Armory Show-Modern: Quality up on last year
Much of the best work on offer has been teased out of private collections
By Brook S. Mason | From Armory daily edition, 5 Mar 10
Published online 5 Mar 10

Edvard Munch’s Coastline near Aasgaardstrand sold for $6m

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Drawing and painting are about observing, seeing and communicating information. At one time drawing and painting were the most advanced ways of communicating data from one person to another! For this reason ’seeing’ and interpreting the world is at the heart of learning to draw and paint. The eyes and, …

 
There aren’t many people who could put a face to Gary Hume, even if they could spot one of his glossy, candy-coloured paintings a mile off. Of the gaggle of late-Eighties Goldsmiths graduates who enjoyed the patronage of Charles Saatchi and Jay Jopling, and later became known as the YBAs …

It was when 20th-century British artists stopped trying to be modernists that they started to create honest, significant work
What with Henry Moore at Tate and Paul Nash at Dulwich Picture Gallery, it seems the art of 20th-century Britain is enjoying an unexpected revival. Obviously, coincidences like this are just coincidences. …

Artist Chiharu Shiota’s labyrinthine installations weave a complex web from waking life and fading memories
Chiharu Shiota is a spider-woman – one who clambers around in the skeins of our unconscious. In her best-known installations she weaves black yarn into hectic webs that take over entire galleries and in which personal …

‘Surfacing’ by Michelle Leon. Photo: Conrad Cookson

A Leeds-based artist’s life affirming exploration of new ways of working, carried out in collaboration with a small group of fellow artists, formed the basis for a visual arts exhibition shown recently in Wakefield.
Pretending to be a mermaid and other stories featured new work …

Ackermann’s exhibition at White Cube references century-old techniques but feels thrillingly contemporary
Recently I moaned about the abuse of the term “modern art” to describe the art of today. The joy of working as a critic is that every theoretical notion you may have is going to be contradicted by empirical …

Artist story # 5 [19 February 2010]

Well I have just been back home for about an hour or so and it has taken me that long to warm up having been out looking for treasure for four hours! I really am hopeless at all this field work..went out in my favourite vintage …

Detached heads, lone legs, severed hands and limbless torsos twist upon the walls, but the current show of Bronzino’s drawings at the Metropolitan Museum of Art is anything but lurid. The museum has mustered an anthology of fragments, a heap of austere evidence for a truth we keep forgetting: that …

From office blocks to shopping streets, Moore’s sculptures are part of the fabric of Britain – so much so that we no longer notice. A new Tate retrospective wants to make us look again
As a new Tate retrospective prepares to open, it can be difficult to judge the reputation of …