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ArtReview
''ArtReview'' is an international contemporary art magazine based in London, founded in 1948. Its sister publication, ''ArtReview Asia'', was established in 2013. History Launched as a fortnightly broadsheet in February 1949 by a retired country medical practitioner, Dr Richard Gainsborough, and the first edition was designed by his wife, the artist Eileen Mayo, ''Arts News and Review'' set out to champion contemporary art in Britain, providing its readers with commentary, news and reviews. At the outset its focus was set firmly on the artist – its regular cover ‘Portrait of the artist’ introduced its readership to emerging artists as well as reconnecting with the past masters of modernism from before the war. Cover artists included Édouard Manet, Henry Moore, Barbara Hepworth and Lucian Freud. As its editorial would declare in 1954, Art News and Review's purpose was ‘to stimulate the criticism of contemporary art, to give to both painters and writers space they would ne ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ai Weiwei
Ai Weiwei ( ; , IPA: ; born 28 August 1957) is a Chinese contemporary artist, documentarian, and activist. Ai grew up in the far northwest of China, where he lived under harsh conditions due to his father's exile. As an activist, he has been openly critical of the Chinese Government's stance on democracy and human rights. He investigated government corruption and cover-ups, in particular the Sichuan schools corruption scandal following the collapse of " tofu-dreg schools" in the 2008 Sichuan earthquake. In April 2011, Ai Weiwei was arrested at Beijing Capital International Airport for "economic crimes," and detained for 81 days without charge. Ai Weiwei emerged as a vital instigator in Chinese cultural development, an architect of Chinese modernism, and one of the nation's most vocal political commentators. Ai Weiwei encapsulates political conviction and poetry in his many sculptures, photographs, and public works. Since being allowed to leave China in 2015, he has lived in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eileen Mayo
Dame Eileen Rosemary Mayo (11 September 1906 – 4 January 1994) was a British artist and designer who worked in England, Australia and New Zealand in almost every available medium – drawings, woodcuts, lithographs on stone and tempera, tapestry and silk screening. In addition to being a printmaker, illustrator, calligrapher and muralist, she designed coins, stamps, tapestry and posters, and wrote and illustrated eight books on natural science. Life in England Mayo was born in Norwich and educated in Yorkshire and the Clifton High School, Bristol. She had a thorough grounding in art, studying at the Slade School in London from 1924 to 1925, the Central School of Arts and Crafts under Noel Rooke and John Farleigh, and under Henry Moore at the Chelsea Polytechnic in 1936. In 1927, Mayo was instructed in lino-cutting by Claude Flight over the telephone. Her resulting print was called "Turkish Bath", which was included in the Redfern Gallery's 'First Exhibition of British Lino ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Reyner Banham
Peter Reyner Banham (2 March 1922 – 19 March 1988) was an English architectural critic and writer best known for his theoretical treatise ''Theory and Design in the First Machine Age'' (1960) and for his 1971 book ''Los Angeles: The Architecture of Four Ecologies''. In the latter he categorized the Los Angeles experience into four ecological models (Surfurbia, Foothills, The Plains of Id, and Autopia) and explored the distinct architectural cultures of each. A frequent visitor to the United States from the early 1960s, he relocated there in 1976. Early life and education eterReyner Banham was born in Norwich, England to Percy Banham, a gas engineer, and Violet Frances Maud Reyner. He was educated at Norwich School and gained an engineering scholarship with the Bristol Aeroplane Company, where he spent much of the Second World War. In Norwich he gave art lectures, wrote reviews for the local paper and was involved with the Maddermarket Theatre. In 1949 Banham entered the Cou ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lawrence Alloway
Lawrence Reginald Alloway (17 September 1926 – 2 January 1990) was an English art critic and curator who worked in the United States from 1961. In the 1950s, he was a leading member of the Independent Group in the UK and in the 1960s was an influential writer and curator in the US. He first used the term "mass popular art" in the mid-1950s and used the term " Pop Art" in the 1960s to indicate that art has a basis in the popular culture of its day and takes from it a faith in the power of images. From 1954 until his death in 1990, he was married to the painter Sylvia Sleigh. Early life and education Between 1943 and 1947, Alloway studied art history at the University of London, where he met the future critic and curator David Sylvester. Alloway wrote short book reviews for the London '' Times'' in 1944 and 1945, at which time he was between 17 and 19 years old. Work Early career and the Independent Group Alloway started writing reviews for the British periodical ''Art News an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hans Haacke
Hans Haacke (born August 12, 1936) is a German-born artist who lives and works in New York City. Haacke is considered a "leading exponent" of institutional critique, and is considered to be the most harsh and consistent critic of museums among the Euro-American artists of his time. Early life Haacke was born in Cologne, Germany. He studied at the ''Staatliche Werkakademie'' in Kassel, Germany, from 1956 to 1960. In 1959, Haacke was hired to assist with the II. documenta, second documenta, working as a guard and tour guide. He was a student of Stanley William Hayter, a well-known and influential English printmaker, draftsman, and painter. From 1961 to 1962, he studied on a Fulbright grant at the Tyler School of Art at Temple University in Philadelphia. From 1967 to 2002, Haacke was a professor at the Cooper Union in New York City. During his formative years in Germany, he was a member of Zero (an international group of artists, active ca. 1957–1966).Haacke, Hans. ''Framing and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Janet Daley
Janet Daley (born 21 March 1944) is an American-born conservative journalist living and working in Britain. She is currently a columnist for ''The Sunday Telegraph''. Life and career Daley studied philosophy at the University of California at Berkeley, after which, in 1965, she moved to England, where she received an MPhil in philosophy at the University of London.Geoffrey Broadbent and Anthony Ward (eds), ''Design Methods in Architecture'', Lund Humphries, 1968. She then taught philosophy at the Open University, the University of London and the Royal College of Art. Daley left academia in 1987 to become a full time journalist. She first wrote for ''The Times'', ''The Sunday Times'', ''The Independent'' and ''The Spectator''. In 1989, she became a columnist for ''The Independent'', followed in 1990 by ''The Times'', before moving to ''The Sunday Telegraph'' in 1996. During the 1960s, while still a student, Daley identified as a Marxist. During the 1980s, she was a member of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jasia Reichardt
Jasia Reichardt (born Janina Chaykin; 13 November 1933) is a British art critic, curator, art gallery director, teacher and prolific writer, specialist in the emergence of computer art. In 1968 she was curator of the landmark ''Cybernetic Serendipity'' exhibition at London's Institute of Contemporary Arts. She is generally known for her work on experimental art. After the deaths of Franciszka Themerson, Franciszka and Stefan Themerson she catalogued their archive and looks after their legacy. Her own self-description reads: Jasia Reichardt writes, lectures and organises events about subjects which deal with the relationship of art to other areas of human activity such as architecture, science, technology. She was assistant director of the ICA, director of the Whitechapel Art Gallery, and tutor at the Architectural Association, AA. She has written books on art, computers, robots and the future. Childhood Jasia Reichardt was born to Maryla Weinles and Seweryn Chaykin in Warsaw, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richard Cork
Richard Cork (born 25 March 1947) is a British art historian, editor, critic, broadcaster and exhibition curator. He has been an art critic for the ''Evening Standard'', '' The Listener'', ''The Times'' and the ''New Statesman''. Cork was also editor for Studio International. He is a past Turner Prize judge. Early life Richard Cork was educated at Kingswood School, Bath (1960–1964). He read art history at the University of Cambridge and was awarded his doctorate in 1978. Career Cork was Slade Professor of Fine Art at Cambridge from 1980 to 1990, and the Henry Moore Senior Fellow at the Courtauld Institute of Art in London from 1992 to 1995. He then served as Chair of the Visual Arts Panel at the Arts Council of England until 1998. Committees he has sat on have included that of the Hayward Gallery, the British Council's Visual Art Committee and the advisory council for the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art. He has also been on the panel of judges for the Turne ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peter Fuller
Peter Michael Fuller (31 August 1947 – 28 April 1990) was a British art critic, documentarian, author (of more than 15 books), and founder and editor of the magazine '' Modern Painters''. Early life and education Peter Fuller was born in Damascus, Syria, and educated at Epsom College and Peterhouse, Cambridge.Griffiths, Dennis (1992) ''The Encyclopedia of the British Press 1422-1992'', London and Basingstoke: Macmillan, p.256. Career In the early 1970s, Fuller wrote for the radical newspapers '' Black Dwarf'' and ''Seven Days'', and was responsible for establishing the latter, "a short-lived Marxist glossy weekly".Irwin, Robert (2011"Memoirs of a Dervish: Sufis, Mystics and the Sixties" London: Profile Books, p.182. This page number was derived from the source URL.) Fuller subsequently freelanced elsewhere. Fuller was the founder and founding editor of the quarterly magazine '' Modern Painters'', launched in 1987, a work "principally... bring ngattention to British artis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gilbert & George
Gilbert Prousch, sometimes referred to as Gilbert Proesch (born 17 September 1943), and George Passmore (born 8 January 1942) are artists who work together as the collaborative art duo Gilbert & George. They are known for their formal appearance and manner in performance art, and for their brightly coloured graphic-style photo-based artworks. In 2017 the pair celebrated their 50th anniversary as collaborators. In April 2023 Gilbert & George opened the Gilbert & George Centre in Heneage Street, London E1, to showcase their work in regular exhibitions. Early lives Gilbert Prousch was born in San Martin de Tor in Alto Adige South Tyrol, northern Italy, his native language being Ladin. He studied art at the Sëlva School of Art in Val Gardena and Hallein School of Art in Austria and the Akademie der Kunst, Munich, before moving to England. George Passmore was born in Plymouth in the United Kingdom, to a single mother in a low-income household. He dropped out of regular schoo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Margaret Thatcher
Margaret Hilda Thatcher, Baroness Thatcher (; 13 October 19258 April 2013), was a British stateswoman who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1979 to 1990 and Leader of the Conservative Party (UK), Leader of the Conservative Party from 1975 to 1990. She was the List of prime ministers of the United Kingdom by length of tenure, longest-serving British prime minister of the 20th century and the first woman to hold the position. As prime minister, she implemented policies that came to be known as Thatcherism. A Soviet journalist dubbed her the "Iron Lady", a nickname that became associated with her uncompromising politics and leadership style. Thatcher studied chemistry at Somerville College, Oxford, and worked briefly as a research chemist before becoming a Barristers in England and Wales, barrister. She was List of MPs elected in the 1959 United Kingdom general election, elected Member of Parliament for Finchley (UK Parliament constituency), Finc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brian Sewell
Brian Alfred Christopher Bushell Sewell (; 15 July 1931 – 19 September 2015) was an English art critic. He wrote for the ''Evening Standard'' and had an acerbic view of conceptual art and the Turner Prize. ''The Guardian'' described him as "Britain's most famous and controversial art critic", while the ''Standard'' called him the "nation’s best art critic". Early life Sewell was born on 15 July 1931, in Hammersmith, London, taking his mother's surname, Perkins. The man who in later life he claimed was his father, composer Philip Heseltine, better known as Peter Warlock, died of coal gas poisoning seven months before Sewell was born. Brian was brought up in Kensington, west London, and elsewhere by his mother, Mary Jessica Perkins, who married Robert Sewell in 1936. He was educated at the private Haberdashers' Aske's Boys' School in Hertfordshire. Offered a place to read history at Oxford, Sewell instead chose to enter the Courtauld Institute of Art, University of London ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
