Art
Victoria Beckham Spices Up Her Mayfair Boutique with Old Masters from Sotheby’s
Former Spice Girl Victoria Beckham's London shop is hosting an art display of paintings from Sotheby's Old Master sale.
Olivia McEwan
Olivia McEwan is a trained art historian and freelance writer focusing on the London art world. She is also a practising artist, lending a keen eye and understanding of painterly technique which informs her criticisms of historical and emerging arts.
Books
Linda Nochlin’s Lifetime Insights Continue to Amaze
Published after her death, this succinct volume draws important art historical connections pointing to longstanding struggles with depictions of misery.
Art
Painterly Visions of Being All Too Human
At best, All Too Human shows well known artists at an intriguing new angle and revisits lesser known names, but at worst makes some perplexing curatorial choices which defy its own set of rules, stretching relevance through some optimistic inclusions.
Art
Picasso's Pivotal Year
A show at the Tate Modern in London hones in on the artist’s diaristic relationship to his own work
Art
Michael Rakowitz Recreates a Sculpture Destroyed by ISIS for London’s Trafalgar Square
The latest fourth plinth commission is a full-scale recreation of a winged bull sculpture from 700 BCE entirely clad in Iraqi date cans.
Art
An Art Collection Fit for an Executed King
Underpinning this exhibition of work from the collection of the executed king is a focused arrangement that allows the political events of the time to be told through the narrative of the collection’s history.
Art
Using Mirrors to See van Eyck Reflected in the Pre-Raphaelites
This exhibition demonstrates Van Eyck’s influence on the Pre-Raphaelite through visual comparisons which satisfyingly reveal a complex relationship between two otherwise disparate art movements.
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Seeing Beyond Basquiat's Market Value
With Basquiat’s work transformed into an overhyped commodity, it can seem difficult to assess it for ourselves.
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One Color But Not One Dimensional
The curators of Monochrome: Painting in Black and White adopt an inventive approach by selecting examples that take the viewer through an utterly absorbing display in which there are almost as many uses for grayscale as there are exhibits.
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Dalí and Duchamp’s Lasting Friendship, and the Art It Might’ve Inspired
For the first time, an exhibition explores these artists' friendship and the visual parallels within their distinct work.
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Hokusai’s “Great Wave” Was Only a Drop in the Bucket
Already fully accomplished by his fifties in a range of styles, from his sixties Katsushika Hokusai’s paintings and prints begin to accelerate in ambition and sophistication, leaping between styles and subjects.
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Seeing Beyond Alberto Giacometti’s Bronzes
Tate Modern's retrospective of the Swiss sculptor, which gathers some 250 pieces, highlights his multi-pronged process and sustained work in plaster, wood, terracotta, oil paint, and more.