Michael Snow Sets New Sights At the AGO Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto July 18 to December 9, 2012. by Sarah Milroy At 82, Toronto artist Michael Snow has savoured his share of honours, from his 1995 election to the France’s Chevalier de l’ordre… Read More
Artists In Exile: Vincent van Gogh in Saint-Rémy Sam Kemp @SamWKemp In our Artists In Exile series, we have tended to focus on individuals who have, for whatever reason, been forced to leave their homeland. Here we have something quite different: an artist… Read More
‘I was so close to the sky. It was spiritual’: Sonny Rollins on jazz landmark The Bridge at 60 It’s one of the most romantic stories in music: the jazz star rejecting fame to practice on a New York bridge for two years. Now 91,… Read More
Luigi Russolo’s Cacophonous Futures By Peter Tracy What does the future sound like? In the early 20th century, one answer rang out from Luigi Russolo’s intonarumori — lever-operated machines designed to pop, sough, shriek, and shock. Peter Tracy explores the ambitions behind Italian Futurism’s experiments with noise… Read More
BBC Radiophonic Workshop Director: Roger Pomphrey. The BBC’s Radiophonic Workshop was set up in 1958, born out of a desire to create ‘new kinds of sounds’. The Alchemists of Sound looks at this creative group from… Read More
Jeffrey Ladd: a tour of my bookshelves. From his studio in Köln, Jeffrey Ladd takes us on a detailed tour of his wide-ranging, indiosyncratic, and constantly surprising book collection, discussing inventive use of images in punk posters, eccentric advertising materials, photobooks, and beyond. Read More
Barcelona’s 1970s counterculture. Underground recalls brief but intense flowering of movement in city following death of Franco. Read More
Helen Frankenthaler. Gagosian Grosvenor Hill, London She invented staggering new ways to paint, but it was the men who followed her who got all the credit. Now this towering figure is finally getting her due. Jonathan Jones… Read More
‘Damn! This is a Caravaggio!’: the inside story of an old master found in Spain. by Lorenzo Tondo in Palermo and Sam Jones in Madrid Art dealer Giancarlo Ciaroni attempted to buy painting listed at €1,500 for €500,000 – but discovered bewildered owners already had two… Read More
