Archive

  • Axel Antas: Nature of Things/Marijke van Warmerdam: First Drop

    Rokeby Gallery, London 5 September-3 October 2006

  • West Meets East in a DADAdventure

    DADA…born East–Romania Romanian Cultural Institute, New York 9 September-31 October 2006

  • Mimmo Paladino: Black and White

    I don’t want to impose any point of view, any perspective, because I’m also quite fascinated by how others view my work. An outsider’s glance shows me what I don’t already know, what I haven’t as yet seen. It’s a…

  • Pallant House Gallery, Chichester

    Pallant House Gallery, which opened on 1 July 2006 in the centre of Chichester, is a dramatic conjunction of old and new – dramatic, that is, internally. From the exterior, as approached from the town, a seamless joining has been…

  • Pallant House Gallery, Chichester

    Royal Museum of Scotland, Edinburgh 14 July-5 November 2006 ‘Beyond the Palace Walls: Islamic Art from the State Hermitage Museum’ is a very timely collaboration for the Edinburgh Festival 2006 between the Royal Museum in Edinburgh and the State Hermitage…

  • Pierre Huyghe: Celebration Park

    This exhibition is the artist’s first solo show in the UK, and takes place under the aegis of Paris Calling, a season of contemporary French art showing in galleries across London, Oxford and Margate. The exhibition has travelled from Paris,…

  • The Paintings of Adam Elsheimer (1578-1610): Devil in the Detail

    National Galleries of Scotland, Edinburgh 23 June-3 September 2006 The miniature paintings of German artist, Adam Elsheimer, are legendary; and yet his work has generally been insufficiently recognised. This was a brilliant religious, figurative and landscape painter whose influence upon…

  • Stirling Works

    The Stirling Prize shortlist for the top British Architecture Award is, as usual, characterised by razzmatazz, gloss, and glitter. It seems to be Richard Rogers’ year now with his impressive Barajas Airport, Madrid, entered simultaneously with his new building for…

  • Sibling Studios

    The architect Richard Rogers has developed a project for three ‘pavilion style’ houses in Wimbledon. The three are all for members of one family, who grew up on site, and are now demolishing their old house, a kind of family…

  • Sandra Blow

    Blow was in her time a pioneering British abstract painter of the 1950s. Her work expressed a deliberate informality. Her first sale was to Sir Roland Penrose. In 1960 she had won the first Guggenheim Award. Before this, she enjoyed…

  • Poundbury goes to Shanghai

    Thames Town is one of seven satellite communities to become established this year within Shanghai’s expanding orbit, which in total will provide for half a million people in new housing. This is a Chinese version of what an ‘olde English…

  • Kirchner Surfaces

  • Annely Juda

    Annely Juda built up on her own judgment and with an exceptional eye, a remarkable art constituency in central London, in Tottenham Mews. In due course she moved to superb, top lit galleries in Dering St. Her special field was…

  • Amen Emin

    Tracy Emin’s career trajectory continues to rise effortlessly, and all to her credit. Now comes the hot news that she has been selected to represent Britain in the June 2007 Venice Biennale. The last Biennale was notably successful, and the…

  • Peter Townsend

    Peter Townsend, who died 21 July 2006 in London, has proved to be a daunting prospect for obituarists, which would amuse him.

  • AngloMania: Tradition and Transgression in British Fashion

    The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York 3 May-4 September 2006

  • Sculptural Architecture in Austria

    National Art Museum of China, Beijing 5-23 August 2006 Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangzhou 14 October-16 November 2006

  • Out of Beirut

    Modern Art Oxford 13 May-16 July 2006

  • French Book Art/Livres d’Artistes: Artists and Poets in Dialogue

    5 May-19 August 2006 The New York Public Library ‘Never give into routine; at each step, through books or in a wider context, everything must begin anew, from zero.’1 So Jean Fautrier, Jean Dubuffet and Henri Michaux forewarned after World…

  • Will Alsop for Tsar

    Will Alsop has applied for a new post, that of a kind of design ‘Tsar’ to encourage London to consider more Landmark buildings. The Greater London Authority’s architecture and urbanism unit is planned to merge with the London Development Agency’s…

  • On Photography: A Tribute to Susan Sontag

    Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York 6 June-4 September 2006 Susan Sontag’s passionate engagement with photography is the subject of a small but intriguing bit of curatorial ingenuity; a show that offers a handful of Sontag’s potent statements on the…

  • Howard Hodgkin

    Tate Britain, London 14 June-10 September 2006

  • Jeremy Gardiner: Ancient Landscapes/The Poetry of Crisis

    Foss Fine Art/Aldeburgh Gallery, Aldeburgh 22-28 June 2006

  • Constable: The Great Landscapes

    Tate Britain, London 1 June-28 August 2006 This fascinating exhibition brings together several of Constable’s best-known pictures in the form of full-scale sketches – the so-called ‘six-footers’. These are supported and informed by works on other scales, sketches and documentary…