The catalogue to accompany an exhibition at Museo delle Culture di Lugano in the Villa Malpensata, home to the Montgomery Collection. Textiles, paintings, objects of quotidian use, etc.
A short catalogue of the small but perfectly formed Freud exhibition at the Garden Museum. Drawings, oil sketches, paintings, of flowers, leaves, his Zimmerlinde, tatty buddleia-filled back ... read more
Catalogue of the recent exhibition of her ravishing pictures at the Redfern Gallery, where her work can be seen to shift from precise line drawing to abstraction and colour, culminating in l... read more
Three decades of the Slovak artist's work, from the 1960s to the 1980s: abstract sculptures in cast plaster, aluminium, wood and stone that use organic forms to explore contrasts - fragile a... read more
Accompanies the exhibition in Chicago and at the Getty Center. Though Claudel's legacy has been overshadowed by Rodin, she was a superb and innovative sculptor in her own right.
CA, Michael Andrews, Frank Auerbach, Leon Kossoff, Euan Uglow. With an introductory reminiscence of the Slade and them by a fellow student, Susan Campbell. Includes three essays by the three... read more
To accompany the exhibition at MoMA about the history of enironmental thinking in architecture and focussing on the moving lines between ecology, design and politics.
Portraits, tapestries, sculpture, armour, manuscripts and objects from this artistically cosmopolitan court: Flemish weavers, German painters, Florentine sculptors... all in the service of d... read more
Chic and comprehensive, with glorious double-page spreads of Renaissance tapestries, essays on C18th gardens or the radical politics of horticulture, and a fascinating abecedarium. Large fo... read more
A global approach coinciding with an exhibition at the Met which is coming to Tate Modern in 2022. Looks at Colombia, Turkey, the Philippines etc, as well as the US, France and the UK, from ... read more
Looks at the paintings from New York in the 1940s that precede the sculpture for which she is better known. Accompanies exhibition at the Met, April-Aug 2022.
To accompany the exhibition at the V&A: 150 works by Diane Arbus, Richard Avedon, Nan Goldin, David LaChapelle, Robert Mapplethorpe, Zanele Muholi, Helmut Newton, Cindy Sherman, Andy Warhol,... read more
This influential figure in pre-WW1 Paris has become much better known in recent years - as is evident from this fine Yale publication and the exhibition at the Barnes Foundation, Philadelphi... read more
Signac was one of the original organizers of the Salon des Independents in 1884 and was its president for nearly 30 years. Impressionists, Fauves, Symbolists, Nabis - like the Hendersons, ... read more
1,500 years of cultural history: to accompany the tremendous exhibition at the British Museum that shows the many influences that have created contemporary Myanmar.
A catalogue to accompany the celebration of Charleston at Philip Mould's gallery, using items from its exquisite collection and from private lenders too. Excellent essays about the growth of... read more
The Tate exhibition is a retrospective of Dante Gabriel Rossetti, but it also features the largest exhibition there has been of Elizabeth Siddal's work.
The Tate exhibition is a retrospective of Dante Gabriel Rossetti, but it also features the largest exhibition there has been of Elizabeth Siddal's work. (There is also a paperback edition of... read more
Climate, exploration, Arctic peoples, trade, material culture and the present - wonders to be shown, d.v., at the British Museum from late May this year.
Modern British artists in the inter-war period: Evelyn Dunbar, Douglas Percy Bliss, Charles Mahoney, Gilbert Spencer, Clare Leighton, Eric Ravilious, Tirzah Garwood et alia. A slim catalogue... read more
Catalogue of the exhibition at Pallant House, in Chichester, which spans the life and work of this glorious, famously happy artist. With contributions by Ian Collins, David Attenborough, Edm... read more
Turner, Ravilious, Vanessa Bell, Duncan Grant, Ivon Hitchens, Edward Burra, Eileen Agar, et alia . To accompany this winter's exhibition at Pallant House, Chichester.
A black and white Who's Who of the roaring twenties and thirties - this ab fab show at the NPG is given breadth by the inclusion of works by Henry Lamb, Rex Whistler, Christopher Wood and ot... read more