LIVERPOOL.- Belgian Surrealist René Magritte (1898-1967) is one of the most important and revered artists of the 20th century. A major new exhibition presented by Tate Liverpool in summer 2011 will reveal the inspiration behind the artist’s uniqu…
FRANKFURT.- Anything is possible – but in contemporary art there is actually very rarely anything “new”, anything that really challenges our powers of perception and our mind. We’re talking about works that make us a little dizzy wh…
FRANKFURT.- Anything is possible – but in contemporary art there is actually very rarely anything “new”, anything that really challenges our powers of perception and our mind. We’re talking about works that make us a little dizzy wh…
LONDON.- An arresting image from Irma Stern’s time in Zanzibar, where she was powerfully affected by the beauty of the local Indian women, features in Bonhams next sale of South African Art in London on October 26 and 27. There are no fewer than f…
VENICE.- Love of the paradoxical, of the oxymoron, of the ambiguous, is a key to the work of one of the twentieth century’s greatest filmmakers: Stanley Kubrick. While his films are known and appreciated by millions, few were aware until now that Kubri…
VENICE.- Love of the paradoxical, of the oxymoron, of the ambiguous, is a key to the work of one of the twentieth century’s greatest filmmakers: Stanley Kubrick. While his films are known and appreciated by millions, few were aware until now that Kubri…
ZIMBABWE (AP).- A Zimbabwe artist’s attorney says the artist will go to trial next month for depicting scenes in his paintings of civilians being massacred by government troops, images that have now been banned under the country’s censorship laws. Ear…
WASHINGTON, DC.- “John Gossage: The Pond” celebrates the recent gift to the museum of this remarkable photographic series and the re-issue of one of the most influential photography books of the past three decades. John Gossage (b. 1946) phot…
