The statue standing proudly on the northwest corner of Trafalgar Square is a fifteen and a half foot blue cockerel. ‘Hahn/Cock’, the creation of German sculptor Katharina Fritsch, won last year’s Fourth Plinth Commission – a competition started in 1998 in...
If you see nothing else all year, go and see this. A frantic woman rushes through Bramante’s ‘Temptietto’, calling the name of her missing daughter. A nun is treated to a discount at an exclusive botox party. There is a giraffe in...
On a recent trip to Oslo, I visited the 150 year anniversary exhibition of the work of Norway’s most famous artist, Edvard Munch. The exhibition, spread across two of the city’s galleries – the National Gallery and the Munch Museum – is the biggest...
“This is a very, very special morning and you’re seeing a very, very happy director in front of you”. These were the words of the Van Gogh museum’s Axel Rueger when he confirmed the authenticity of Sunset at Montmajour, the first full-size Van Gogh...
Cape Town is a city bursting with expressive design. It seems the city has had to house and display this range of creativity almost overnight, resulting in streets of art galleries appearing in the city bowl. Because of this, attaining an internship at a...
