Archive

  • Brooklyn Tulip

    On 11 May 2005, a celebration to mark the installation of ‘Tulips’, a painted aluminium sculpture by English sculptor, painter and novelist Edwina Sandys, took place at Brooklyn Bridge Park in New York. The sculpture is composed of three, carefully…

  • Matisse, His Art and His Textiles. The Fabric of Dreams

    Royal Academy of Arts, London 5 March – 30 May 2005

  • The International Asian Art Fair

    Seventh Regiment Armory, New York City 1-6 April 2005

  • Venice Triumphant

    Venice Triumphant The 51st Venice Biennale of International Art opened to the public on 12 June 2005. This year, it promises to be a rich and diverse offering and to be less weighed down than it was two years ago…

  • From Kirchner to Kandinsky: German Expressionism in Dutch Museums 1919-1964

    25 March – 18 September 2005 Groninger Museum, Netherlands

  • The Triumph of Painting. Colour Power: Aboriginal art post 1984The Saatchi Gallery, London.

    The Saatchi Gallery, London. January – December 2005.

  • An Architecture of Invitation: Colin St John Wilson – book review

    Sarah Menin and her co-author Dr Stephen Kite have produced a remarkable piece of work. The book traces the career of Colin St John (Sandy) Wilson, including his built and unbuilt designs. The authors have selectively assembled a diffuse mosaic…

  • MACO: Mexico Arte Contemporaneo

    ‘MACO: Mexico Arte Contemporaneo’ is considered to be the most important art fair in Latin America, drawing together the best in contemporary art by notable new artists, as well as established names from around the world. The fair was held…

  • Barbara Kruger

    Gallery of Modern Art, Glasgow 21 April–26 September 2005 Barbara Kruger, American artist and political activist, is exhibiting in Scotland for the first time, contributing to the ‘Rule of Thumb: Contemporary Art and Human Rights’ programme of exhibitions, workshops and…

  • Design and Engineering

    James Dyson’s resignation as Chairman of the Board of Directors at the Design Museum in London is a reminder of a debate that has been going on in Britain since the second half of the 19th century, when Sir George…

  • Mr Jeremy Moon experiments. Jeremy Moon: drawings and collages

    Rocket Gallery, London 1 March – 2 April 2005

  • Unauthorised unoriginals

    There has been new attention to the continuing habit of plagiarism in design, which in the furniture world is escalating. But a new group, called Anti Copying in Design (AciD), is fighting back for the originators of designs. Recently, it…

  • Erich Mendelsohn: Dynamics and Function – Realised Visions of a Cosmopolitan Architect; Motion Path; Bridget Smith: Rebuild

    De La Warr Pavilion, Bexhill-on-Sea 8 April-2 July 2006

  • Andy Warhol Self-Portraits

    Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh 12 February–2 May 2005

  • Photographers\’ Gallery Revived

    With the support of the Deutsche Börse Group, the Photographers’ Gallery in London has been saved. This is an astute move for new backers, the German stock exchange, which has its own, highly-prized collection. As a result of this excellent…

  • Getting the Measure

    A new EU Report holds to task the British fine art market, estimated to be worth some £4.2 million per year. From 2006, the droit de suite directive will put a tax of up to 4% on all resales of…

  • Idyllic Landscapes

    Still on the subject of landscape, it transpires that the process of mapping and monitoring changes in agricultural cropping patterns, sponsored as a result of the reform of the EU common agricultural policy, is using satellite technology to check on…

  • Hotel Dreams

    Edvard Munch has been incarcerated in a smart restaurant overlooking the Oslofjord in Norway, close to where the artist grew up. The themed hotel plays a dangerous game, it seems, its appearance more akin to a kind of wayside art…

  • Goddess of the North

    US landscape designer, Charles Jencks, is currently working on a woman with breast and hips up to 100 feet high, to be established some ten miles north of Newcastle. This new sculpture will be a kind of soulmate to the…

  • Gerhard Richter 858

    The Seattle-based jazz composer and instrumentalist, Bill Frisell, has released a new album entitled Richter 858, inspired by a group of eight abstract paintings by German artist, Gerhard Richter. He has accompanied each of the paintings with its own composition…

  • Crumbs from Crumb

    Robert Crumb, the American master cartoonist, has been successfully exhibited in Britain, where some critics have compared his work to that of Cruickshank or Hogarth. Certainly there is a Rabelaisian impact to the cartoons. Crumb now lives mainly in France,…

  • Africa Remix

    Hayward Gallery, London 10 February-17 April 2005

  • Salvator Rosa Rediscovered

    On 25 March 2005, an intriguing summer exhibition opened at Compton Verney House in Warwickshire, entitled ‘Salvator Rosa: Wild Landscapes’. As Sir Joshua Reynolds (first President of the Royal Academy) claimed, Rosa’s perspectives offered ‘the power of inspiring sentiments of…

  • Joseph Beuys: Actions, Vitrines, Environments

    Tate Modern, London 4 February – 2 May 2005