Archive
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Chris Ofili at Tate Britain
Chris Ofili’s mid-career retrospective at Tate Britain is a crowd pleaser, and this is no bad thing. What comes across most strongly in the exhibition is Ofili’s tactile approach to painting and his joy of colour, leading to the exciting…
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Obituary: Raymond Mason
He had early been a friend, and something of a protégé, of Henry Moore, who tried to persuade him to return to England, saying that “we have here a fine little team of up-and-coming sculptors”, by whom he meant Butler,…
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Petra: Rock City of the east
Richard England recently visited Petra. Here he eulogizes on the unique harmonious relationship between its rock carved architecture and its dramatic natural setting.
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Pierre Soulages
Centre Pompidou, Paris 14 October 2009–8 March 2010
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Brit Insurance Design of the Year 2010. Rock Stars, Politics and Ingenious Design
Brit Insurance Design of the Year 2010 The Design Museum, London 17 February–31 October 2010
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Sargent, Sickert & Spencer
Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge 8 December 2009–5 April 2010
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Book review: Architecture in Times of Need. Make it Right. Rebuilding New Orleans
Make it Right. Rebuilding New Orleans’ Lower Ninth Ward
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Art Bin: Landyfill
South London Gallery, 65 Peckham Road, London 29 January–14 March 2010
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Book review: Passion City: STraum a. Landscape Architecture
Editor: Kristin Feireiss PRESTEL. Munich, London, New York, 2010 ISBN 978-3-7913-4305-1
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Book review: Ben Johnson. Foster in View
Editor: David Jenkins PRESTEL. Munich, London, New York, 2010 ISBN 978-3-7913-4175-0
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A Human Museum Without Walls. Bigger, Better, More: The Art of Viola Frey
Bigger, Better, More: The Art of Viola Frey
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Beth Fisher: Grisaille Legacy
Beth Fisher: Grisaille Legacy at The Royal Scottish Academy this January is an exhibition of monumental drawings which draw their subject matter from intensely personal experiences of family life over three decades. The eloquent and searing images are presented with…
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Book review: Maker of Dreams, the Mother of them All. Madeleine Vionnet, edited by Pamela Golbin
Madeleine Vionnet, edited by Pamela Golbin, with photographs by Patrick Gries Published by Rizzoli, 2009
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Andrzej Jackowski: The Remembered Present
Purdy Hicks Gallery, London 22 January–20 February 2010
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Crazy God. Photographs by Yvonne De Rosa
Diemar/Noble Photography, London 21 January–6 March 2010
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Less and More – The Design Ethos of Dieter Rams
The Design Museum, London 18 November 2009–7 March 2010
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Inscription: drawing, making, thinking
Jerwood Space, London 13 January–21 February 2010
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ARC: I Draw for You
Drawn Together is a London-based group of artists (Maryclare Foá, Jane Grisewood, Birgitta Hosea, Carali McCall) who collaborate on performance drawing projects. Their work involves live action mark making with graphite and light, sound and animation. Through repeated processes they…
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Conceptual drawing: recent work by Bernhard Sachs, Mike Parr, Greg Creek and Janenne Eaton
In a global context drawing exists irrespective of cultural identity. It is a basic human instinct to make marks, to draw, to write
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Gary Hill: Poetics Beyond the Third Dimension
Gary Hill: O lugar sem o tempo/Taking time from place Oi Futuro gallery, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil 20 July–6 September 2009
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Hitting a Wall, Finding a Shape: An interview with Gary Hill
Using a curious Internet nickname that plays with a literary reference used in his work, pioneering American video artist Gary Hill gave this interview to Studio International after the opening of his recent exhibition, Gary Hill: O lugar sem o…
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A New Look for a New World. Art Deco Complete: The Definitive Guide to the Decorative Arts of the 1920s and 1930s
Art Deco Complete: The Definitive Guide to the Decorative Arts of the 1920s and 1930s by Alastair Duncan Published in the UK by Thames and Hudson (£50); in the US by Abrams ($125)
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GSK Contemporary, Earth: Art of a changing world
The central theme relates to global warming, an issue, which has increasingly preoccupied statesmen, politicians, scientists and creative artists around this imperilled world
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Eva Hesse: Studiowork. Camden Arts Centre, London 2009
On the front cover of Ruth Barcan Marcus’ philosophical essays entitled Modalities is an image of an art-piece consisting of eight rectangular-shaped pieces created by a combination of materials: open-weave cloth, fibreglass, and latex, suspended from the ceiling. From the…
