sculptures of ordinary citizens. Like […]
The Colours of Sonia Delaunay
For numerous decades, the most famous part of Sonia Delaunay was her surname. Traditionally overlooked alongside her more celebrated husband Robert, she has long found herself bracketed under the Delaunay […]
Into the Future Library
Literary legend Margaret Atwood may have just completed her latest work, but it’ll be a long time before anyone reads it. In fact, the likelihood is we’ll never be able […]
Allen Jones: Feminist and Fetishist
Few artists have exploded onto the scene with quite the scandalous gusto of Allen Jones. When he first unveiled the now-infamous Hatstand, Table and Chair in 1970, he sparked an […]
Anselm Kiefer’s Art of Destruction
On the 8th March 1945, the Black Forest town of Donaueschingen witnessed two events. The first, Anselm Kiefer was born; the second, his neighbour’s house was targeted by allied bombers, […]
Henri Matisse: The Cut-Outs
Wheelchair-bound and afflicted with illness, it is extraordinary that the last decade of Henri Matisse’s life was one of such creative vitality. The artist, widely regarded as the leading colourist […]
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