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Visiting the Musee d'art et d'histoire in Geneva, you soon get used to this face: bearded, with an intense stare from beneath a furrowed brow, and a defiance that seems [...]

Edmund de Waal's recent journey to Jingdezhen continues his long engagement with the ceramic traditions of the Far East; but for all its strongly felt historical influences, his work remains [...]

For the last three years, Dulwich Picture Gallery has been working closely with the Prado Museum in Madrid and the Fundacion Focus-Abengoa in Seville on an exhibition that brings together [...]

The exhibition 'Aphrodite and the Gods of Love' at the Museum of Fine Arts (MFA), Boston, is the first dedicated exclusively to the goddess of beauty and love (until 20 [...]

In the middle of north-west London's suburban rumble is a large unassuming building that contains one of Britain's great cultural treasures. It is the site of the store for the [...]

Art and antiques fairs take centre stage this month, with Maastricht, the jewel in the dealers' crown, opening its doors 10-19 March. The European Fine Art Fair, now known by [...]

The author explores pop artist Andy Warhol's philosophy, where he challenges the standard conventions in elite art through pop art. The article focuses on 'Raid the Icebox I,' a 1969 curatorial exhibition by Warhol in a basement of the Museum of Art at the Rhode Island School of Design, which questioned the traditional, professional practices of museums.

Reviews of various exhibitions held at a number of venues in New York, NY, are presented. The Brooklyn Museum's retrospective of the work of Jackson Pollock's wife Lee Krasner is discussed.

The author reviews the art of Display Cult's, 'CounterPoses: Reimagining the Tableau Vivant,' the art works of a group of artist in the form of installations and tableaux. Through performances and displays the artists, including David McFarlane, Colette, Shawna Dempsey, and Lorri Millan, explore topics such as audience experience, pop culture, religious, social, and psychological issues.

The state of the art market in Britain is discussed. The impetus from the opening of the Tate Modern, the refurbishment of the British Museum, London, and new exhibits from the Hermitage Museum, St Petersburg, is assessed.

This article reviews the exhibitions of two contemporary artists, Franz West and Jerry Thomas, focusing on the relationship between craft and fine art in their work.

The Norman Rockwell Museum of Stockbridge, MA, organized a travelling museum retrospective of the artist's works. The 70 paintings and 322 'Saturday Evening Post' covers will ultimately end up at the Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY, in 2001. Rockwell is regarded as influential by some critics, while others downplay his influence.

The exhibit, 'Masters, Mentors, and Makers,' included the works of painter David Driskell, who has carved a named for himself as a scholar and as an artist. Driskell is one of the mature artists who seek to define a more personalized imagery, and whose enthusiasm and passion for the arts has been evident throughout the years. Most of his works delve on the aspects of nature and Africa, color and texture, memory and history, community and culture. His desire to pursue a higher goal of personal artistry exemplifies how African American artists strengthen their integrity in this field.

The main strength of artist Robert Morris is his ability to report on the important art movements of his time. His two-part retrospective at the Guggenheim Museum clearly demonstrates his reportorial skills. His work is presented in this exhibition, in a distancing manner, as the history or inventory of several art genres, thereby negating the possibility of demonstrating his individual art works to their most aesthetic or intellectual advantage. Thus, the retrospective does not showcase Morris' efforts to change his time but demonstrates how he observed and reported on it.

We've all been to openings where nothing is quite finished, but the first night of Michael Elmgreen & Ingar Dragset's recent exhibition at Kunsthalle Zurich must have set a record. [...]

Latter-day defenders of the one true path of modernism may think that they were blindsided, but few real challenges come at you straight on. The one offered by the artists [...]

Wallace & Gromit and Friends: The Magic of Aardman comes to the Australian Centre for the Moving Image (ACMI) in Melbourne in June, after incredibly successful shows in Paris and [...]