tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12052850Mon, 22 Jun 2009 04:29:47 +0000reviews of exhibitions, shows and websites from art freakshttp://www.x-bout.com/review/art/noreply@blogger.com (x_reviewer)Blogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12052850.post-115247160480558628Sun, 09 Jul 2006 18:48:00 +00002006-07-09T12:03:53.443-07:00Tate Modern, 22nd June to 1st October, 2006.Review by Graham Buchan.“I know of nothing more real than the painting of Kandinsky – nor anything more true and nothing more beautiful.” Diego Rivera.One of the most extraordinary journeys in the visual arts was the one undertaken by Wassily Kandinsky. In his 50-year career he changed from a painter of landscapes in an impressionist style to the http://www.x-bout.com/review/art/2006/07/kandinsky-path-to-abstraction.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (x_reviewer)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12052850.post-112967445836499831Tue, 18 Oct 2005 22:27:00 +00002005-10-19T10:37:23.666-07:00 Tate Britain, October 18th 2005 – January 22nd 2006. The Turner Prize will be awarded December 5th 2005. It would be ironic if a piece of music helped to win this year’s Turner Prize, but I wouldn’t bet against it. Darren Almond’s video installation If I Had You has a wonderfully evocative piano piece by Richard James as accompaniment, and it perfectly supports the feelings of http://www.x-bout.com/review/art/2005/10/turner-prize-exhibition.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (x_reviewer)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12052850.post-112922637256485247Thu, 13 Oct 2005 17:59:00 +00002005-10-14T22:55:06.326-07:00 The Unilever Series: Rachel Whiteread. EMBANKMENT. Turbine Hall, Tate Modern. 11 October 2005 – 2 April 2006. Rachel Whiteread is concerned with space. Primarily the spaces we use and inhabit, hence her most famous work House – a true-size moulded reproduction of the interior of a London terraced house erected in a park in Mile End in 1993 (and which was, despite winning the Turner Prize,http://www.x-bout.com/review/art/2005/10/rachel-whiteread.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (x_reviewer)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12052850.post-111937593327093504Tue, 21 Jun 2005 17:45:00 +00002005-06-21T17:11:53.726-07:00 A Picture of Britain: Tate Britain until 4th September 2005. This image: Philip Wilson Steer.A Procession of Yachts (1892-3)Tate Image Below:Dora Carrington. Farm at Watendlath. 1921Presented by Noel Carrington, the artist's brother 1987Copyright: Tate London, 2005 This exhibition, mounted in conjunction with a TV series, struggles to present its material coherently. Britain is divided uphttp://www.x-bout.com/review/art/2005/06/picture-of-britain-review-by-graham.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (x_reviewer)4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12052850.post-111632253060097803Tue, 17 May 2005 09:35:00 +00002005-06-09T14:09:22.966-07:00Image credit:The Broken Column, 1944,.Oil on canvas; 400 x 307 mmMuseo Do lores Olmedo Patino, Mexico City© Banco de Mexico and INBAL, Mexico, 2005Frida Kahlo. Tate Modern. Until 9 th October 2005.Review by Graham BuchanThis is an important exhibition of work by an artist who, partly due to the sympathetic bio-pic of a couple of years ago, has come to increasingly wide attention. Frida Kahlo http://www.x-bout.com/review/art/2005/05/frida-kahlo-at-tate-modern-review-by.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (x_reviewer)3