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  • Craigie Aitchison

    Jillian and Arthur M. Sackler Wing Royal Academy of Arts, London 9 October–9 November 2003.

  • Frank Gehry – Maggie’s Centre, Dundee

    On the western, landscaped edge of Dundee city, overlooking the Tay Estuary, Frank Gehry’s very latest work stands complete. It exists mindful of particular place-related precedent, of shrines or temples from pre-history or early classical periods. But this gem of…

  • Winifred Nicholson in Scotland

    The Dean Gallery, Edinburgh, 10 July-7 September 2003 Duff House, Banff, 8 November 2003-18 January 2004 An Tuireann, Skye, 24 January-20 March 2004

  • Book review: Figuring it out

    Colin Renfrew. London: Thames & Hudson 2003. ISBN 0500 051143. 224pp, £32.00 In The Shape of Time (1962), George Kubler showed that our knowledge of the distant past relied mainly upon the visible products of man’s industry. In contrast, the…

  • Book review: The Raft of the Medusa: G

    Albert Alhadeff. Munich, Berlin, London, New York: Prestel Publishing 2002. Géricault’s masterpiece will always have more secrets to reveal about itself than any of its Napoleonic companion pieces, even those on a similarly grand scale by David and Delacroix, which…

  • Jon Schueler\’s sky

    From Mallaig, the late Jon Schueler used to captivate Edinburgh. A wartime sky observed from the turret of a B-17 Flying Fortress, enhanced his knowledge of the many moods of the Isle of Skye, observed distantly, painted movingly. He exhibited…

  • Julian Schnabel in Edinburgh

    Schnabel seems like a ghost from the past, from the booming, prancing 1980s. Strange then that he should have crashed through at the Edinburgh Festival. But it’s a quieter Schnabel, seemingly without the broken dishes, on show this year. The…

  • Cedric Price

    He was a charismatic architect, larger than life. He visibly stood for the social principles of architects who inherited standards of social engagement from the 1930s generation. He was always characteristically ‘smart’ with a preference for black or grey; smart…

  • Patrick Procktor: Gone Away

    Patrick is no longer with us. He is irreplaceably gone. A great and noble figure, yet deliberately, unavoidably human. Whether in his beautiful lithographs of the Ganges, or his grand paintings of an unfamiliar, wintry Venice, his works were supremely…

  • Manhattan take two

    Daniel Libeskind’s experiences of Ground Zero since his victory in the competition to redevelop the site earlier this year have shown one thing at least: that none of his competitors could have taken it all the way he has done.…

  • Killer Icon

    St Petersburg’s Hermitage Museum has confirmed through an official, Boris Sapunov, that the middle section of one of their icons depicting Christ, seemingly painted by an apprentice, has ‘a negative bio-field’. Not just a case of inferior work, apparently, but…

  • Thirst for Hirst

    Damien Hirst’s new exhibition ‘Romance in the Age of Uncertainty’ – open until 19 October 2003 at White Cube (London N1) – is undoubtedly drawing the crowds. There is a lot of God around. With religion here goes death, religiously…

  • Blake at Stake

    Bumping into Sir Peter Blake, RA, emerging from Waddingtons in Cork St (his dealer), one was conscious of a sense of deja-vu. With all this religious fervour about, one could have been on the way to visit the Blake ‘Madonna…

  • Bridget Riley at Tate Britain

    Tate Britain, 26 June-28 September 2003

  • Monet: The Seine and the sea, 1878-1883

    The Royal Scottish Academy Building, The Mound, Edinburgh 6 August-26 October 2003

  • Picasso’s designs for Diaghilev’s Les Ballets Russes

    The Edinburgh Festival is not always as strong in the visual arts as it is in the range of excellent performances in ballet, music and theatre. However, it was an inspiring and appropriate venue for an exhibition of one of…

  • Daniel Libeskind: Felix Nussbaum Museum in Osnabrück

    Felix Nussbaum Museum, Osnabrück, Germany Architect: Daniel Libeskind

  • Does Viennese cafe society still exist?

    Does Viennese cafe society still exist?

  • Max Beckmann book reviews

    Edited by Sean Rainbird, London: Tate Publishing, 2003.

  • Marc Chagall: Ceramic Masterpieces

    Edited by Roland Doschka, Munich, Berlin, London, New York: Prestel Publishing, September 2003. Marc Chagall (1887-1985) was a storyteller with a magical dimension. His popularity was in large part due to the use of Biblical and Hebrew imagery, which imbued…

  • Book review: Where’s My Space Age? The Rise and Fall of Futuristic Design

    Sean Topham. Munich, Berlin, London, New York: Prestel Publishing, 2003.

  • Ando’s progress

    A recipient of numerous awards, including the prestigious Pritzker Prize in 1995 and the American Institute of Architects Gold Medal 2002, Tadao Ando’s works have been lauded by the architectural world. Yet he himself is entirely self-taught, with no architectural…

  • Essential Art Deco

    Ghislaine Wood. London: V&A Publications, 2003.

  • Adventures in Art: Frida Kahlo

    Frida Kahlo: The Artist in the Blue House(published 2003) is the most recent title in Prestel’s list of excellent art books for children. Creatively conceived, well written and well designed, these are the most attractive books of their type on…