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  • LIBESKIND IN HOLLOWAY

    Daniel Libeskind’s first London building (there is already the War Museum in Salford) has slipped quietly into the North London skyline, less controversially and less dramatically than his recently unveiled proposals for Ground Zero. In New York, he will bring…

  • BRANCUSI \’S BIRD

  • BAGS OF FUN, LOADS OF RUBBISH

    Bags of fun, loads of rubbish

  • Aldeburgh appalled

    Maggi Hambling has suffered a setback on Aldeburgh beach. The Scallop, which since November 2003 has graced, or – as the local Council would say – contaminated Aldeburgh’s shingly foreshore, has not run foul of any EU Health and Safety…

  • Worldly Wisdom: The Enlightenment Gallery

    British Museum, London. Opened 12 December 2003

  • Ashley Havinden: Advertising and the Artist

    Dean Gallery, Edinburgh 15 October 2003 – 18 January 2004

  • Waldemar Meets Gerhard

    Gerhard Richter’s recent New York MOMA retrospective was profoundly moving, yet he remains an artist of whom British Gallery directors have fought shy for many years

  • Von Hagens Caught Out, Wriggling

    The news that German state prosecutors are now reviewing the notorious anatomist “artist’s” work comes amid information that Von Hagens may have included the corpses of executed prisoners. Certainly a moneyspinner, his exhibit attracted a total of 850,000 visitors during…

  • TIDINGS OF JOY: TURNER PRIZE 2003

    TIDINGS OF JOY: TURNER PRIZE 2003 The 2003 Turner Prize was awarded at Tate Britain on Sunday evening, 7 December. The £20,000 ($34,000) award was picked up by Grayson Perry, who describes himself as a ‘transvestite potter from Essex’. This…

  • Steven Holl – After Kiasma

    The American architect Steven Holl’s key European debut was the Kiasma Museum of Modern Art, erected with the help of Juhani Pallasmaa opposite the Parliament Building, Helsinki in 2000. But now he, like Peter Cook, has been persuaded to build…

  • ASHLEY HAVINDEN

    Dean Gallery, Edinburgh 15 October 2003 – 18 January 2004

  • Cooking the Books

    The Royal Gold Medal for Architecture was awarded this year to the historic 1970s’ architectural group survivors, led by Professor Peter Cook of the Bartlett School of Architecture, University College, London. However Peter Cook (together with Colin Fournier) has himself…

  • Eric Ravilious

    Imperial War Museum, London 23 October 2003 – 25 January 2004

  • Helen Frankenthaler: Paintings on Paper (1949-2002)

    Until the 1970s and 1980s, drawings (and indeed all works on paper) were considered to be of less importance than the larger works on canvas or board that evolved from them. Traditionally, works on paper were more personal or diaristic,…

  • The Seventh Shanghai Art Fair

    The commercial flavour is clear from the moment visitors step into the aptly named Shanghai Mart. This year, they had first to skip the temptations of the National Chocolate and Ice Cream Fair on the building’s ground floor before reaching…

  • FRIEZE ART FAIR

    The first Frieze Art Fair, a major new international art fair, took place in London from 17-20 October 2003. Organised by Matthew Slotover and Amanda Sharp, founders of frieze magazine, it was the first ever international contemporary art fair to…

  • FACE UP – Contemporary Art from Australia, Nationalgalerie im Hamburger Bahnhof, Museum for the Present, Berlin

    Nationalgalerie im Hamburger Bahnhof, Museum for the Present, Berlin. 2 October – 4 January 2004

  • Mori Art Museum, Tokyo

    The Mori Art Museum opened in Tokyo this October. It is part of the 11-hectare urban development enterprise, Roppongi Hills, conceived by the property developer Minoru Mori and opened in central Tokyo in April of this year. The unprecedented scale…

  • Giorgio Armani: a retrospective

    Burlington Gardens, The Royal Academy of Arts, London. 18 October 2003 – 15 February 2004

  • Pre-Raphaelite and other Masters: the Andrew Lloyd Webber Collection

    20 September-12 December 2003, Main Galleries, Royal Academy of Arts, London

  • Frank Gehry – Walt Disney Concert Hall

    Computer-Aided Three-Dimensional Interactive Application (CATIA) unlocks the magic that enables Frank Gehry’s unique constructions actually to get built. Before computer-aided design, none of this would have been possible. So Gehry’s architecture is essentially of the 21st century

  • James Rosenquist

    Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York 17 October 2003-25 January 2004

  • Araya Rasdjarmrearnsook

    ‘Tensta Art Gallery, Stockholm, 30 August-26 October 2003.

  • Paula Rego: Jane Eyre and Other Stories

    Marlborough Fine Art, London. 15 October-22 November 2003.