With an unprecedented drive for clarity, and with great precision and discipline, Bridget Riley (b. 1931) has crafted a sensational body of work over more than fifty years. The British artist is known

Towards the end of the 19th century, artists turned their backs on history painting in favour of landscape, previously regarded as an inferior genre. In France, the Barbizon School emerged as artists

A nuclear bomb seems to have been dropped in this installation by artist Bouke de Vries. The eight-metre table, with a mushroom cloud as its centrepiece, is the scene of a fierce battle: thousands of

A world without borders or constraints. People freed from work and able to play and travel at will. Constant Nieuwenhuys (1920 – 2005) expressed his ideas for a new world in one of the largest and

This year’s theme of Light inspired 1745 artists to submit 3000 works for the closely fought qualifying rounds of SummerExpo 2014. The independent jury has chosen 248 of the anonymised artworks to be

Jürgen Partenheimer (b. Munich, 1947) is one of the most striking, philosophical and most literary artists of our day. His work is renowned for its minimalistic but highly poetic visual idiom. Early

In Chinese culture mountains have provided a source of inspiration for thousands of years. The contemporary work of Dutch ceramicist Babs Haenen, who celebrates her 75th birthday this year, is