Romantic fallacies

That being an artist is a romantic undertaking still holds true for many; but not Luc Tuymans, whose thinly-smeared, off-register and elusively referential images oscillate between what is depicted and a sh...

Cutting edge art

  The Japanese artist Yutaka Sone is presently in London showcasing his latest exhibition, Sculpture, at the highly respected David Zwirner gallery, which displays the wide variety of his sculpting w...

Sensuous territories of the mind

Rachel Clark’s intimate and yet coolly-objective paintings have the power to draw you in and take you on an emotional journey. In figurative art, external reference points are easier to read. But in abstrac...

Artistry and Integrity

. An oil-on-canvas painting of a pair of macaws leans against the wall of a dim classroom in Chengdu province’s Hua Xin Vocational College. The student artist who painted them is Jing Chao, a young man in hi...