Archive

  • Yoshitomo Nara: From the Depth of my Drawer

    Hara Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo

  • Royal Academy Summer Exhibition 2004

    Royal Academy of Arts, London 8 June-16 August 2004

  • Jacques Henri Lartigue

    Hayward Gallery, London 24 June-5 September 2004

  • Art of the Americas: Latin America and the United States, 1800 to Now!

    Art of the Americas: Latin America and the United States, 1800 to Now!

  • Inventing Race: Casta Painting and Eighteenth Century Mexico

    La invención del mestizaje: La pintura de castas y el siglo XVIII en México Los Angeles County Museum of Art, LA 4 April-8 August 2004

  • Obituary: Lionel Brett (4th Viscount Esher)

    Obituary: Lionel Brett (4th Viscount Esher) Lionel Gordon Baliol Brett, who died on 9 July 2004, aged 90, was an influential architect and town planner in the transitional years following the Second World War, and again in the 1970s. His…

  • Edward Hopper

    Tate Modern, London 27 May-5 September 2004

  • Elsa Schiaparelli

    Elsa Schiaparelli, the flamboyant fashion designer of the Art Deco period, is renowned for her fabulous eccentricity and innovation. She changed fashion and people’s attitudes to it with her scandalous dresses and colourful personality.

  • Swiss Re, a lovable gherkin in space

    ‘If you seek his monument, look around’ – such was the epithet chosen by his son, for Sir Christopher Wren, the architect of St Paul’s Cathedral and so much else in 17th century England.

  • The enigma of Édouard Vuillard

    Vuillard: From post-impressionist to modern master Royal Academy, London 31 January-18 April 2004

  • Jellicoe to Jencks: New landscapes, new allegories.

    Two highly significant but very different landscape and garden theorists are Sir Geoffrey Jellicoe (1900-1996) and Charles Jencks (b. 1939). Geoffrey Jellicoe died in 1995, after 75 years of creativity world-renowned and admired as one of the key architects in…

  • Mark Rowan-Hull: Seeing Music, Hearing Colour

    Mark Rowan-Hull’s abstract paintings form a dialogue with music. Firstly a pianist, Rowan-Hull (born England, 1968) has an intellectual approach to his artistic practise that links aspects of visual art and music

  • The art of home improvement

    Michael Landy’s ‘Semi-detached’ is an arresting sight at Tate Britain. A perfect – full size – reproduction of his parents’ house in Essex. The house is split in two, separated by a columnated space, with two large screen facing one…

  • Other beaches too

    The Barnard Castle, Co Durham, Bowes Museum is hosting (until 30 August 2004) ‘Boudin, Monet and the Sea Painters of Normandy’. The exhibition allows the rare opportunity to compare Boudin, Courbet, and Monet closely with lesser known artists such as…

  • MoMA reborn

    The disappearance of the ‘old’ Museum of Modern Art has left old modernists in old New York gasping. But, to quote Michael Winner (in those irritating car insurance ads) – ‘calm down’. The remodelling is more; it is totally new…

  • Klimt rises

  • Michael Jackson forcibly removed

    Not the person, but the portrait of Jackson by Maggi Hambling (perhaps an opportunistic choice of subject by the artist) was rejected by the Royal Academy’s ‘Summer Exhibition’, following distaste expressed by Anthony Green – who holds no little sway…

  • Earth to earth

    The Chelsea flower show once again grabbed all the headlines in the colour sections at the end of May. Tate Britain attempt to hijack the thematic approach, with their exhibition ‘Art and the Garden’, running to 30 August 2004. What…

  • De Kooning plots posterity

    The enigma of de Kooning’s late works, when he suffered from Alzheimer’s disease, persists; they are notorious if only for the cloud that hangs over them. The centennial exhibition at the Gagosian Gallery in New York, closing on 19 June…

  • Bacon\’s female lover, back on the market

    Isabel Rawsthorne, the subject of famous portraits by Francis Bacon, died in 1992. She had met Bacon in her late forties, having earlier been painted by Picasso while living with André Derain in Paris. Bacon was fascinated by her, and…

  • Roy Lichtenstein

    Hayward Gallery, South Bank Centre, London 26 February-16 May 2004

  • Everchanging mirage – Louis Vuitton Roppongi Hills

    Louis Vuitton first started as a manufacturer of expensive luggage and bags. Over the years, the company has ventured into the greater world of luxury and came up with a range of products that is a direct equation to status.…

  • Lawn Road Flats

    There is a beautiful film called ‘England: Home and Beauty’ that is a testament to the glamour of the 1920s and 1930s. In it, young elegant women wearing long, sleek evening dresses arrive home late at night, alighting from their…

  • Dior Omotesando

    With the latest trend of fashion houses stamping their presence in Japan by engaging architects to design their flagship building along the trendy Omotesando in Tokyo, Dior is no exception as well. Fifty years after the first Christian Dior fashion…