Exhibitions
Turner and Claude exhibited together in 'Pure as Italian Air'
Unfortunately this excellent showcase of the master of landscape has been overlooked due to its lack of catalogue
Book review: Stephen Hackney, Rica Jones and Joyce Townsend (eds), Paint and purpose: a study of technique in British art
(Tate Publications, London, 2000), 216 pp, 74 b/w ills, 116 col. ills, £19.99 (pb) ISBN 1854372483
Artists of the world united
Cities provide the context for many of the 20th century’s most important innovations, but are also environments in which literature, music, art and thought merge, split or collide with one another. Tate Modern’s first major exhibition since opening ambitiously comprises nine sections, 13 curators and 1,500 works spread over two floors. The display combines the scale and global scope of an international biennial with the historical perspective of art’s most varied century
The Joule Archive to go on show at Barbican: Will the real Mr Bacon please stand up?
A second exhibition of Barry Joule’s collection, left to him by Francis Bacon his former neighbour, is still a matter of dispute with the Bacon Estate
Gardening and art at the National Portrait Gallery
Women’s studies blended with the media biography and botanical illustration
Star Wars exhibition opens in Bradford
“The Art of Star Wars”, National Museum of Photography, Film and Television, Bradford, until 29 April 2001
Haacke engages Serpentine and V&A in “dialogues”
Artistic exchange to take place next year
What's on in London: Rodney Graham combines history and rock’n’roll at the Lisson
Louisa Buck’s choice of London contemporary galleries
Ten minutes with Lars Nittve on the opening of Tate Modern
Director explains how London’s most popular new tourist attraction set its exhibition policy
Interview with Marc Quinn on moving away from his body
The artist talks about truncation in art and life as his show opens at White Cube2
Warhol tour begins in Russia
Russia’s first Andy Warhol exhibition has opened at the State Hermitage Museum
What's on in London: Miro on Demand
Dresdeners at White Cube2, Anselm Kiefer at D’Offay
The consensus is that one of the world’s greatest museums, the V&A, has lost its way. A strong leader is needed.
Decorative arts flagship seeks captain who believes in its contents and curators
London contemporary galleries: Painting, painting everywhere
Iconic interiors at Gagosian, pucker and slide at Mummery, some great British grub at Holdsworth, painterly lavatory walls at Anthony Reynolds, strange girlish doodles at Cabinet, while Vic Reeves turns artist at Percy Miller
Bridget Riley makes waves at new Tate Britain retrospective
Riley was heavily involved in the curation of this exhibition alongside Paul Moorhouse
Collector profile: Gustav Rau, Schweitzer redivivus
A doctor in a remote village in the Congo, part of Dr Rau's thousand-strong collection is on display now in Paris.
A walk through Andy Goldsworthy’s environmental sculptures currently on view in his first US retrospective
The main gallery spaces with three bold installations in clay, stone and wood
One of the few remaining German private collections of Gothic and Renaissance sculpture contains some magnificent pieces but provides little insight into its history
The exhibition disappoints and leaves the collector’s passion concealed
Panamarenko on show at Jean Tinguely Museum, Basel
The exhibition will run from 17 May until 15 October
The once and future MoMA: The museum's double role plays out across two exhibitions
Across two venues MoMA presents one exhibition examining the past, while a collaboration on another focuses on the future of art
Anatomies of exhibitions: Tate Britain. "To define British art"
Director Stephen Deuchar and curators Christine Riding and Robin Hamlyn reveal how they choose the shows
Beuys born again in Venice with new show
Piazza San Marco hosts the first Italian exhibition dedicated to the artist since his death
Should the new Holocaust gallery be a permanent feature of this museum?
The Imperial War Museum's exhibition is intended as a reminder of past evil
What's on in London: Fischl’s phases at Gagosian, suburban subversion at Anthony Wilkinson, and dysfunctional families at Gimpel Fils
Meanwhile there is clutter in the Cabinet, recent Kossoffs at Annely Juda, and randomised exactitude at Corvi-Mora
“Overcoming all obstacles: Women of the Académie Julian”
Exhibition shows at Dixon Gallery, Memphis, 9 July-24 September
Agatha Christie and the Orient: Adventures on the Nile.
With over 200 objects on loan from the British Museum an exhibition which charts Agatha Christie’s travels in the Orient.
Putting Matisse and Picasso back in the ring at Tate Modern
Matisse wanted his art to be like a comfortable easy chair, while Picasso preferred to think of art as a weapon. But did these statements correspond with reality?
London galleries: The naked Cubes
Sadie Coles in an eastward position, the Lisson and Tim Taylor times two, photography at Frith Street and Maureen Paley, plus powerful juju at Anthony Reynolds