Search results for: first look

Gallery: ‘Lights Out’ commemorates First World War centenary

A look back at last week’s light-based commissions marking the outbreak of the First World War

11 Aug 2014

Art Outlook: 7 August

What is the light over London? Can children understand art? And what are tortoises doing in the Aspen Art Museum?

7 Aug 2014

Looking Good: National Gallery exhibitions promote close looking

‘Making Colour’ and ‘Building the Picture’ point out details in paintings that are easily overlooked

28 Jul 2014

Art Outlook: 17 July

Cancelled shows, contested ownership, online auctions and contemporary art in the countryside… some of the stories we’ve spotted this week

17 Jul 2014

Art Outlook: 10 July

Record-breaking sales; the Museum of the Year; Abramovic wears Adidas; and censored pubic hair…

10 Jul 2014

Art Outlook: 3 July

Funding, Manifesta and internet memes… a round-up of recent news and discussion

3 Jul 2014
The Mauritshuis, The Hague.

Art Outlook: 26 June

Top jobs, major refurbishments, and big blockbuster shows: a round-up of news and discussion this week

26 Jun 2014

Art Outlook: 19 June

The V&A in China; Brad Pitt in Glasgow; Manifesta in Russia; and the Chapman Brothers at home in Hastings…

19 Jun 2014

Art Outlook: 5 June

News from the art world this week

5 Jun 2014

Review: ‘The First Georgians’ at The Queen’s Gallery

A new exhibition brings the circumstances of the Hanoverian Succession centre stage

1 May 2014

Art Outlook: 24 April

‘Slipstream’, Steve McQueen and sex in art… Some of the stories that have caught our eye this week

24 Apr 2014

Curators, connoisseurship and the art of looking

Connoisseurship is still valuable, and many art historians know it

16 Apr 2014

Art Outlook: 10 April

Big sales have been made and announced this week, and a few high-profile figures have come under fire

10 Apr 2014

Looking Ahead: Anselm Kiefer’s retrospective at the Royal Academy

Kiefer’s first UK retrospective is a major coup for the RA

3 Apr 2014

Art Outlook: 6 March

Our weekly round-up of art world news, comments and stories from around the web

6 Mar 2014

Great View: the UK’s first art history festival

‘View Festival’ in London was a great success: it seems bizarre that nothing like this has ever taken place in the city before

19 Feb 2014

Art Outlook: 6 February

Fakes, lawsuits and feminism… Stories from the art world that have caught our eye this week

6 Feb 2014

Lisbon Looks East

The Museu do Oriente in Lisbon looks at Portugal’s recent links with the East as well as its longer history in the region

29 Oct 2013

What would Pericles want for the Parthenon marbles?

After a week in which a British prime minister has realised, seemingly for the first time, that Greece would quite like the Parthenon marbles back, it’s worth taking a longer view

3 Dec 2023
Coffee service for Alice Belin du Pont (designed 1910–11), Tiffany and Company. Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven

Gilt complex – ‘Gold in America’ at Yale University Art Gallery, reviewed

The gold objects in this show may glitter, but some of their previous owners are cast in a far from flattering light

5 Apr 2022

Fine Arts Paris and beyond – what’s in store in the French capital this month

The fair underscores its links with the museum world in its third edition. Plus highlights from Paris Photo and Also Known as Africa

6 Nov 2019

Nan Goldin leads protest at the Met’s Sackler Wing

Art news daily: 12 March

12 Mar 2018
Ralph Rugoff, director of the Hayward Gallery, London, who is to curate the Venice Biennale in 2019,

Ralph Rugoff to curate 2019 Venice Biennale

Art news daily: 15 December

15 Dec 2017
Gillian Wearing with a model of suffragist leader Millicent Fawcett, Photo: Caroline Teo/GLA/PA

‘Millicent Fawcett and Gillian Wearing are a winning combination’

The design for Millicent Fawcett’s statue breaks the mould, but Parliament Square is a problematic site

26 Sep 2017