By Jacqueline Knox This exhibition at Tate Modern gives a real insight into the working methods of Picasso. It highlights not only how he worked from month to month but also emphasises the context in which he produced this work. You see some seminal works by Picasso but you also see some fabulous drawings,…
Gustave Moreau (1826-1898) had a genius idea: to share with the public an enchanting world, as well as that of the life of a 19th-century bourgeois family. To pull this off, he features a well thought-out museum; his apartment is designed exactly to his taste and even has a room dedicated to Alexandrine. The first…
By Jacqueline Knox 🇫🇷VERSION FRANCAISE The first large-scale exhibition in the UK of the work of American artist Jean Michel Basquiat (1960-1988) – Barbican Centre. 21st September 2017 – 28th January 2018 This exhibition is just amazing and a must visit if you are in town. It is staged chronologically from room to room which helps to…
until 21st January 2018 By Jacqueline Knox As you walk into the Tate Britain gallery towards the exhibition space of Rachel Whiteread you are confronted by a series of casts of resin. Untitled (One Hundred Spaces) 1995, reproduced with kind permission Tate © They are a series of casts of the negative space underneath wooden…
🇬🇧 Now, a look back on FIAC 2017! It was another exciting week of contemporary art in Paris from October 18-22. A video made for The Gaze of a Parisienne with photos by Thibaut Le Maire. Flagship installations like Tomas Saraceno’s spider webs, a reunion with Claire Morgan (I suggest visiting her installations at the…
🇫🇷VERSION FRANCAISE Today, contemporary Arabic art is slightly less “trendy” than is African art. Indeed, there is a vast array of expositions dedicated to Africa, the new continent of art, the new Eldorado. Such exhibits, housed in the two powerhouses of the Jaques-Chirac museum (the Quai Branly Museum and the Cartier foundation), bring artistic…
VERSION FRANCAISE Auguste Rodin is monumental, and celebrating the 100th anniversary of his death is an ode to the art of sculpting. Of his well-known works, those considered true symbols are “The Bourgeois of Calais,” “The Gates of Hell,” “The Kiss,” “Balzac,” and even “The Thinker.” These sculptures were all presented in 1993 at…
