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Reviewed in This Article “Art and China after 1989: Theater of the World” is at the Guggenheim Museum through January 7, 2018. The accompanying book, Art and China after 1989: Theater of the World, edited by Alexandra Munroe with Philip Tinari and Hou Hanru, is published by the Guggenheim. On the evening of May 20, 1989, in response to weeks of mass demonstrations in Tiananmen Square, the Chinese government placed Beijing under martial law. The following morning, in Hong Kong, far to the south, Wen Wei Po, the main Communist-controlled newspaper in the British territory, published a gla...

CHRISTINE LINDEY sees a retrospective of Eileen Agar's work which reflects her lifelong quest for a non-conformist art

Poet in residence appointed for Rydal Mount Kieron Winn The first person to be appointed poet in residence at Rydal Mount will take up his place next month. Kieron Winn will spend a week at the home of William Wordsworth, writing and meeting visitors to the house. Kieron’s first collection of poems, The Mortal Man, was published in 2015. He has twice won the University of Oxford’s most valuable literary award, the English Poem on a Sacred Subject Prize. Kieron studied English at Christ Church, Oxford, where he was awarded a doctorate for a thesis on Herbert Read and TS Eliot.

The Making of Rodin at Tate Modern review: a master of modernity Melanie McDonagh It’s disconcerting to find Rodin in Tate Modern. We are used to seeing him in Tate Britain down the river – The Kiss has been brought here for this new exhibition – or in the V&A. He does come within Tate Modern’s remit in period (he died in 1917) but he’s one of the earliest artists to be shown there. His representational figurative sculpture will be a different experience for visitors after the abstract and modernist art. Yet if Rodin looks different here, that’s good – it makes ...

Alan Bowness was an art historian whose eye and influence shaped the British contemporary art world over more than 40 years. He never sought the limelight, but his quiet self-assurance and belief in his own convictions inspired confidence in others and made him the most persuasive and effective voice in a talented post-war generation of curators, writers and critics. In the late 1950s and through the 60s and 70s, he was a pioneering academic and a friend to a generation of abstract artists in England, whose work he championed in print and in the many committees on which he served. In the ...