The cutting edge
THE year 1543 is notable in the history of science as the date of publication of Copernicus’s treatise De Revolutionibus.
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Into the inferno
FAR too much art has been hawked to jaded audiences, in recent decades of promoblather, as confronting or shocking.
Style over substance
ART historians sometimes disagree about the national affiliation of an artist who has been long resident in another country.
Smart choice
JEFFREY Smart’s oeuvre has become a meditation on a repertoire of themes that have allowed him to develop consistently through many years.
American angst
THE claims of photography to veracity, and the fallacy of such claims, were discussed here some weeks ago in reviewing the Jeff Wall exhibition.
Disparate motifs woven into singularity
THINGS float away in Ken Whisson’s paintings. They overlap and coincide in unexpected ways.
Paradise lost
DEATH is the final reality of human life, and not just for the banal reason that we are all destined to die in the end.
Between suburbia and radicalism
WE are so used to the extraordinary dynamism and rate of change in the modern Western world that we forget most cultures hardly change at all.
Smoke and mirrors
MINIMALISTS and post-minimalists are the subject of an exhibition at the Heide Museum of Modern Art.
French style
PARIS is documented by Eugene Atget in photographs from the last decade of the 19th and the first decades of the 20th centuries.
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