Artist Rooms

The Artist Rooms: Jeff Koons exhibition displays the artist's conceptualism, but is at odds with the age of austerity

13 Apr 2011

Stockbroker-turned-mass-media-manipulator Koons has always been a contentious figure in the apolitically voyeuristic world of pop art. A Brooks Brothers outfitted amalgam of Warhol and Duchamps, Koons is only ever as interesting as the times he lives…

National Galleries of Scotland to unveil collection of Jeff Koons' works in Artist Rooms

The American neo-pop artist's crazy career milestones

3 Jan 2011

As the National Galleries unveils the collection of Jeff Koons’ works in Artist Rooms, we consider some of the American neo-pop artist’s crazy career milestones 1: The Equilibrium Series The spiritual offspring of his idol Andy Warhol Koons first…

Artist Rooms: Joseph Beuys

15 Apr 2010

This exhibition of work by postwar German artist Joseph Beuys features a selection from the ‘Braunkreuz’ series: drawings, the legendary fat chair, and his objects in vitrines. Beuys’ signatory mediums of felt, fat and copper, chosen for their…

Artist Rooms: Jenny Holzer – Blue Purple Tilt

15 Apr 2010

Neon fly posting arrests the eye as you venture into Talbot Rice, the gritty and harrowing statements creating a sense of nervous expectation. The main room displays several of Holzer’s large-scale paintings depicting declassified US military documents.

Agnes Martin (part of Artist Rooms)

The Canadian-American artist's later works offer calm reflection

3 Sep 2009

A late addition to the Artist Rooms series is a room of eight paintings by the Canadian-American artist Agnes Martin. The exhibition features late works, dating from 1994–2002, when Martin was in her late 80s and no longer able to manipulate the…

Artist Rooms

A special bequest of works by key figures from the last 50 years

13 Jul 2009

In an unexpected act of philanthropy, it was announced last year that art dealer Anthony d’Offay would make a donation of a large number of the epochal works of art in his collection to the National Galleries of Scotland and to the Tate. While these…

Artist Rooms

2 Apr 2009

GROUP SHOW One of two flagship group shows to stem from Anthony d’Offay’s gift to the National Galleries of Scotland and Tate last year (the other is at Tate Modern), Artist Rooms is bright and inspiring and bulges with defining work from some of the…

Artist Rooms: d’Offay Collection

5 Mar 2009

Outside of major retrospectives, the opportunity to see bodies of work by international artists doesn’t come along too often. This is what struck collector and dealer Anthony d’Offay when he first mooted the Artist Rooms project, which bears its first…