Ruscha, prints and Tate

The celebrated American pop artist Ed Ruscha is donating a collection of prints to Tate in what its director, Nicholas Serota, called “a wonderful Christmas present to the whole nation”. Ruscha will donate 18 recent print editions and has also promised to give one impression of all future prints he […]

Chic art versus Poor art

‘Chic’ is an adjective used to describe somebody elegant, somebody or something having or representing good taste. In its various meanings we could consider it as a synonym for elegant, nice, friendly, pleasant or generous. In contemporary art, one can say that the “summum of chic style” is represented by […]

Gerhard Richter: The bold standard

Waxing lyrical GERHARD RICHTER is the world’s foremost living painter. The German artist, who turns 80 in February, is represented in the collections of the most distinguished modern-art museums and has had a large number of solo retrospectives. The latest, “Panorama”, has just opened at Tate Modern in London and […]