Art
In Space Popular's presentation at the Sir John Soane's Museum the VR content does not complement the physical, but widens the gulf between art history and contemporary art making.
Art
A Thing for the Mind takes Philip Guston’s 1978 painting “Story” as a starting point to examine the myriad ways in which this piece has filtered into the work of other painters.
Art
An exhibition at the Barbican in London asks: How do you make sense of war's senseless destruction and loss of human life?
Art
Depicting the busts of Gabriel and the Virgin, “The Annunciation” (1677) may be the ultimate lost artwork, or "sleeper."
Art
Ikon Gallery's retrospective asserts that Carlo Crivelli’s self-reflexiveness and questioning the nature of the image made him anticipate the “contemporary.”
Art
Popular perceptions of van Gogh are often preoccupied with heart-wrenching accounts of mental illness, but Van Gogh: Self Portraits avoids speculative psychoanalytic readings of one tortured face after another.
Art
To play devil’s advocate, you could argue that eventually technology will be so good that everyone will have VR, and there is no need to travel to the National Gallery at all to see art.
Art
Why assemble the most significant grouping of Hogarths from far and wide without indicating why calling out the faults in historical artworks is important to our understanding of our world today?
Books
Sheila Barker’s account reveals an undeniably strong character and confidence distinct from, or perhaps in conjunction with, her practical survival needs.
Art
By recording unusual sights encountered throughout his travels and disseminating these via workshop practices, it’s understandable why Dürer is so prominent in art history.
Opinion
So legendarily precious and complex are the Fabergé eggs that they have become a byword for insane expenditure.
Art
Poussin and the Dance is a valiant attempt to break into Poussin’s staunchly academic oeuvre and provide a relatable point of entry, highlighting the exciting elements of revelry and movement despite impenetrable and unemotional rendering.