Memphis Milano By Shai Baitel
18 May 2023 • Guest
In 2016, The Guardian published an article by critic Kyle Chayka titled ‘Same old, same old. How the hipster aesthetic… Read More
Tag: Modernism
Top 5 Museum Exhibitions to see in early 2023
8 January 2023 • Tabish Khan
Tabish Khan the @LondonArtCritic picks his favourite top 5 exhibitions to see in museums to kick start 2023. Each one comes with a… Read More
Tabish’s Top 5 Art Exhibitions to see in London this week
11 August 2014 • Tabish Khan
Tabish Khan brings you five art exhibitions in London that you should visit during the week. Each one comes with a concise review to help you decide whether it’s for you.
Madonna sells Fernand Léger’s modern material girls
9 May 2013 • Mark Westall
The singer has sold a painting by Léger to fund girl’s education: the work’s modern beauty is a paean to strong women
Who’d steal an empty, pretentious Dalí?
21 February 2013 • Mark Westall
The dangerous power of celebrity, so well understood by the Spanish artist, may be behind a fashion PR’s alleged theft
Paul Cézanne: founding father of modern art
6 February 2013 • Mark Westall
Look closely at the French artist’s abstract, pixellated works and the seeds of modernism come into focus
Matthew Houlding: The Oceanic
16 January 2013 • Yvette
Everyone has their own history within the bigger picture. I tend to use things or appropriate things, fit them to my own imagination and personal history.
Mike Kelley: the nonconformist’s whole life is here
20 December 2012 • Mark Westall
Magic carpets, Superman, and lewd encounters with barbers: Kelley’s life’s work is on show at this Amsterdam retrospective – and his rancid humour shines through
The Jonas Mekas effect and Mariko Mori’s seasonal show – the week in art
7 December 2012 • Mark Westall
Cinema at London’s Serpentine, Jim Shaw’s imagination and Kevin Harman’s subversive portraiture – all in your weekly art dispatch
Good takes on evil at Berlin’s Museum of Things
18 September 2012 • Mark Westall
Plain pots and pans face off against kitsch cups in this German collection of objects showcasing the Deutscher Werkbund’s quest for ‘good form’
Bauhaus: a blueprint for the future
13 April 2012 • Mark Westall
On the eve of a Barbican retrospective, Rowan Moore explores the enduring appeal and influence of the Bauhaus school
Dutch artist’s works found in British warehouse
16 February 2012 • Mark Westall
Over 400 stolen artworks by celebrated 20th-century expressionist painter Karel Appel discovered by storage firm
Building the Revolution: Soviet Art and Architecture 1915-1935 – review
30 October 2011 • Mark Westall
Royal Academy, London
The people’s painters: what makes a work of art popular?
19 August 2011 • Mark Westall
Monet, Van Gogh, and Klimt are the favourite artists among virtual art collectors. But before you turn your nose up at these obvious choices, let’s consider their mass appeal