What a lovely idea from some lovely people. Every day visitors to their site send them facts, and they pick one to turn into an illustration. Manchester based design agency Young have signed a deal …

by Leo Kent

For an artist who paved the way for Abstract Expressionism in America, Armenian born Arshile Gorky should be more of a household name today. Hopefully this will be rectified in some small …

by Leo Kent

Both Gaudier and Gill befriended and were heavily influenced by the innovative and progressive Epstein and all three can be regarded as pioneers of modern art through their radical creations. …

by Gabriella Apicella
In recent years, Halloween has become sanitised by greetings cards companies into a cheap, plasticated cliché, and the myths, fables and sacred traditions that were once observed at this time of year are …

Leo Kent

For those of you who are becoming a little weary of the constant barrage of iconic images from the 1960s then you wouldn’t be alone. This is not to deny the cultural significance of …

by Leo Kent
Initially it is hard to work out what form of art you are here to view: photography or architecture. In fact you are looking at not one or other but the symbiotic relationship …

by Gabriel Byng

Some exhibitions bring together the most unexpected of combinations – Turner and Rothko at the Tate Britain, for example, or Hobbes’ Leviathan and Frith’s Victorian Derby Day in Picturing the …

by Gabriel Byng

At the turn of the 20th Century in Vienna, madness was in. Psychiatrists enjoyed a boom in business, academics mused on new and outlandish treatments for insanity and the fashionable classes frequented luxury, …

by Leo Kent

If you entered this exhibition without prior knowledge of the artist or the era and had to date these paintings, I guarantee most would say not before the mid-twentieth century, some would even …

by Leo Kent
Tate Modern
12 February -17 May 2009

In most circumstances art should stand on its own devoid of context and then be judged. But not so with Constructivism, so entangled is it with the Russian …

by Gabriel Byng
Andrea Palladio
Royal Academy
31 Jan—13 Apr 2009

Palladio occupies a uniquely influential position in the history of architecture. There is no other single architect who has had such an extraordinary impact on what we build, …

by Gabriel Byng

Level 2 Gallery, Tate Modern
9 December 2008 – 29 March 2009
Free
Like the glutinous monster from a 1950s horror flick Ingubo Yesizwe rears drunkenly in the Level 2 gallery window …

by Sarah Baldwin
Francis Bacon
Tate Britain  Linbury Galleries
Thursday 11 September 2008 – Sunday 4 January 2009
Admission £12.50 ( £10.50 concessions)
Some exhibitions succeed in redefining an artist, bringing him back to the fore and evoking …