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Patrick Tjungurrayi and Warlimpirrnga Tjapaltjarri

Scott Livesey Galleries, Armadale, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. 1–25 July 2009. by Dr JANET McKENZIE Since 1999 Scott Livesey Galleries has mounted an annual exhibition of work from Aboriginal communities, accompanied by a fully illustrated catalogue. As a tenth anniversary, the…
Book review: One Thousand Drawings by Tracey Emin

Rizzoli International Publications New York, 2009
Isabel Toledo: Fashion from the Inside Out – book review

On Inauguration Day, First Lady Michelle Obama made a radical break from tradition, forsaking the typical red or blue ensembles favored by her predecessors. Instead, she wore a golden yellow wool lace coat and dress designed by Isabel Toledo. The…
Raphael to Renoir

National Galleries of Scotland, Edinburgh 5 June–6 July 2009
The Discovery of Spain. British Artists and Collectors: Goya to Picasso

National Galleries of Scotland, Edinburgh 18 July–11 October 2009
Book review: The Woodblock Painting of Cressida Campbell

The Woodblock Painting of Cressida Campbell
Radical Nature: Art and Architecture for a Changing Planet 1969-2009

Barbican Art Gallery, London 19 June–18 October 2009
Beyond Bloomsbury: Designs of the Omega Workshops, 1913–19

Courtauld Gallery, Somerset House, London 18 June–20 September 2009
Classified: Contemporary Art at Tate Britain

Classified, a new collection display at Tate Britain, draws on the Tate’s own collection of contemporary work to disrupt and delight in a similar manner to Borges’s encyclopaedia
Luis Barragan: Il Poeta Del Silenzio

“Architecture is frozen music. The more you reduce the more perfect the notes must be.” Bruce Chatwin
The Beijing National Stadium – Beijing Olympic Architecture in Retrospect I

The modern day Olympic Games has been more than just a sporting event where thousands of athletes gather in a host country to compete against each other and challenge Man’s limits in becoming “faster, higher and stronger”. With the impact…
The Beijing National Aquatics Centre

Situated on the western side of the extended axis along the Olympic Green and directly fronting the National Stadium (aka ‘Bird Nest) is the National Aquatics Centre. As the name suggest, it has been the venue for holding swimming, diving…
Gormley’s Plinth: One and Other

One & Other Trafalgar Square, London, 6 July – 14 October 2009. Every hour, 24 hours a day for 100 days.Nick Howard’s photos and comments, Trafalgar Square, 7 July 2009.
Futurism at Tate Modern (Futurismo ma no Futurisme)

Tate Modern, London 12 June–20 September 2009 Catalogue edited by Didier Ottinger (Tate Publishing, London, 2009)
Garden & Cosmos: The Royal Paintings of Jodphur

British Museum, London, 28 May–23 August 2009 National Museum of India, November 2009
Colour Chart: Reinventing Colour, 1950 to Today

Being an artist has often meant being a colourist. The twentieth and twenty-first centuries may have seen a dramatic shift in how we respond to and value colour, early experiments in photography giving a new lease of life to black…
Artists in the Bush: Land Issues in the Art of GW Bot, Wendy Stavrianos and Helen Geier

Many artists live in rural parts for the ‘silence and contemplation’ that the country affords. But with this year’s appalling bushfires in Victoria, which killed over 200 people, the bush is no longer safe. The work of these women artists…
Uch Emchek or 3M-Check: Central Asia’s First Art Residency Programme

Producer: Tolondu Toichubaev Curator: Gamal Bokonbaev Coordinator: Asel Akhmatova, KuramaART Gallery Key participants of 2008 Launch of Uch Emchek: Talgat Asyryankulov, Shailo Jekshenbaev, Ulan Japarov, Georgii Kolotov, Talant Ogobaev, Valerii Ruppel’, Adis Seitaliev, Ermek Jenish
Whitechapel rising: the new opening

The Whitechapel Gallery in East London was founded in 1901, Whitechapel itself was at that time a remarkably cosmopolitan part of London, where large numbers of late 19th century immigrants settled, principally Eastern European Jews and Russian political exiles. These…
Tarkovsky: Russian film-maker – book review

This is a remarkable new compendium on the life and work of the Russian film-maker Andrei Tarkovsky who died early in 1986 of cancer, at the age of 54, in Paris
Beauty Rendered. The Model as Muse: Embodying Fashion

The Model as Muse: Embodying Fashion Metropolitan Museum of Art 6 May–9 August 2009.
Victor Majzner, Painting the Torah, 2008

“Without the Torah there would be no Judaism. The Torah makes temporal reality purposeful and the spiritual experience tangible” Victor Majzner (b.1945) published a limited edition book (750 copies), Painting the Torah (2008), to incorporate Jewish experience in to his…
Klaus Moje: A Love Affair with Glass

Klaus Moje: Painting with Glass Museum of Arts and Design, New York City 29 April–20 September 2009
Baroque World: Baroque 1620-1800: Style in the Age of Magnificence, V&A, London 2009.

Baroque 1620–1800: Style in the Age of Magnificence Victoria and Albert Museum, London 4 April–19 July 2009.