FT Arts

Frieze broadens its church

Wed, 10 Oct 2012 06:37:00 GMT

Frieze, London's leading contemporary art fair, has this year set up an additional event to run alongside its original. Frieze Masters mixes the old with the new by opening its doors to work as far back as antiquity. The FT's Seb Morton-Clark looks at what the development means for dealers and the the art market.

Inside Deutsche Bank’s art collection

Tue, 02 Oct 2012 15:28:05 GMT

Deutsche Bank boasts the world's largest corporate art collection. Alistair Hicks, the bank’s art adviser and curator, shows the FT some of the best works and explains why banks need art.

Snap: Art at the Aldeburgh Festival

Fri, 08 Jun 2012 16:32:01 GMT

Rachel Spence visits Snape Maltings in Suffolk, England, to preview an exhibition that’s both local and international. Former YBA Abigail Lane explains the thinking behind the show, while filmmaker Emily Richardson discusses her connection to the landscape.

Frieze lands on New York's shores

Fri, 04 May 2012 20:05:14 GMT

After the 10th edition of its London art fair, Frieze is hosting its first American fair on Randall's Island in New York City this weekend. Jan Dalley, the Financial Times' Arts Editor, takes us through the long serpentine tent that is hosting some 180 galleries from 30 different countries exhibiting and selling the best of contemporary art today

Damien Hirst at Tate Modern

Wed, 04 Apr 2012 17:56:54 GMT

As crowds flock to Damien Hirst's retrospective at Tate Modern, his signature spot and spin paintings, his diamond-studded skull and his animals in formaldehyde are the focus of intense interest. But is Hirst an important artist of our time? Or is he merely an accomplished showman?

Glyndebourne Festival preview

Thu, 22 Mar 2012 06:08:00 GMT

Jan Dalley, FT arts editor, travels to Glyndebourne, a world-class opera house in Sussex, southern England. Ahead of the public booking opening on March 24, she talks to the people behind the annual Festival about what this year holds in store.

Turner Inspired at the National Gallery

Tue, 13 Mar 2012 17:57:18 GMT

Claude died almost a century before Turner was born, but he was Turner’s lifelong obsession. ‘Turner Inspired: In the Light of Claude’ explores Claude’s influence on the English painter. Jackie Wullschlager visits the exhibition.

Johann Zoffany: Society Observed

Thu, 08 Mar 2012 12:22:25 GMT

Jackie Wullschlager visits an intriguing exhibition of work by Johann Zoffany at the Royal Academy, London. Born in Germany in 1733, Zoffany moved to London in 1760 where he depicted Georgian society and British imperial rule with a witty detachment.

Lucian Freud: Portraits

Thu, 09 Feb 2012 02:43:00 GMT

Director of the National Portrait Gallery, Sandy Nairne, introduces the first ever exhibition devoted to Lucian Freud’s portraiture. Produced in close collaboration with the late artist, it spans over 70 years and features some 130 stunning works.

Hajj: Journey to the Heart of Islam

Fri, 27 Jan 2012 17:49:50 GMT

The Hajj, the pilgrimage to Mecca, is a religious duty for every able-bodied Muslim – and the subject of a new show at the British Museum in London, the first full exhibition of its kind. Jan Dalley looks at the artworks and objects on display.

Artists respond to new media

Fri, 13 Jan 2012 01:28:00 GMT

Over 50 years artists of all sorts have harnessed digital technologies. Now a new award is launched in the UK: the Samsung Art+ prize, whose ten-strong shortlist displays something of the huge range of new media art. Here, Jan Dalley, FT arts editor, explains how DJs and composers, painters and video artists have responded to changing times.

Robin Hood reimagined by the RSC

Tue, 29 Nov 2011 18:50:56 GMT

The Royal Shakespeare Company’s 'The Heart of Robin Hood' is a radical take on the legend. Sarah Hemming visits the company’s home in Stratford-upon-Avon and talks to the people behind this physical and exciting family show.

Leonardo in London: an 'extraordinary privilege'

Thu, 10 Nov 2011 03:22:00 GMT

The National Gallery’s stunning exhibition "Leonardo da Vinci: Painter at the Court of Milan" is a major diplomatic coup: with eight paintings, it reunites more than half of his surviving oeuvre as a painter. Jackie Wullschlager reports on the artist’s special appeal.

Artist Fiona Rae stays faithful to paint

Tue, 11 Oct 2011 05:46:00 GMT

Alongside Damien Hirst and Tracey Emin, Fiona Rae is one of the generation known as the YBAs, or Young British Artists. Yet while her peers explored installation and video, she stayed faithful to painting. Rachel Spence asks her about her new works showing at the Timothy Taylor Gallery at Frieze.

Frieze Projects 2011

Mon, 10 Oct 2011 06:09:00 GMT

Frieze Projects are a group of provocative artworks commissioned for the fair. Rachel Spence meets the curator Sarah McCrory and two young artists whose Frieze Project is a bar-cum-installation in the style of a Romanian castle

Ximena Garrido-Lecca prepares for Frieze

Wed, 07 Sep 2011 01:47:00 GMT

Rachel Spence visits the London studio of Ximena Garrido-Lecca, who will exhibit for the first time at the Frieze Art Fair in October. Born in Lima in 1980, her work is inspired both by European art traditions and indigenous Peruvian culture. She is represented by the Revolver Gallery in Lima and the Max Wigram Gallery in London.

Thomas Struth: an objective photographer?

Fri, 08 Jul 2011 01:10:00 GMT

German photographer Thomas Struth receives his first solo show in Britain this summer at London’s Whitechapel Gallery. Ranging from 1978 to 2010, the exhibition takes in dense jungles, gawping tourists, re-built German cities and sprawling Asian ones. FT photography critic Francis Hodgson visits the show, and asks Struth and curator Achim Borchardt Hume about the personal choices behind these seemingly objective pictures.

From Britten to Bones: the Aldeburgh Festival

Thu, 20 Oct 2011 16:01:33 GMT

The Aldeburgh Festival was founded in 1948 by the composer Benjamin Britten and the tenor Peter Pears. In 1967, it moved from Aldeburgh to a Victorian maltings at nearby Snape. This year, the Festival includes Snap, an exhibition by artists including former YBAs Sarah Lucas, Don Brown and Gary Hume, who have a special connection to the area. Jan Dalley has a preview.

Xu Bing at the British Museum

Fri, 13 May 2011 04:46:00 GMT

Xu Bing is one of China’s foremost contemporary artists. His latest creation is a light and shadow box installation commissioned by the British Museum. Inspired by a traditional Chinese scroll painting, it uses leaves and branches as well as found objects to startling and playful effect, and was completed in the space of 12 days. Xu and the piece’s curator Jan Stuart talk to Jan Dalley, the FT's arts editor.

Joan Miró: The Ladder of Escape

Fri, 15 Apr 2011 11:56:00 GMT

Tate Modern's Joan Miró retrospective focuses “primarily on his politically engaged art”, but its subtitle, The Ladder of Escape, points to Miró's co-existing impulse to disengage from the world around him and evoke a fantastical realm. Jan Dalley visits this fascinating show.