The fascinating Dalí Theatre-Museum is in Figueres, a small town near Spain’s Catalan coast, and about an hour’s drive from Barcelona. It is what you would imagine Salvador Dalí would look like in building-form, and just seeing the exterior is … Continued

Joan Miró is one of the great modern masters. In Spain, he is a part of their modernist triumvirate, which consists of himself, Picasso, and Dalí. He is a key figure of the Surrealist movement. He influenced dozens of artists … Continued

Nigel Cooke is a painter who has already established a mature and distinctive point of view for an artist who is only in his mid-forties. In a new exhibition of paintings and works on paper at Pace Gallery’s Hong Kong’s … Continued

It isn’t often that a creative master is revealed to be talented in another form of art, but we do have examples. Jacques Henri Lartigue was a skilled painter, but he was made famous because of his photography. Serge Gainsbourg … Continued

Does every mystery need to be resolved? At Carl Kostyál’s London outpost, the artist Henry Gunderson answers that question with a resounding “no.” In a tightly edited and technically accomplished set of paintings, Formula One is an exhibition that takes … Continued

Consider the work of the Surrealists or the painted cutouts of Matisse. Just think about it for a moment. It’s nice, right? It could be described as elegant, modern in the twentieth-century sense, playful or psychological in nature. However, I … Continued