Archive

  • Performance and Play

    Absent without Leave, Victoria Miro Gallery, London 17 February–17 March 2007

  • Contemporary Artists Embrace a ‘Radical’ Tradition

    Museum of Arts & Design, New York 25 January–17 June 2007

  • A Secret Service: Art, Compulsion, Concealment

    Kurt Schwitters’ experimental practice ranged across sound poetry, drama, collage, typography, publishing and sculpture. When he died in exile in the Lake District in 1948, he was working on the last incarnation of his most mysterious yet compelling works, his…

  • Libeskind impacting Denver

    What the Denver citizenry got then, in their quest for an international profile, was not the hoped-for clone of the Pirelli building designed just previously by Ponti (1956) for Milan, but something altogether different, a contextual work.

  • Documenting the Obvious: Picasso and American Art

    Whitney Museum of American Art, New York 28 September 2006–28 January 2007

  • New Shanty

    Two key individuals originating from the Netherlands have jointly initiated the formation of an open-air art gallery in the Vila Cruzeiro shantytown edging Rio de Janeiro. Jeroen Koolhass, the Dutch illustrator who works for the New Yorker magazine and the…

  • Constant Gardiner

    The much-admired British architect and critic/historian Stephen Gardiner has died in England, aged 82. Gardiner became chiefly known as a domestic architect, with a special appeal to private clients. For example, in order to achieve improvement and commodity for the…

  • DNA Hiccup

    In the past two decades, remarkable scientific progress has been made by exploring and, to a degree, cracking the universal genetic codes of the human race. Ironically now, two African countries have been confident enough to track those emigrants whom…

  • Home and Garden: Paintings and Drawings of English Middle Class Urban Domestic Space 1914 to the present

    Geffrye Museum, London 20 February-24 June 2007

  • Alvar Aalto: Through the Eyes of Shigeru Ban

    Barbican Art Gallery, Barbican Centre, London 22 February-13 May 2007 A retrospective exhibition of the architecture of Alvar Aalto in central London is extremely timely. It is now almost ten years since the major exhibition was organised in New York…

  • Anselm Kiefer: Aperiatur Terra

    White Cube, Mason’s Yard, London 26 January-17 March 2007

  • The Possibilities of Paint: An Interview with John Zinsser by Cindi Di Marzo

    For John Zinsser, painting and paint are more than a process and medium; they are his subjects. During his career, Zinsser has remained committed to the possibilities of painting and abstraction, while the contemporary art market moves from one trend…

  • Sixties Iconoclastic Art and its Representation

    Riflemaker Becomes Indica: Part 2 Riflemaker Gallery, London 8 January-2 February 2007

  • In the darkest hour, there may be light: Works from Damien Hirst’s murderme collection

    Serpentine Gallery, London 25 November 2006-28 January 2007

  • Gilbert and George: Major Exhibition

    Gilbert and George has arrived at Tate Modern (and not at Tate Britain, at their own insistence). They claim that they are, for the period of this exhibition only, a part of the art ‘establishment’: after which the duet will…

  • Martin Ramirez Masters the Secret of Time

    Until recently, few people knew much about his life in Mexico and early years in the states. Now that a biography has been pieced together, the American Folk Art Museum in New York has staged a retrospective for the artist.…

  • Wrestling with the Angel in the Modern Age

  • Superdad Obit

    Toni del Renzio has died aged 91. Truer than life always, he was born to a landed Italian family outside St Petersburg, where his father was a diplomat to the Tsarist court. He had a legendary and varied life, not…

  • Pass the Parcel

    Is free admission to Britain’s galleries and museums about to go down the tube? There is a marked tightening of the government’s attitude here, in marked contrast to the early euphoria of the Chris Smith days. It’s all beginning to…

  • No Hanging Problems at Rock

    Daniel Libeskind is quoted as being truly inspired by his erstwhile first glimpse of the Rocky Mountains as he first jetted into Denver, Colorado, to design the Denver Art Museum. The completed building does epitomise those rocks on Denver’s flattened…

  • Travelling Canaletto

    Antonio Canaletto has come to London, with an exhibition at the Dulwich Picture Gallery. Previously the painter of Venetian views for the Grand Tourists in Venice, his market dried up with the War of the Austrian Succession. But, apart from…

  • Fra Angelicos turn up as a surprise

    The twin paintings were discovered by the relations of a deceased retired librarian, still hanging discreetly where she left them – behind her spare room door in a modest house in Oxford. They had originally formed the altarpiece of the…

  • Citizens and Kings: Portraits in the Age of Revolution 1760-1830

    The Royal Academy of Arts is currently hosting Citizens and Kings: Portraiture in the Age of Revolution. However, despite the British Museum’s own superb and scholarly comprehensive exhibition entitled Enlightenment: Discovering the World in the Eighteenth Century (2003), there seems…

  • China Power Station: Part 1

    Battersea Power Station, London 8 October-5 November 2006