Olivia Weinberg

Art | Culture | Exhibitions

Sportswear, but not as we know it

A new range of high-tech clothing for extreme athletes draws on neuroscience and psychology Steve and Nick Tidball are identical twins who have made their name in advertising. But their real passion is sport. They have raced across the Namibian desert, through the Amazon jungle and over the Alps. So it comes as no surprise […]

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Make some noise

Soundscapes National Gallery, London, July 8th to Sept 6th In most museums and galleries, sound is pooh-poohed. The ping of a mobile phone brings a scowl; a mere giggle can prompt a prod from the security guard. The only sound that is welcome is the sound of silence. So the National Gallery is about to […]

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The Making of a Rodin

Rodin: The Laboratory of Creation Musee Rodin, Paris, Nov 13th to Sept 27th 2015 Rodin’s figures have a restless energy. Lean, long-limbed, they stretch and slump, curl and clinch. Unlike that of his friend Monet, his rise to fame was a slow burn. It took critics years to give him the recognition he deserved and […]

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Bellotto’s place in history

Rembrandt-Titian-Bellotto Kunsthalle der Hypo-Kulturstiftung, Munich, Aug 22nd to Nov 23rd There must have been some tricky conversations at the Kunsthalle der Hypo-Kulturstiftung in Munich as the curators worked out which three painters were worthy of a mention in the title of their next exhibition, “Rembrandt—Titian—Bellotto: Spirit and Splendour of the Dresden Picture Gallery”. The line-up […]

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Butterflies and Elephants

Alexander Calder Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, June 21st to October 5th Alexander Calder (1898-1976) trained as an engineer, and it shows. As a boy he made eccentric toys and animals, displaying skill and craftsmanship from the off. In 1930, after visiting Mondrian’s studio in Paris, he tried a new kind of sculpture—an intricate, scientific procedure, relying on […]

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Matisse cuts it fine

Henri Matisse: the Cut-Outs Tate Modern, London, April 17th to September 7th Light, immediate, pure—just don’t call them naive. Matisse’s cut-outs, or gouaches découpés as they are more seductively known, may look simple to an untrained eye, with their loose, irregular shapes, but they have a sculptural precision. If the pinks, yellows and greens are garish rather […]

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The RA’s happy hotch-potch

Sensing Spaces Royal Academy, London, to January 25th to April 6th “Go and explore, you’re not going to get lost.” That’s the message from Kate Goodwin, the Drue Heinz curator of architecture at the Royal Academy in London, who has just allowed seven architectural practices from different countries to transform the RA’s pristine galleries into […]

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A painter re-makes himself

Georg Baselitz In Colour! Chiaroscuro Woodcuts of the Renaissance, from the collection of Georg Baselitz and the Albertina Both at the Albertina, Vienna, November 29th to February 16th Georg Baselitz is not for everyone. His early work stinks of brutality and decay; his self-portrait “The Big Night Down the Drain”, 1962, is worse. Showing a […]

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