Book Review: Sister Wendy’s 100 Best-loved Paintings
Late last year, the art world mourned the death of Sister Wendy Beckett (1930-2018), the quirky British nun who became a world-wide sensation as a...
Alexandra Kiely 9 November 2019
Art Forms
John Paddison – the Quiet Stone-Carver
John Paddison was a celebrated stone carver in the tradition of Jacob Epstein and Eric Gill, but his name is not as well known. Paddison was born in...
Guest Author 19 October 2019
Filmmaking is like Painting – Andrzej Wajda as a Painter
Ladies and Gentlemen, and now I will speak in Polish… – the famous words Polish director Andrzej Wajda (1926-2016) said while receiving...
Judyta Dąbrowska 17 October 2019
Spinning Colors: Turner’s Changes in Technique from Objects to Colors
JMW Turner’s paintings were accepted for their utmost quality from almost the instant he exhibited his first paintings to the wider public. His...
Craig Wakerley 14 October 2019
Beatles and Biennales – the Life and Times of Robyn Denny
In a grim and conservative post-war Britain, Robyn Denny burst onto the art scene like a Holi festival colour bomb. He arrived at art school in...
Candy Bedworth 3 October 2019
TAKIS: the Greek Genius that Altered the Course of Post-war Sculpture
After Takis’ passing away on 9 August 2019, and with his largest exhibition yet in the UK at Tate, it is important to know about the great...
Errika Gerakiti 15 August 2019
Moving to Abstraction: Andreas Gursky’s Rhine
Andreas Gursky’s Rhine is an interesting piece that tells the transformation of a real-life picture into an abstract work of art. The move towards...
Michel Rutten 26 July 2019
Japan’s Art Island – Naoshima
Over the next year Japan will be hosting the Rugby World Cup and the 2020 Olympics, expecting visitors from all over the world. If you’re an art...
Isla Phillips-Ewen 23 July 2019
Bold Is Beautiful – a Guide to Spotting a Ravinder Reddy Sculpture
Ravinder Reddy (b. 1956) is a contemporary Indian sculptor. His sculptures of women are now some of the most recognisable examples of contemporary...
Isla Phillips-Ewen 20 July 2019
The Beginning of a New World at Kröller-Müller Museum
The Beginning of a new World: The Development of Modern Sculpture is the newest exhibition at the Kröller-Müller Museum in Otterlo, Netherlands. It...
Nadine Waldmann 20 June 2019
Black Is Beautiful: Kwame Brathwaite at the Skirball Center
Let’s play a game: pick up any magazine from a US newsstand and count how many people of color are featured. Now try playing with a magazine from...
Guest Author 15 June 2019
The Innocents of Florence. A New Documentary by Davide Battistella
A 600-year-old painting leads two art conservators in Florence on a journey that sheds light on the story of the hundreds of thousands of children...
Kate Wojtczak 17 May 2019
