Archive
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Ettore Sottsass: Work in Progress
Design Museum, Shad Thames, London 29 March-10 June 2007
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New Prado
New Prado Architect Rafael Moneo in Spain is not one to run for the architects’ Graffiti prize, that is, the practice of erecting extraordinary, mind-boggling, gobsmacking monuments to one self across the major cities of the world. The new extension…
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Tate Supermodern
The famous super-architects Herzog and de Meuron have evolved a different aesthetic for their newly-accepted proposals for the gallery extension. Signature architecture is not really in it, since the building design appears to have nothing to link it stylistically to…
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Contemporary Art from China in Liverpool Now: \’The Real Thing\’
This exhibition, which runs to 10 June 2007 is already attracting interest from across Europe. It matches an exhibition now being mounted in China, entitled ‘Aftershock: Contemporary British Art l990-2006’. They have Tracey Emin’s bed and soiled accessories, as well…
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Raiders of the Lost Ark
A major crisis is looming in Britain, in the field of government support for the arts. The present Minister for the Arts, Culture, and Sport, Ms Tessa Jowell, seems powerless and incapable of forestalling what will be a growing shortfall…
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National Exodus
One thing that Charles Saumurez Smith won’t miss, as he transfers to the Secretaryship of the Royal Academy, is the duplicity of ministers over picture purchase funds. He will relish the highly professional culture of the Royal Academy, with its…
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Non-refusals in Rubbish: Return of the Rubbish Aesthetic
The Unilever Series: Doris Salcedo. Tate Modern, Turbine Hall, London 9 October 2007-24 March 2008
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MAD’s Chief Curator Makes An Art of Making Connections
An interview with David Revere McFadden
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James ‘Athenian’ Stuart
Victoria and Albert Museum, London 15 March-24 June 2007
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The Unknown Monet: Pastels and Drawings
Royal Academy of Arts, London 17 March-10 June 2007
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The Real World of Abstractionism: Arshile Gorky and the Supremacy of the Flux
Centre Pompidou – Musée National d’Art Moderne, Paris 4 April-4 July 2007
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Awakenings: Zen Figure Painting in Medieval Japan
Edited by Gregory Levine and Yukio Lippit. Japan Society/Yale University Press, 2007. ISBN 0-300-11964-0 US$ 65.00 Awakenings: Zen Figure Painting in Medieval Japan, edited by Gregory Levine and Yukio Lippit, accompanies a major exhibition of medieval Chinese (Chan) and Japanese…
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Poets in the Landscape: The Romantic Spirit in British Art
Pallant House Gallery, Chichester 31 March-10 June 2007
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Camouflage
Imperial War Museum, London 23 March-18 November 2007
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Sol LeWitt: the Mystic Conceptualist
Sol LeWitt was a major leader of Conceptual art, which was initially called Minimalism. Critic Barbara Reise contributed a seminal article to Studio International, clarifying that LeWitt was a Conceptualist, which he stated himself. The death of the renowned artist…
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Italian Paintings and Drawings: The Royal Collection
The Queen’s Gallery, Buckingham Palace, London 30 March 2007-20 January 2008
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Shifting Identities
Aernout Mik, Camden Arts Centre, London 16 February – 15 April 2007
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Andy Goldsworthy: Four Indoor Galleries and Open Air
Yorkshire Sculpture Park, Wakefield 31 March 2007 – 6 January 2008
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The Deformation Man: David Lynch’s Chimerical Universe of Metamorphosis
Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain, Paris 3 March–27 May 2007
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Contaminated Waste Transferred
The assumption by building workers that Anish Kapoor’s 1984 work, “Hole and Vessel II” was rubbish fit only for the skip sent tremors through the London art world and argument among the workers themselves is even more confused now. What…
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Rothko Rising
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New Life Beginning
The Fine Art Society in London employed the Scottish collector James McIntosh Patrick for 50 years at their New Bond Street premises. His collection is now expected to be sold in June for around £2.5 million. It includes items by…
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Apocalypse in Pink: The Work of Irene Barberis.
The role of faith in society and in art, has been addressed in numerous forms since the new millennium, yet it is by definition problematic. In “Writing the Silence: A Taxonomy of Memory”, Louise Adler writes:
