An exam question for you: – You know about Surrealism, Impressionism, Constructivism, Dada, Pop Art, and many other art movements, but what do you know about Signals or Signalism? Probably not a lot….. Signalism was an international movement which developed in Yugoslavia in the 1950′s linking across all the arts including visual art, poetry, technology, […]
The Rectorate of Palermo University is based in the Palazzo Chiaramonte-Sterni which faces onto a square in the historic area of Palermo down near the sea which at that time came further inland and indeed up to the Palazzo itself. Completed in the early 14th century, it was built by the powerful Chiaramonte family who […]
In 2009, Michele Obama broke with the tradition of the First Lady wearing dresses by American designers to major events; her choice for a NATO dinner and for the American Ballet Theatre in New York was the Tunisian couturier Azzedine Alia, whose list of clients includes some of the most noteworthy woman of the age […]
The two powerful images of recent political campaigns in the UK and the US are the BREXIT bus which which proclaimed across its sides that we would save £350 million a week to spend on other things and Donald Trump’s simple slogan “Make American Great Again” embroidered on huge numbers of baseball caps. No matter […]
Yes, two of Carol Peace’s early and relatively small works sit in a prime position at the home. How time flies! These were probably bought a decade ago and it was fascinating to see how her work has developed at her recent show at the Woolff Gallery in Fitzrovia, London. More animated, more energetic and […]
There can’t be many, if any, art events on the scale of the Summer Exhibition which are still going strong after 250 years. With such a momentous anniversary and with its redevelopment project completed, the Royal Academy had to pull out all the stops this year so, who better to ask to coordinate it than […]
Ever since the Royal Academy took on the old Museum of Mankind in Burlington Gardens, it has been a frustration that the two buildings were not joined and, if visiting exhibitions in both, you had to walk round the streets from one to the other – though Burlington Arcade is always a pleasure to walk […]
So, what do you know about modern Swiss art? Probably not very much. Can you even name a modern Swiss artist? Is it because the country is surrounded by other countries and cultures – even split into three different areas with three different languages. It is always a shock to drive over a Swiss mountain […]
It’s always difficult to show photography in modern ‘white cube’ art galleries, but Hawser & Wirth have shown how to do it with works from one of the masters of 20th century German photography (if not the actual master) by using over-size images from August Sander. Sander is a hero of his age, photographing everyday […]
The old historic town of Cordoba with its narrow alleys and small squares is awash with museums and galleries in the old houses of former rich and artistic families – it would take a whole weekend to explore them. The newest is unashamedly modern on the inside, while respecting traditional proportions and the historic urban […]
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