Exhibitions

June 1994archive

R.B. Kitaj: 'I begin my working day by falling asleep in front of my easel'

The American artist, who has lived in Britain for the past 35 years, is celebrated with a large exhibition at the Tate

Calder for sale in London

Tapping into the artist's popularity after the success of his RA appearance

Pugin, founder of modernism, in a riot of polychromy at the V&A

A major survey of the high priest of the Gothic Revival

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The Warhol estate undervalued, finds court

The judge’s ruling resolves the crux of the legal war between the foundation and the lawyer for Warhol’s estate

Sardinian antiquities on show in Paris accused of being fake

Leading expert queries items in exhibition, all of which come from private collections

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Hiring out the collection: the Whitney does, MoMA doesn’t

Collection leasing provides a fundraising alternative for some museums, and a surrogate permanent collection for others

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V&A strangles its watercolours with artspeak

Illustrations partially compensate for jargon

Frank Lloyd Wright retrospective at MoMA

The exhibition covers the span of his seventy year career, and includes a huge range of works and materials

A new view of Picasso as sculptor and painter at the Tate

The Tate Gallery's major spring exhibition is a reassessment of the role of sculpture in Picasso's career

At last we have a serious decorative arts show: John Channon at the V&A,

The Victoria and Albert Museum may be getting back into its stride as the world's top decorative art museum if the exhibition is anything to go by.

Classical taste in America, Washington's official style

Neo-classicism as expressed in painting sculpture and the decorative arts in a touring exhibition

Morozov's music room reconstructed in the State Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts

Exhibition of Russia's two most famous fin-de-siècle collectors now on in Moscow

Attendance and profits of the Venice Biennale's 49th edition

This year marks a comeback, but there is still room for improvement

Ben Nicholson's ascending or descending reputation

Ben Nicholson centenary commemorated at the Tate

All the versatility of Leonardo da Vinci on glorious display in Siena

Siena is celebrating a great master from her Renaissance past with exhibitions on his painting, sculpture, architecture and engineering

Major Latin American art exhibition arrives in New York this month

This will be the largest show of modern Latin American art to be presented in the United States

That famous light on Bacon: Museo Correr shows major retrospective

David Sylvester curates an exhibition of the artist's finest works in Napoleonic rooms

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Spielberg/Time Warner museum for Norman Rockwell

Increased attendance to the artist's Stockbridge museum has spawned a massive expansion project funded by the Rockwell of cinema

Malévich to be exhibited in Madrid, Barcelona, and Valencia

The exhibition will show just 42 pictures from the early 19th century, including “Black square on a white ground”

Life is a game; life is art

From 4 April to 18 July the Palazzo Grassi is showing a 300- work exhibition by Pontus Hulten of the work of Marcel Duchamp,the artist whose ideas have pricked through the whole history of twentieth-century art. Here we publish one of his last interviews, made in 1966

Only two years since his last show, Max Ernst exhibition opens at the MoMA this month

“Max Ernst: Dada and the Dawn of Surrealism” concentrates upon fifteen years of fertile activity until 1927

Swiss Bacon exhibition includes work he tried to destroy

Lugano makes attempt to compensate for losing best of the Thyssen collection

Rozhdestwjenski exhibition, to be shown at Gmurzynska, just one of many Eastern European artists promoted and placed in Western museums by the Gmurzynska family

Exhibition, “Under the Sign of the Red Cross”, showing works by Rozhdestwjenski, disciple of Suprematist founder Malévich, is one of many before "Premierentage"

What's On in Paris: Marthe Wery's indoor infrastructure, Giacometti's drawings and John Coplans's images of anatomy

Also, Di Meo houses Jean-François Briant's agricultural symbols and Vidal-Saint Phalle partners with Saint-Etienne's Museum of Modern Art for Vincent Bioules show