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In Conversation with Yayoi Kusama
For an artist who has spent her lifetime lobbying for peace, Yayoi Kusama uses the word 'fight' a lot. The 75-year old artist a...
December 19, 2013
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The Elemental Expressions of Olafur Eliasson
Round Rainbow Art comes in many forms, but one thing all those forms have in common is their rather hopeless dependence on light – so...
December 09, 2013
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Painting: The Death of Russia
December 04, 2013
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Odilon Redon: Art born from the disingenuous
Icarus, 1890 The most radical forces in art are not, as most people assume, genius, inspiration, or sheer talent, but instead a lack...
December 04, 2013
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The Candid Canvas of the Barbizon School
Women Picking Daisies (1865-70) by Jean Baptiste-Camille Corot In the mid-19th century the French village of Barbizon was the artis...
November 30, 2013
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Collection: "Masks" by Anonymous
Although I sometimes pay for it, most of the art that I collect I actually get for free. As I'm a famous art writer, artists give m...
November 25, 2013
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Mixed Media: Swedish Shadows
November 25, 2013
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Shoen Uemura: Beauty for Whom?
Do women depict their own sex differently than men? This is one of the questions to arise from the exhibition Shoen Uemura and Bijinga:...
November 22, 2013
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Ilya Repin: Reading Between the Lines of Realism
They Did Not Expect Him, 1884-8 Nineteenth century Russia is far better known for its composers and writers than for its artists. ...
November 11, 2013
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Sonia Delauney: Chasing Rainbows
Colored Rhythm, 1946 Ever go to an exhibition and think, "Hey, I can do that." If the passivity of being an art grazer is...
October 19, 2013
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Make-up as Art: Ayami Nishimura by Rankin
In the long history of art the earliest canvas was probably our own skin, as primitive man first took to daubing his uniquely hairless ...
October 12, 2013
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Hasegawa Tohaku Gets His Due
Tigers and Bamboo (detail) The present exhibition at the Idemitsu Museum, "New Discovery: The Beauty of Hasegawa Tōhaku," h...
September 30, 2013
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Drawing: Zen Number One
September 26, 2013
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James Ensor: A Touch of Madness
The Intrigue (1890) The impression given by the prints, paintings, and drawings of the Belgian artist James Ensor (1860-1949) is of a...
September 25, 2013
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The Disconcerting Unity of Raphael
Madonna del Granduca Harmony can sometimes have a disconcerting side. This is one insight to emerge from the Raphael exhibition at th...
September 23, 2013
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A Candle Held up to a Rediscovered Master: Georges de La Tour
The Dream of Saint Joseph, c. 1640 Most of the great artists are instantly recognizable. As soon as you see one of their works, you i...
September 14, 2013
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Maurice Utrillo: Un peintre solitaire qui aimait Paris
Lapin Agile, 1914 Maurice Utrillo is one of those artists who seem to defy gravity. When you take a good, long look at his canvases a...
August 28, 2013
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The Rich Restlessness of Rubens
The Resurrected Christ Triumphant (ca. 1616) The 17th-century Flemish baroque artist Peter Paul Rubens is a great historical painter...
July 17, 2013
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Francis Bacon:The Restlessness of Human Existence
Study of George Dyer, 1969 In the 1989 Tim Burton film Batman , there is a famous scene where the Joker and his gang break into an ...
July 16, 2013
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Mixed Media: Bird
This is a mixed media work I created in about five seconds, using a found object, namely a blurry photo from an exhibition catalogue, an...
July 12, 2013
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Rembrandt Still Outshines Vermeer
Susanna by Rembrandt The first exhibition at the newly renovated Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Art (TMMA) was always going to be an im...
July 12, 2013
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Joan Miro: Graffiti for a Post-Franco Spain
House with Palm Tree, 1918 No artist's life and work – not even Picasso's – better represents the modern history of Spain as ...
June 19, 2013
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Collection: Skull Doodle by Doctor Lakra
Back in 2008 I was covering the "Goth" exhibition at the Yokohama Museum of Art for the International Herald Tribune Asahi S...
April 20, 2013
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Left Alone With Henri Le Sidaner
La Table bleue, Gerberoy, 1923 There are several points at which the conventional language of art criticism breaks down. The French p...
March 19, 2013
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Iwami Furusawa: One man’s porn is...
Daughter of Bacchus (1983) Sexuality is polymorphous. It has to be. This is because — rightly or wrongly — it often faces rigid repre...
February 15, 2013
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