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  • The Print in Italy 1550-1620

    ‘The Print in Italy 1550–1620’ at the British Museum (27 September 2001–6 January 2002) is an exceptional exhibition of over 150 works from the museum’s own collection as well as a number of important loans. It is the first exhibition…

  • The Las Vegas Guggenheim Museum

    Rem Koolhaas, architect and author of Delirious New York, an important architectural tract of the mid-1970s, then made a telling New York skyscraper image entitled ‘Dream of Liberty’ with Madelon Vriesendorp. September 11 will have brought to mind this picture…

  • The Royal Institute of British Architects’ Stirling Prize 2001

    This year’s award ceremony in the Great Court of the British Museum (itself not a contender) was memorable in that the favourite didn’t win. Last year considerable added interest to the learned deliberations of the judges was given by Tracey…

  • Monuments for destruction

    Image and Idol: Medieval Sculpture Tate Britain, to 3 March 2002

  • Anthony d’Offay

    Anthony d’Offay’s recent and sudden announcement of closure seems shocking, if characteristically mysterious, after 36 years of meteoric rise. With an annual turnover of around $35 million the doors will close before Christmas to the triad of exhibition spaces which…

  • No trampoline needed for Manhattan now

  • Student Prince

    The decision of Prince William to pursue Art History roused Evening Standard (London) art critic Brian Sewell to severely criticise the appropriateness of his choice of study. But as a foundation year curriculum it is broadly based: architectural history is…

  • South Bank, underneath the arches

    … we while the time away. Well, it has taken several months in fact to appoint an architect in line with architect Rick Mather’s excellent Master Plan on London’s South Bank. That was two years ago. Then an architectural competition…

  • Risen Christ — spent force?

    Michelangelo’s drawing ‘Study for the risen Christ’, has been suspended from export following arts minister Baroness Blackstone’s order, for a period until just before Christmas. Scotland’s National Galleries (Director-General Timothy Clifford) are believed to be the force behind this move.…

  • Paula Rego in Kendal

    One of the best events of the summer, out of London (through 7 October) has been the exhibition, at the Abbot Hall Gallery, Kendal, in the Lake District, of works completed in the last three years by the Portugese painter…

  • Mystery burger unearthed

    In London, the Victoria and Albert Museum, in a recent delving, have just found a previously unidentified Hans Holbein miniature, thought to be of a goldsmith by the name of Hans. He was a close friend of Holbein, and set…

  • You beaut country

    In his foreword to the exhibition, Julian Agnew extolls the virtues of Australian culture:

  • Hieronymus Bosch

    Rotterdam, Musem Boijmans van Beuningen, through 11 November 2001.

  • Comment on September 11

    Some happenings are so extraordinary that they outweigh, at least for the present, their ramifications. No apocalyptic event before September was enacted in full view of almost the whole world. Billions of people watched on television as one of the…

  • Frank Auerbach: Paintings and Drawings 1954-2001

    The paintings on show at the RA have an effect that it would have been impossible to anticipate; the grand space of the galleries and the juxtaposition of the paintings achieve resonance which would have been impossible in smaller spaces.…

  • Surviving fragment

    Philippe de Montebello, the Director of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York has emerged as one of the strongest supporters of the idea that a monument should be created with the surviving fragment of one wall of the World…

  • Jewish Museum in Berlin opens Exhibition

    Jewish Museum in Berlin opens exhibition

  • Michael Andrews revisited

    If there was ever a clearer purpose and definition of the respective rationale behind the division of Tate works into Tate Modern and Tate Britain, the present retrospective of the painter Michael Andrews is a reassuring touchstone. Whereas  (not even…

  • Balthus

    Palazzo Grassi, Venice through January 2002

  • September Eleventh: European thoughts

    The New York atrocity bears many aspects: barbaric evil of the most primitive kind accompanied by the most sophisticated high technology is one. As John Bloom, who saw it from below, reported in the Sunday Telegraph, it was the skilled,…

  • Experiment Experiencia: Art in Brazil 1958-2000

    Museum of Modern Art, Oxford, through 21 October 2001.

  • Milton Avery Late Works — Landscapes and Seascapes, 1951–1963

    Avery never achieved the critical acclaim that he deserved in his lifetime, and yet his pivotal role in the development of Abstract Expressionism is unquestioned. Avery is very much a painter’s painter, and exerted great influence on the generation of…

  • Ed Ruscha: The Mountains

    Inverleith House, Edinburgh, through 14 October 2001.

  • Hello Culture

    Matthew Collings’ masterly series on British television (Channel 4) has essentially redrawn the role of the medium in assessing cultural values. An appropriate, 21st century lope through the flowing, eddying pressures of media on historical cultures, the series should have…