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  • Chantal Akerman

    What is it to perceive time? For some, to be temporally aware is to observe the changes in states or objects; to observe, say, the putrefaction of a peach, or the oxidization of a piece of iron

  • Aino Aalto Glass

    Iittala Glassware, Skandium, 72 Wigmore St, London, W1 9. Tel: +44 (0)20 7935 2077. Skandium in Selfridges, Oxford St, London, W1. Tel: +44 (0)20 7629 1234.

  • Robin Hood, Robin Hood

    One of the important architectural icons of the 1970s is, by popular consent, now due to be demolished in London’s Tower Hamlets. Conceived as providing housing for lower income groups, it was launched by the architectural husband and wife partnership…

  • Cy Twombly: Cycles and Seasons

    Tate Modern, London 19 June-14 September 2008 Vibrations from Apollo’s laurel branch stir tremors through the temple. Depart from here, O you sinners, Phoîbos taps the door with lovely foot.

  • A Maltese Celebration: Architecture into Art

    Richard England (architect): Architect as Artist Auberge D’Italie, Valetta, Malta, 1-25 July 2008 Patrick Fenech (photographer): The New Eye of Osiris Auberge D’Italie, Valetta, Malta, 1-17 July 2008

  • The Hanging Gardens of Colas: Bernard Lassus

    In 2008 Bernard Lassus finally completed his major project for the company Colas. Now this achievement is celebrated, among other accolades, by a large-scale colour brochure, which completes the picture. This is not the first time that a publication on…

  • ‘Poet of Light’ Vilhelm Hammershoi: The Poetry of Silence

    The exhibition of the work of the Danish artist Vilhelm Hammershøi (1864-1916), entitled ‘The Poetry of Silence’, is part of a sequence of exhibition events held since 1986. These exhibitions have brought a wider audience closer to the mysteries of…

  • Gustav Klimt: Painting, Design and Modern Life in Vienna 1900

    Tate Liverpool is presenting the first, ‘comprehensive exhibition of Gustav Klimt ever staged in the UK’

  • Book review: Photo Art: The New World of Photography

    Edited by Uta Grosenick and Thomas Seelig London: Thames and Hudson Ltd, 2008 This work, which originated with the Cologne publisher DuMont Buchverlag in 2007, is an invaluable aid to historians of contemporary art and photography. Some 120 international artists…

  • Psycho Buildings at the Hayward Gallery

    The Hayward Gallery 28 May-25 August 2008

  • Architecture Not Now

    As we approach the second decade of the turbulent 21st century, the level playing field sought by both practising architects and by teachers and theorists appears to be more than ever transitory

  • Book review: Fold out futures

    Vol. 1, Chicago project Irene Barberis and Karen Forbes. Melbourne: RMIT Press, 2007 Dr Irene Barberis teaches and researches at Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology. She has recently collaborated in Chicago with Professor Karen Forbes of Edinburgh College of Art…

  • Photographing Nepal from the Inside Out

    Nepal in Black and White: Photographs by Kevin Bubriski Rubin Museum of Art, New York 14 March–13 October 2008 On 14 March 2008, the Rubin Museum of Art, a venue dedicated to Himalayan arts and culture, opened two exhibits centred…

  • An Englishman in Tasmania – Nicholas Blowers

    Nicholas Blowers was born in Chelmsford, England in 1972. He studied locally, and then Fine Art at Southampton, graduating in 1994. In Europe he remains largely undiscovered, but he has already made an impact both in Sydney and Tasmania, where…

  • New Tent Architecture – book review

    Philip Drew London: Thames & Hudson, 2008

  • The Whitney Biennial 2008

    6 March – 1 June 2008

  • Gathering into gospel order: the Shaker approach to design

    A consideration of Shaker-made architecture, furniture and commercial wares – items of remarkable beauty, durability, economy and practicality – inevitably leads to one conclusion: the story of Shaker design is inseparable from the Shakers’ identity as a distinct cultural group…

  • Peter Doig

    A mid-career retrospective at Tate Britain is enough to cement the reputation of any artist, or else open them up to a critical lashing. Going on the evidence of his best works, Doig deserves his accolade, despite the impression that…

  • China Design Now

    Victoria and Albert Museum, London 15 March–23 July 2008

  • Papunya painting: out of the desert

    National Museum of Australia, Canberra. 28 November 2007-28 February 2008

  • The portrait sculpture of Celia Scott

    Alan Colquhoun. Celia Scott. London: Black Dog Publishing, 2008.

  • Alexander Rodchenko: Revolution in Photography

    Hayward Gallery, London 7 February-13 April 2008 Questions about the nature of representation have dogged the medium of photography since its conception. For some, a photographic image quite simply represents a moment. It is a record of what has passed.…

  • Searching for the Dragon of St George Street

    Earl Cunningham (1893-1977) or ‘The Dragon of St George Street’, as he was called by residents near his Over-Fork Gallery in St Augustine, Florida, left home at 13 to make his way in the world. He spent much of his…

  • Lucas Cranach

    Royal Academy 8 March-8 June 2008 Catalogue: Bodo Brinkmann (ed).Cranach. London: Royal Academy of Arts, 2008