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  • Antony Gormley Drawing – book review

    The new publication, Antony Gormley Drawing, reveals the working processes behind the sculptures of one of Britain’s most significant artists

  • Unseen Vogue: The Secret History of Fashion Photography

    Unseen Vogue: The Secret History of Fashion Photography

  • Rapture: Art’s seduction by fashion since 1970

    Until visiting this exhibition I had, naively and unconsciously, assumed that contemporary art and fashion were much the same thing. Damien Hirst, Stella McCartney, Tracey Emin, Kate Moss, Alexander McQueen — all seemed perfectly interchangeable in the pages of Hello…

  • StArt Artists in Malta

    An old tenement building close to the harbour in Valletta seems an unlikely location in which to launch an organisation for the promotion of avant garde art in Malta, especially as the building is believed to have been used as…

  • Barnett Newman at Tate Modern

    The Barnett Newman exhibition has opened and is a perfect fit with the Gallery spaces on Level 4. If Newman is pretentious, as one reviewer queried, then Tate Modern is all the more so: magnanimously the same reviewer offered readers…

  • Andrew Forge 1923-2002

    Andrew Forge, who died on 4 September 2002 in New Milford, Connecticut, aged 78, was a prominent and influential figure, a teacher and critic, and a distinguished painter, whose loss is regretted on both sides of the Atlantic. His contribution…

  • Millennium Bridge Gateshead

    Architects seldom get the opportunity to design bridges. Chris Wilkinson and Jim Eyre of Wilkinson Eyre have made a name for clear structural expression, with poetry too, in their recent works. Now, the £22 million Gateshead Millennium Bridge linking Gateshead…

  • Fabric of Vision: Dress and Drapery in Painting

    Over the summer the National Gallery, London showed Fabric of Vision: Dress and Drapery in Painting, an exhibition that looked at the way artists from the Renaissance to the early 20th century artists depicted dress and drapery

  • Accountancy as terrorism: ‘Christie Malry’s Own Double Entry’

    All over Hollywood, producers and screenwriters are pitching ‘high concept’ film projects that capitalise on current news headlines: urban terrorism, bombing Iraq, and the financial crises caused by accountancy malpractice. In 12 months’ time, our local multiplexes will be swamped…

  • Kassel Documenta

    Kassel Documenta is commonly compared to the Olympic games, but, being an inhabitant of former Eastern Empire, I remember great all-Union exhibitions held in the USSR, where regional unions of artists struggled fiercely for the right to ‘represent’. The rhetorical…

  • Ceri Richards – book review

    Mel Gooding’s new book on Ceri Richards, the first major publication on his work, establishes that Richards was one of the best and most significant artists of the 20th century in Britain. Gooding has also curated the exhibition at the…

  • Song of the Earth: European Artists and the Landscape – book review

    Mel Gooding and William Furlong. London: Thames and Hudson, 2002. ISBN 0 500 510164.

  • David Blackburn: The Sublime Landscape

    David Blackburn’s exhibition at the Hart Gallery in London coincides with the publication of The Sublime Landscape, by Charlotte Mullins. In a long interview with the artist by Ron Phillips, Blackburn acknowledges his debts to other artists, writers and scholars…

  • Yorkshire Sculpture Park

    Few now realise that the pioneering Yorkshire Sculpture Park has now existed for a quarter of a century, in its 550 acres near Wakefield.

  • Et tu, Vettriano

    The painter Jack Vettriano moved some four years ago from Scotland to London, and now lives and works in Chelsea. Vettriano’s maternal grandfather came to Scotland from Italy and drew with a skill which the young Vettriano sought emulate. Self-taught…

  • Switzerland invites the world

    Switzerland’s Expo’02 centres on the environment of the region of the Three Lakes, in the north-west tip of Switzerland that coincides with the boundaries of France and Germany. At Murten-Morat, Jean Nouvel was commissioned to design all the actual pavilions.…

  • Spirits drained: Puvis De Chavannes returns

    The National Gallery, London does not best mourn Ian MacGregor’s departure with this valedictory recovery of the work of Pierre-Cecile Puvis de Chavannes, (d.1898). Although the most famous muralist in France when he died aged 78, and often credited together…

  • Manhattan in memoriam

    The continuing question over what should rise or spread on the World Trade Centre site becomes increasingly pertinent as 11 September approaches. Of course in mediaeval Europe, assuming the perpetrators had been caught a series of gibbets would have risen,…

  • Landscape threatens

    Quietly and with little critical attention, the Natural History Museum in London (through 15 September) shows 19 works by six artists. Entitled ‘Turbulent Landscapes’, this sequence of interactive exhibits shows the impact and essence of tornadoes, sandstorms, and other environmental…

  • Howard’s way

    The prolific Sir Howard Hodgkin has been distressing critics who equate his stage designs with art. Theatre designs cannot be considered in the same vein. But the designs for Mark Morris’s Kolam (April 2002) for ENO Covent Garden are supremely…

  • Hampton’s August thoughts

    It is over 50 years since Jackson Pollock and Lee Krasner moved from Greenwich Village out to Springs. David Salle spends full-time now with a new house built at Sagonapack and Julian Schnabel in 1982 had restored his house at…

  • Royal gold medal for architecture for Archigram

    Britain’s leading architectural accolade, awarded each year by the Queen, goes this year to the Archigram Group. A most famous image from Archigram Walking City was the work of the late Ron Herron. A superb retrospective exhibition of the group’s…

  • Thomas Girtin in passing

    Few would deny that Thomas Girtin’s ‘The White House at Chelsea’ is a key British landscape painting. Girtin, (b.l775) who died in 1802, was greatly admired by 19th century successors. Turner was his exact contemporary. ‘Had Tom Girtin lived, I…

  • Take Gabo

    Tate St Ives has been running a successful show of the work of the major constructivist sculptor Naum Gabo since mid-July and continues until 13 October. The fact that Gabo had no truck with dealers or commercial galleries during his…