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3 weeks ago | 
theartnewspaper.com | Alexander Morrison |Florence Hallett |Benjamin Sutton
As the art world descends on Hong Kong for Art Basel , museums and galleries begin launching their summer blockbusters. These are the exhibitions opening in April that caught our eye. This exhibition is part of the 75th anniversary celebrations of the William Morris Gallery, housed in a mansion the artist lived in as a teenager.
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3 weeks ago | 
theartnewspaper.com | Florence Hallett |Ben Luke |Gareth Harris |David. Clack
A major survey of the Portuguese abstract painter Maria Helena Vieira da Silva (1908-92) opens at the Peggy Guggenheim Collection in Venice this April, before travelling to the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao in the autumn.
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1 month ago | 
theartnewspaper.com | Vittoria Benzine |Florence Hallett |Torey Akers |Sophia Kishkovsky
The psychedelic artists Alex and Allyson Grey regularly welcome worshippers to their Chapel of Sacred Mirrors (Cosm) in Wappingers Falls, New York for full moons and “Art Church”. But Cosm only unveils a new lineup of contemporary Visionary art in their Entheon museum’s All One gallery once a year.
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1 month ago | 
theartnewspaper.com | Florence Hallett |Anny Shaw |Aimee Dawson
To the Italian sculptor Medardo Rosso, the history of Western sculpture had produced little more than “paperweights”. He did not care for marble, the worthiest of the sculptor’s materials, choosing instead the poverty and impermanence of wax and plaster. Used together, as in Portinaia (1883-84), he created sculptures that appear to be disintegrating before our eyes. Even bronze he insisted on casting himself, rather than delegating the work to an elaborately staffed foundry.
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2 months ago | 
theartnewspaper.com | Florence Hallett |Nancy Kenney |Gareth Harris |James Imam
A new National Trust paint archive will, for the first time, bring together thousands of historic paint samples in a UK facility with a laboratory and archive and staffed by the trust’s first in-house heritage scientist. With funding awarded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council, the archive will be established over the next two years at the Royal Oak Foundation Conservation Studio at Knole in Kent.
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2 months ago | 
theartnewspaper.com | Florence Hallett |Hannah McGivern |Sebastian Smee
Since her death, Ithell Colquhoun (1906-88) has been better known as an occultist than an artist. Now, her reputation as a leading figure of British Surrealism is being restored, in an exhibition exploring for the first time the connections between these two facets of her life. Between Worlds, the biggest exhibition of her work ever staged, opens at Tate St Ives this month before later travelling to Tate Britain in London.
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Jan 15, 2025 | 
theartnewspaper.com | Florence Hallett
Semi-derelict and out of use for almost 50 years following the death of Barbara Hepworth in 1975, the former dance hall in which the artist created some of her best known works is set to reopen as an exhibition, learning, event and community space, the latest addition to Tate’s St Ives portfolio.
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Jan 14, 2025 | 
theneweuropean.co.uk | Florence Hallett
Swastikas in St James’s – it sounds like the title of a bad political thriller. The truth is more prosaic, and a lot more shocking, piling on further evidence of the tolerance extended to Hitler and his Nazi regime by the British in the lead-up to the second world war.
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Jan 10, 2025 | 
theartnewspaper.com | Florence Hallett
“I am the first English abstract artist (not the first female artist) to have made an international reputation,” wrote Paule Vézelay (1892-1984) in 1980. It is a bold claim, but Simon Grant, the curator of the artist’s first dedicated exhibition in over 40 years, points out that a lost 1928 drawing easily pre-dates the shift to abstraction by contemporaries Ben Nicholson, Barbara Hepworth and Henry Moore. “I’ve been wanting to do [an exhibition] for a long time,” Grant says, “it’s long overdue.
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Dec 19, 2024 | 
theartnewspaper.com | Gareth Harris |Aimee Dawson |Alexander Morrison |Dale Berning Sawa |Elizabeth Fortescue |Ben Luke | +5 more
