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  • Awesome Archigram

    Design Museum, London Until 4 July 2004

  • Norman Foster: Works 1

    Edited by David Jenkins. London, New York: Prestel Publishing, 2003.

  • Gormley at White Cube

    For the period through to the end of May, White Cube will be showing works by one of the world’s most recognised sculptors, Antony Gormley. His new work, ‘Clearing’ at White Cube, is composed of 7 km of rod that…

  • Bugatti memories

    Brian Sewell was right to question (The Independent, 6 April 2004) the attempt to resuscitate the revered name of Bugatti in the 21st century. Surely the untimely end of Ettore Bugatti in 1947 aged 66, and of his son Jean,…

  • BritArt, how we have loved you

    The nation’s love affair with BritArt was hyped up as recently as last February, when Sotheby’s sold 14.7 million-worth of the genre. Can it really be true that, ‘Britain’s love affair with BritArt meant that a new generation of young…

  • Archives

    The John Murray publishing house would have had little difficulty in finding a home and a purchaser for its archive, which is thought to be worth some 45 million. However, it is intended that it will go to the National…

  • Tax Windfall

    The Russian magnate Vladimir Logvinenko has the ambition to bring into St Petersburg again and to other Russian Museums, outstanding paintings. For a long time, he could not bring this to fruition. But the removal of Russia’s 30% import tax…

  • Snow Jobs

    Not many art enthusiasts will have been able to visit the exhibition ‘The Snow Show’, on at Kemi and Rovaniemi in Northern Finland, until 31 March 2004. Kemi is on the Northern edge of the Gulf of Bothnia, an hour…

  • Settled in London

    The fact that David Hockney is spending more and more time in Britain, either in Yorkshire or in London, suggests that he is here to stay, as much as one might be prepared to commit to anywhere nowadays. This could…

  • Prospecting Louise

    Louse MacBain is moving into pole position in the international world of art media. The purchase of Art + Auction last year by MacBain has already much improved the visual presentation of the journal, a notable form manual for the…

  • Passing in the Night

    Robert Venturi and Denise Scott Brown, erstwhile architects of the National Gallery, London, (‘More Post Office than Post Modern’, according to one critic) spoke at the Royal Institute of British Architects on 15 March 2004. They rely upon being controversial,…

  • Liverpool

    A rare conjunction of musical and architectural genius has been brought about by the provision of Sir Giles Gilbert Scott’s 12.5-second reverberation time, found now to perfectly accommodate Sir John Tavener’s ‘The Atma Mass’, at Liverpool’s great Anglican cathedral. Tavener…

  • It’s that Libeskind again

    Daniel Libeskind slipped unobtrusively back into London from New York, again, for 8 and 9 March 2004 to attend the opening of London’s stealthiest new acquisition, the Graduate Centre for London Metropolitan University on the Holloway Road in North London.…

  • Isokon Reborn

    The once semi-derelict Isokon building, in Belsize Park in North London, has now reopened, and following a 2.3 million renovation, the flats are being snapped up. But in a unique adherence to social ethos, some 25 of the 36 flats…

  • How we kept meeting

    Sir Peter Blake and Sir Colin St John Wilson, as interviewed by Peter Stanford in The Independent on Sunday (14 March 2004) seem more like mentor and student than buddies. But buddies they are, and they represent a revealing slice…

  • The Pleasure of ‘Pain’. Pain: Passion, compassion, sensibility

    A Wellcome Trust exhibition Science Museum, London until 20 June 2004 Sadism and salvation, torture and tenderness, martyrdom and mercy: these are the subjects of Pain: Passion, Compassion, Sensibility – the first major exhibition to explore the enigma of pain…

  • The Art of Philip Guston: 1913-1980

    Philip Guston is one of America’s most important 20th century artists. His work occupies a unique place which the retrospective exhibition now showing at the Royal Academy in London reveals. If one views a painting such as ‘Untitled’ (Sandwich, 1980),…

  • Karel Nel: Status of Dust

    Art First Contemporary Art, 9 Cork Street, London, W1 9 November 2003-22 January 2004

  • Bill Viola: The Passions

    The National Gallery, London 22 October 2003—4 January 2004

  • A Crystalline, Kaleidoscopic Universe – Prada Aoyama, Tokyo by Herzog & de Meuron

    In 1999 Prada launched the “Epicentre Store” programme to examine different ways of reinventing the Prada retail experience by commissioning avant-garde architects like Rem Koolhaas and SANNA to design their new shops. The latest addition to the programme was Prada…

  • Spider in the Field – Snow-Land Agrarian Culture Center, Matsudai by MVRDV

    MVRDV is an office for urbanism and architecture based in Rotterdam, the Netherlands, founded by Winy Maas, Jacob van Rijs and Nathalie de Vries in 1991 after they won the first prize in the Berlin Europan Competition. They are well…

  • Interview with David Elliott, Director of Mori Art Museum, Tokyo

    Since it opened in October 2003, the Mori Art Museum in Tokyo has attracted 750,000 visitors for its inaugural exhibition ‘Happiness: a survival guide for art and life’. This figure is surprising considering that the Mori Museum does not have…

  • Vital Configurations: The paintings of Susan Rothenberg

    Waddington Galleries, London 29 October – 22 November 2003

  • REM KOOLHAAS NEARER HOME

    A major retrospective of architect Rem’s work opens on 27 March 2004 at the Kunsthal, Rotterdam. After a ‘wow’ at the Nationalgalerie in Berlin, Koolhaas’ buildings revel in the overwhelming complexity of certain sites. The ‘Berlin Block’ came in for…