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  • Baltic Centre

    Gateshead is suddenly on the map. First, with the new bridge by Wilkinson Eyre. Now with the opening of the new Baltic art gallery that represents the fuller culmination of a 15-year programme of regeneration along the quayside. This will…

  • Obituary: Kenneth Armitage

    Kenneth Armitage died this January, aged 85. Early in his career he was tidily grouped, misleadingly, with Lynn Chadwick and the painter John Bratby, as indicative of a new direction for post-war British art. However, his invitation to join the…

  • William Eggleston

    Eggleston was an entirely different pioneer — not only of colour photographer, and a rapid, almost casual style (often without using the viewfinder); but also in portraying the seamy underbelly of America and the sordid detritus of human life.

  • Ansel Adams at 100

    Ansel Adams’ images are as fundamental to the narrative of the American West as the films of John Ford or the legends of Butch Cassidy, Billy the Kid and Doc Holliday

  • Braun AG Headquarters, Melsungen, Germany

    The first scheme described here was initially designed by the architects James Stirling, Michael Wilford & Partners With Walter Nageli (1992) Additions by Michael Wilford and Partners were completed this year. The works complex designed by James Stirling and Michael…

  • Braun AG Headquarters, Melsungen, Germany – Masterwork Revisited

    Masterwork Revisited: James Stirling, Michael Wilford & Partners (With Walter Nageli ). Followed by Michael Wilford GmbH Architecture and Landscape United.

  • Callum Innes wins Jerwood Prize

    It has been announced that Callum Innes, a devout minimalist painter whose monochromatic statements of precision and flair, has won the UK’s Jerwood Prize, worth £30,000. Innes, 39, was selected from a mammoth entry of some 1,300 works sent by…

  • The Turner to go international?

    The welcome announcement that the Booker Prize will from 2004 be awardable to American writers has already sent a shiver through the bookmakers stalls that line Tate Britain. Kazuo Ishiguro, Salman Rushdie, Ian McEwan, David Storey, Ben Okri all support…

  • South Bank hopes raised

    The appointment of the former chief executive of the Sydney Opera House, Michael Lynch, 51, to take over the running of London’s quaking South Bank Centre is a brilliant move, even for a glutton for punishment. However, Lynch has all…

  • Obituary: Raymond Durgnat

    Hard to imagine that Ray Durgnat is not still writing and talking. Since his books of film critique still abound, unlike many of the theorists of the l970s whom he so criticised. Films and Feeling (l967) was surely, and still…

  • John Bellany milestone

    The Scottish painter John Bellany will reach 60 this June, and there will be shows in Italy (Barga), Los Angeles, the National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh, and Roger Bilcliffe, Glasgow. Not a bad result for a painter who nearly…

  • Mirror, mirror

    No single model of self-portraiture can stand for the experiences of women generally, or fully express the rich interplay that exists between the examination of the reflected image and the exploration of the social dimensions of lived experience, but self-representation…

  • The Banksias: Watercolours

    ‘The Banksias: Watercolours’, by Celia Rosser at the State Library of Victoria, Melbourne (5 April—30 June 2002) marks the publication of Volume III of The Banksias by Rosser and Alex George. The publication marks the completion of a 25-year-old project…

  • The Boyds; Australian Gothic: a life of Albert Tucker; Sidney Nolan – book reviews

    The Boyds Brenda Niall. (The Miegunya Press, Melbourne University Press, Australia). $A49.95 April 2002 ISBN 0-522-84871-0

  • Mapping the process

    A well-assembled exhibition opens on 31 May at the Essor Gallery, London. Significant among the exhibitions are works by Dan Graham, Sigmar Polke, and Johannes Brus. Dan Graham creates conceptual buildings, making some proposals about changes in lifestyle for consumers,…

  • Kazimir Malevich – The Blackest Square

    The fourth ‘Black Square’ by Kazimir Malevich belonging to Inkombank, which collapsed during the financial crisis in 1998, is now exhibited in the Hermitage. This icon of modernism found its final sanctuary among the masterpieces at the Hermitage exactly in…

  • Skythian baba: A painting counter-revolution

    Natalia Goncharova: The Russian Years. Russian Museum, Benois Wing, St. Petersburg. From 25 April to 15 July, 2002.

  • Paul Klee: The Nature of Creation

    In vast contrast to Tate Modern’s Warhol exhibition earlier this year, the Picasso Matisse which is about to open and other blockbuster museum exhibitions, Paul Klee: The Nature of Creation at the Hayward Gallery was not only a beautifully curated…

  • Turner Prize 2002

    As rumoured, Madonna really will be presenting the 2001 Turner Prize on 9 December in London. This is an amazing coup for the organisers. ‘La Ciccione’ is the perfect choice for an award now saturated with popular culture. Short-listed artists…

  • News from the Royal Academy

    The Royal Academy, London, is much in the news. First of all, esteemed chairperson Sir Anthony Tennant has been under pressure to ‘do the gentlemanly thing’ and tender his resignation following his involvement in the New York auction scam which…

  • Un aventura again?

    The most famous air disaster of the month occurred in Milan where a private pilot flew into the Pirelli Building, the world-famous 32-storey tower designed by the late Italian master architect Gio Ponti. Ironically, 3 May sees the opening of…

  • Manhattan blues

    The Whitney remains a great American Institution, but after two consecutive plunges, its policy needs a radical overhaul. This is a seminal period for the nation’s creativity, when major redefinitions are occurring across the arts spectrum in music, literature and…

  • Fridge woman frozen

    , snowman and other items: RA Summer Exhibition 2002

  • Royal academician fights media moguls for royalties

    Peter Blake, veteran RA and distinguished painter, is justifiably famous for his record sleeve icon designed for Sgt Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band. The famous cover certainly helped promote the music. The amazing thing is that EMI never coughed up…