Archive

  • Daniel Buren and his Invention Trajectory

    Daniel Buren: Intervention II: works in situ Modern Art Oxford 4 November 2006-28 January 2007

  • Stirling Prize for Architecture 2006 (RIBA UK)

    This month, the architect, Richard Rogers, has attained a summit point in his career in winning the UK RIBA Stirling Prize. The building that has won the prize is not even in Britain, but the architect very much is. The…

  • The Changing Face of Oz

    The Wonderful Art of Oz The Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art, Massachusetts 11 July-22 October 2006

  • Frieze Art Fair 2006

    Regent’s Park, London 12-15 October 2006

  • Francis Bacon in the 1950s

    Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts, Norwich 26 September-10 December 2006 The Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts seems like a fitting starting point for this fascinating touring exhibition. During the early part of Francis Bacon’s career, the collectors Robert and Lisa…

  • Building an Identity Through Innovation and Change: The Bienal de São Paulo

    Taking the Venice Biennale as a model, the Bienal de São Paulo has been drawing attention since its premiere in 1951, when it brought to Brazil approximately 2,000 works of art representing more than 20 countries. As any other country…

  • Unmasking the Heroes of American Comic Art

    Masters of American Comics The Newark Museum, New York a 15 September 2006-28 January 2007

  • The Architecture of the Last Empire

    The past decade has seen a growing interest in the British Indian Empire and its inner social and economic mysteries. But the physical legacy, in architectural terms, still awaits re-assessment. Indeed, while many of the buildings which remain are carefully…

  • The Horse: 30,000 Years of the Horse in Art – book review

    The Horse: 30,000 Years of the Horse in Art by Tamsin Pickeral is a gallop through art history from prehistoric times to the present, with the focus narrowed on the horse – a long-standing and yet surprisingly unmentioned muse of…

  • Venice Architecture Biennale

    Who next to put his, or her hat, into the ring? This year, Ricky Burdett became the second British Director of the Biennale in four years, following Deyan Sudjic. That was a hard act to follow, and secured high ratings…

  • Saatchi\’s Return – at the RA

    Charles Saatchi’s new show, ‘USA Today‘, opens at the Royal Academy of Arts, London, on 6 October through 4 November. It shows the work of some 40 artists stateside, as shown in 150 works. It is nine years since the…

  • Oz Triumphant

    Our contributor in New York, Michael Patrick Hearn, has pulled off a masterly exhibition entitled ‘The Wonderful Art of Oz’, which runs until 22 October. There is a full-colour 32-page catalogue of his amazing exhibition, which is at the Eric…

  • Stones of New Delhi Commemorated

    The renewal of interest in the British architect Sir Edwin Lutyens is now fostered and encouraged by the Lutyens Trust. It recently obtained copies of the ‘Delhi Town Planning Committee Reports’ covering the choice of a site for the new…

  • Graffers Grow Across Town

    Graffiti artists play a vital role in humanising the more depressing landscapes of the transportation infrastructure of the M25 bounded metropolis. Surprisingly, they are predominantly white, since to be coloured is to be at risk from police engagement more than…

  • Redrawing Europa

    It wasn’t long before the EU’s new directive allowing Brussels to amend national boundaries, inspired by technocrats in Berlin, was to bear fruit here. There is a new TransManche region, conjoining Kent, East Sussex and a large chunk of Northern…

  • A Barrel of Laughs, A Vale of Tears

    Jules Feiffer: If You Really Loved Me, You’d Find Me: The Strips 1960-2000 Adam Baumgold Gallery, New York 15 June-11 August 2006

  • Pallant House

    In August, this website featured an assessment of the high quality of the collections at Pallant House, Chichester. As promised in that article, here follows a more detailed appraisal of the new architecture of Pallant House itself. This building is…

  • New German Painting – book review

    Christoph Tannert (ed). New German Painting. Munich/Berlin/London/New York: Prestel, 2006 ISBN: 3791336665

  • Melbourne Art Fair 2006: A Celebration of Indigenous Art and Beyond

    In August, more than 26,000 visitors flocked to the biennial Melbourne Art Fair, considered by the Australian Arts Council to be among the top three contemporary art events in the Asia Pacific region. Greeting those in attendance to buy art…

  • Hilla von Rebay: the Artist Behind the Guggenheim

    Adam Gallery, London 6-25 September 2006 Hilla von Rebay is perhaps best known as Solomon R. Guggenheim’s art adviser and the person who commissioned Frank Lloyd Wright to design the Guggenheim Museum in New York. But the Adam Gallery is…

  • Aalto Gathering in Finland

    An important event in architectural terms took place this summer in Finland, where the 10th International Alvar Aalto Symposium took place from 28-30 July at Jyvaskyla, Alvar Aalto’s ‘home town’. Symposia have been held here on important topics, both practical…

  • Interview: Kim Thomas Reflects On Art, Music, Poetry and Life

    Kim Thomas has been painting, writing poetry and singing for most of her life. Perhaps that is why this warm, funny, energetic woman wears her roles as painter, author and musician so lightly. They come as natural to her as…

  • Leonardo da Vinci: Experience, Experiment, Design

    No major painter in the history of art has a surviving corpus of paintings smaller than that of Leonardo da Vinci. Only a handful of paintings remain, some unfinished, some of disputed attribution, and at least one of the most…

  • The Draper Touch

    The High Style of Dorothy Draper Museum of the City of New York 2 May-9 October 2006