An exhibition currently running at the Tate Liverpool, Portraying a Nation: Germany charts how two artists responded to the glamour and misery of Weimar Germany. The Germany that emerged from the chaos and destruction of World War I was, in many ways, a broken one. The punitive reparations dictated by the Treaty of Versailles and crippling hyperinflation between 1921 and 1924 had a ruinous effect on the German economy. The streets were filled with impoverished, often badly...
An upcoming exhibition at Tate Liverpool charts how two artists responded to the glamour and misery of Weimar Germany. The Germany that emerged from the chaos and destruction of World War I was, in many ways, a broken one. The punitive reparations dictated by the Treaty of Versailles and crippling hyperinflation between 1921 and 1924 had a ruinous effect on the German economy. The streets were filled with impoverished, often badly wounded, veterans, many of...
Fahrelnissa Zeid’s epic, vividly colourful abstract canvases represent a dynamic fusion of European sensibilities with Islamic, Persian and Byzantine touches—a compelling cocktail that Tate Modern will explore this summer in a major new retrospective of the artist. Zeid was born in 1901 on the island of Büyükada off the coast of Istanbul to a prominent Ottoman family of intellectuals and artists. Introduced to painting at an early age, in 1919 she became one of the...
Running until 13 March 2017, this long-awaited show at the Peggy Guggenheim Collection places the luminous art of Tancredi Parmeggiani in the spotlight. Tancredi Parmeggiani was the only artist, aside from Jackson Pollock, that the influential art collector Peggy Guggenheim ever placed under contract. His ferocious creativity and lyrical expressionism fuelled a rapid rise in the art world that was nourished and encouraged by Guggenheim. The variety and prolific nature of his work, ranging from...
The Brough Superior SS100 is back on the road. Venerable British brand Brough Superior, first established in 1919, produced powerful, stylish motorcycles that were widely acclaimed, owned by everyone from T. E. Lawrence (he purchased seven of them in a row) to George Bernard Shaw and Jay Leno. The most well-known model in Brough Superior’s stable was the muscular SS100, which formed a core part of the brand. The numbers of Brough Superior bikes referred to...
The romantic allure of owning a vineyard exerts a strong pull for many wine lovers, but does it make a sound wine investment? Here’s our guide to investing in wine. For wine enthusiasts the cachet of owning your own vineyard or winery can be hard to resist, and it’s an option that has become increasingly popular in recent years. However, it’s important that romance does not overcome reality. 1. Location is everything A vineyard in a...
A new exhibition at the Royal Academy examines the radical, deeply political russian art that flourished in the first years of the Russian Revolution. Emerging across Europe from the early 1850s onwards, avant-garde art prized originality and radical experimentation. Unorthodox by design, it sought to challenge received notions of art, culture and society, whether it was cubism’s innovations of form or futurism’s revolutionary social vision. In Russia it was a diverse and multi-layered movement with...
