Archive

  • Ken Done: Paintings

    Australian artist Ken Done’s third exhibition of paintings is currently showing at the Rebecca Hossack Gallery in London, importing his characteristic brand of sunshine and optimism to a grey English winter

  • The Architecture of the British Library at St Pancras

    Roger Stonehouse, Gerhard Stromberg, Spon Press, Taylor and Francis Group: London and New York, 2004 The British Library famously has had a stormy and protracted development, and it is a tribute to the commitment, determination, and diplomacy of its architect,…

  • Modern MoMA

    The Museum of Modern Art in New York reopened its doors to the public on 20 November 2004. On a wet and cold day the lines wound all around the block as thousands clamoured to get a chance to see…

  • Turner Prize

    The 2004 Turner Prize was awarded this December with very much less hype than previously. Does this mean that the Press are now aware of a diminishing level of public interest? This seems to be the case. And at 25,000…

  • March of the Philistines

    The predicament of the world famous Cambridge University School of Architecture does seem to be ominous. True, a stay of execution by the University Board has given campaigners cause for celebration – but it may be short-lived. The School has…

  • Flight from the Barricades Or \’where have all the intellectuals gone?\’

    Faces in the Crowd: New stories of Modern Art

  • Flight from the Barricades Or \’where have all the intellectuals gone?\’

    Flight from the Barricades Or ‘where have all the intellectuals gone?’

  • Turner Prize Show

    At the Turner Prize, controversy is the name of the game. In fact, this year’s Frieze Art Fair in London supplied all that, but was commercially successful, as well as being a remarkable feat of organisation. All the punters were…

  • MoMA New York Reopens

    The Japanese architect, Yoshio Taniguchi’s $425 million reconstruction of New York’s Museum of Modern Art, comprises the largest museum opening of the 21st century and encompasses 630,000 square feet on six floors. Taniguchi has previously designed a number of museums,…

  • Miró at Christie’s

    The sale of Miró’s ‘Caress of the Stars’ on Wednesday 3 November 2004 in New York, for close to $10 million, suggests that the art market is still robust when it comes to works of the highest quality. This was…

  • Genoa – Inspired by Celant

    A timely exhibition which runs at the Palazzo Ducale, Genoa, until 14 February 2005, is entitled ‘Arts and Architecture’. This exhibition is another boost for the prevalent theory that architecture and art must be indissolubly linked if excellence is to…

  • A Sense of Place: Three Artists

    Hector McDonnell: New York Solomon Gallery, Dublin 27 August-15 September 2004

  • Gerald Laing

    Bourne Art Gallery, Edinburgh Until 29 October 2004

  • Charles Conder: Retrospective

    Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide

  • The First Architectural Biennale Beijing 2004

    It would not be an exaggeration to claim that the 21st century belongs to Asia – if not to China alone. Deng’s reopening of doors and the economic reform of the 1980s and 1990s paved the way for a resurgence…

  • Museum Tails

    Edinburgh has pulled it off again. The National Gallery on the Mound is not only hosting the outstanding Titian exhibition, but it has also supplied an appropriate Venetian ambience – the unmistakable smell of sewage, combined with various aromas from…

  • Museum Building Boom

    For London, the recently announced plans for a new Wellcome museum-cum-gallery, inside the new Wellcome headquarters, will add a public museum, art gallery and library to the capital’s resources. The Wellcome Institute too will reveal its own collection of medical…

  • Bruce Nauman: Raw Materials

    Tate Modern, London 12 October-28 March 2005

  • Christopher Dresser 1834-1904: A Design Revolution

    Victoria and Albert Museum, London 9 September-5 December 2004

  • The Blue Man: The Portrait of James Milliken by Jean-Etienne Liotard, c.1762.

    Jean-Etienne Liotard (1702-89) was one of the finest portraitists of the eighteenth century. The recently discovered portrait of the son of Scottish landowner, James Milliken of Milliken was probably painted in the early 1760s when James was on the Grand…

  • The National Museum of the American Indian

    Almost 500 years after the “discovery” of America, at last the original inhabitants are being recognized with a new edifice on the Mall of the United States capital. On September 21, 2004 the National Museum of the American Indian opened…

  • Bill Brandt: A Centenary Retrospective

    Victoria and Albert Museum, London 24 March-25 July 2004

  • Russian Landscape in the Age of Tolstoy

    The National Gallery, London 23 June-12 September 2004

  • Past Things and Present: Jasper Johns since 1983

    Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh 13 July-19 September 2004