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The British Council Collection; Passports

Whitechapel Gallery, London 5 April–14 June 2009
Sickert in Venice. Dulwich Picture Gallery, London. 2009

Dulwich Picture Gallery, London 4 March 2009–7 June 2009
Gerhard Richter Portraits

This is a substantial selection of work, a broadly chronological arrangement from throughout his career, sublimated by Stanton Williams’ sensitive exhibition design into a total experience
Designs On at the University of Dundee

The exhibition Designs On at the University of Dundee was conceived as part of the conference V&A at Dundee, which explored the feasibility of building a V&A museum in the Scottish city of Dundee. Designs On showcases some of the…
Constable Portraits: The Painter and his Circle

This spring the National Portrait Gallery (NPG), armed with a little trowel, unearths lesser-known works from the oeuvre of one of Britain’s greatest landscape painters, John Constable
Book review: Andrei Tarkovsky: elements of cinema

The film Director Andrei Tarkovsky died at the age of 54 in December l986. This was a tragedy at such a young age and a severe loss to the development of film culture. Considerably younger than the generation of great…
Rodchenko and Popova: defining constructivism

Tate Modern, London. 12 February–17 May 2009.
Materiality and Memory. An interview with Cildo Meireles

Born in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil in 1948, Cildo Meireles spent most of his adolescence in Brasilia, the modernist Brazilian capital designed by architects Oscar Niemeyer and Lucio Costa. He was there when, in 1960, the ‘new’ Brasilia, a focus…
Cildo Meireles: From Sense to Concept

For Brazilian artist Cildo Meireles’s first major exhibition in Europe, Tate Modern created a warehouse-size open space by removing the interior walls of one of its largest display areas in order to showcase some of the largest installations by an…
Will Alsop: Sharp Center

Sharp Center, Ontario College of Art & Design, Toronto, Canada Will Alsop Opened 25 September 2003
Damaged Romanticism: A Mirror of Modern Emotion

Damaged Romanticism: A Mirror of Modern Emotion. Grey Art Gallery, New York University, 13 January–4 April 2009. Parrish Art Museum, Southampton, Long Island 7 February–11 April 2009.
Interview: Independent curator and author Kohle Yohannan on ‘the legend of Valentina’

An interview with independent curator and author Kohle Yohannan on ‘the legend of Valentina’
Rewinding personalities: Van Dyck at Tate Britain

The short journey from the British Museum down to Tate Britain is currently a rewarding trip. The British Museum gives us, with the exhibition dedicated to Shah Abbas, the early 17th century unifier of Iran, a clear comparison as to…
Book review: Modernist Malta: The Architectural Legacy

Ed Alberto, Mieli-Farrugia, Petra Bianchi Published by Kamra tal-Periti, Malta 2009
Book review: Young Chinese Artists: The Next Generation

Editors: Christoph Noe, Xenia Piech, Cordelia Steiner Prestel Verlag/Munich 2008
V&A at Dundee: Making it Happen

University of Dundee 24-25 February 2009
Carlo Cardazzo – a new vision for art

1 November 2008 – 1 March 2009 Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice
Photography: Olivier Richon | Anima(l)

16 January–22 February 2009 Ibid Projects, London
Book review: Projects in China: Architects Von Gerkan Marg and Partners

Edited by Meinhard von Gerkan Published by Prestel. Munich/Berlin/London/New York. March 2008
Review: Andrea Palladio: His Life and Legacy

It is significant that this exhibition at the Royal Academy in London originated in Vicenza (Palazzo Barbaran, through 6 January 2009) and has now come to London. The Palazzo was an important work of Palladio, lying close to the historic…
Book review: The Truth about Babylon: Babylon Myth and Reality

British Museum, 13 Nov 2008–15 March 2009 Book/Catalogue published by The British Museum Press. By IL Finkel and MJ Seymour. London 2008
Book review: New Orleans 1867. Photographs by Theodore Lilienthal

Gary A. Van Zante Merrell Publishers Ltd, London and New York 2008
Book review: John Wolseley: Landmarks II

Professor Sasha Grishin Craftsman House, (a division of Thames & Hudson) Melbourne, Australia 2008
Book review: California Video: Artists and Histories

The Getty Research Institute and the J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, 2008. Edited by Glenn Phillips