AMERICAS AND THE CARIBBEAN This year, due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Tate Britain awarded a Turner Prize bursary award to 10 artists, including Barbados-born artist Alberta Whittle, in place of the normal Turner Prize. She is a previous recipient of the Margaret Tait Award and this year also won the Frieze Artist Award for a […]
Category Archives: art
Review no 105: Photographer Joana Choumali (Côte d’Ivoire)
Ivorian photographer Joana Choumali laces her images with embroidery to prize-winning effect
Review no 104: Viennese artists Gustav Klimt (1862-1918) and Egon Schiele (1890-1918)
The contrasting work of artists Klimt and Schiele
Review no 102: Artist Wangechi Mutu (Kenya)
AFRICA Kenyan-born artist Wangechi Mutu was suggested to my daughter by her school art teacher as worthy of research on the topic of “marginalised female artists”, in response to the BLM protests. This provided me with some much-needed inspiration, and a new artist to find out more about. I hope to visit galleries again in […]
Review no 99: Ai WeiWei (China) at the Royal Academy of Arts, London
A look at the work of contemporary Chinese conceptual artist Ai WeiWei
Review no 96: Chilean artist Alfredo Jaar
Political atrocities and poetry combine in the work of installation and video artist Alfredo Jaar
Review no 93: Margarita Cabrera – Mexican artist
political artist Margarita Cabrera
Review no 90: Harald Sohlberg: Norwegian artist
Harald Sohlberg: a Norwegian painter of magical landscapes
Review no 88: Artist Frank Bowling (Guyana)
Abstract artist Frank Bowling
No 86: Christo (1935-2020): The Bulgarian-born artist who, in collaboration with Jeanne-Claude, wrapped the Reichstag
Bulgarian-born artist Christo who, in collaboration with Jeanne-Claude, wrapped the Berlin Recihstag
