Archive
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The Thinking Hand: Essential and Embodied Wisdom in Architecture
Last autumn I had the privilege of joining the 75th anniversary celebrations of the opening of the famous city library of what was once Viipuri in Finland (karelia) ceded to the Soviet Union post war, now Vyborg in the Russian…
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Misericord: Cathie Pilkington and Jay Cloth
Space Station Sixty-Five, London 25 February–1 May 2011
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British Art Show 7: In the Days of the Comet
Hayward Gallery, London 16 February–17 April 2011
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Billy Childish: The Disruptive Betterment of Culture
“i am a desperate man who loves the simplicity of painting and hates gallarys [sic] and white walls and the dealers in art” (Billy Childish, i am the strange hero of hunger). L-13, Clerkenwell, London.
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Show – Jerwood Encounters
JVA at Jerwood Space, London 16 March–21 April 2011
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Shiro Kuramata and Ettore Sottsass
21_21 Design Sight, Tokyo 2 February–8 May 2011
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Picasso: Guitars 1912
Museum of Modern Art, New York 13 February–6 June 2011
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In Giacometti’s Studio
Alberto Giacometti’s name and work have soared in the 21st century, quite apart from the dramatic prices raised in the salerooms recently. The form and content of his sculptures, figurative and otherwise, and paintings and preparatory drawings, with their existential…
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George Shaw: The Sly and Unseen Day
Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead 18 February–15 May 2011
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art + soul
Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney Until 13 Jun 2011
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Ai Weiwei: Sunflower Seeds
Turbine Hall, Tate Modern, London 11 October 2010–2 May 2011
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High Abstract
Poussin Gallery, London 11 February–12 March 2011
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Bill Viola: The Quintet of the Unseen
In Bill Viola’s piece The Quintet of the Unseen, exhibiting at Blain Southern, one can see a similar attention to detail as that which is apparent in the plays of Samuel Beckett. But where Beckett favours an austere set, Viola…
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Louise Bourgeois, Tracey Emin: Do Not Abandon Me
Hauser & Wirth, Old Bond Street, London 18 February–12 March 2011
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Gabriel Orozco
Tate Modern, London 19 January–25 April 2011
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Grayson Perry: Visual Dialogues
Manchester Art Gallery 1 February 2011–12 February 2012
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The Life of the Mind: Love, Sorrow and Obsession
Curated by Bob and Roberta Smith
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Brave old world: Absalon
Absalon KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin 28 November 2010–20 February 2011
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ANALOG: Trends in Sound and Picture
Riflemaker Gallery, London 11 January–5 March 2011
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John Makepeace: Enriching the Language of Furniture
Collins Gallery, Glasgow 15 January–5 March 2011 Somerset House, London 16 March–15 April 2011 The Crafts Study Centre, Surrey 26 April–16 July 2011 Lotherton Hall, Leeds 25 September–20 November 2011
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Starred restaurant. Royal Academy of Arts, London
It seems to be a peculiar feature of the Royal Academy that some of its most alluring works of art are to be found in unexpected places, outside the main galleries. Take, for example, its prize treasure, The Virgin and…
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An essay on sculpture. Studio International, 1969, Volume 177, No 907: 12-13
“It is this durability which gives the things of the world their relative independence form men who produced and used them, their ‘objectivity’ which makes them withstand, ‘stand against’, and endure, at least for a time, the voracious needs and…
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10 Dialogues: Richard Demarco, Scotland And The European Avant Garde
Magdalena Abakanowicz (b 1930) Gunther Uecker (b 1930) Alastair Maclennan (b 1943) David Mach (b 1956) Ainslie Yule (b 1941) Marina Abramovic (b 1946) Rory McEwen (1932–1982) Joseph Beuys (1921–1986) Tadeusz Kantor (1915–1990) Paul Neagu (1938–2004)
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V&A Dundee: Blueprint on a tidal surge
The Victoria and Albert Museum’s new policy for generating and catalysing satellite ventures outside London has taken off with a dramatic proposal to create a new building at Dundee, Scotland. The initiative was driven by Professor Georgina Follett, Vice-Principal of…
