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  • Goodbye Culture

    The latest blow is the emasculation (yes, Germaine) of critique on television. Mark Lawson is a current victim. Because it’s Edinburgh Festival and Fringe Time, Kirsty Wark replaces Collings as the presenter of the Newsnight Arts Review. The assumption that…

  • Dan Flavin

    Serpentine Gallery, London, through 23 September 2001.

  • Illusion – Japanese Photography

    ‘Illusion – Japanese photography’ at the Kulturhuset consists of the work of eleven Japanese photographers connected by a ‘surrealistic, dream-like quality’. The photographs on display are intended to act as ‘an exposé of Japanese photography from the 1930s up to…

  • The Surrealist and the Photographer: Roland Penrose and Lee Miller

    The Surrealist and the Photographer: Roland Penrose and Lee Miller Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh, through 9 September

  • Peter Fuller: Image for Sale

    Peter Fuller: image for sale Phillips Salesroom, Edinburgh Tragic story. Portrait of Peter Fuller by John Bellany

  • Claude Quiche, Claude Lorrain and the World of the Gods

    Musee d’Art Ancien et Contemporain, Epinal, France through 20 August 2001

  • Royal Academy Charles Wollaston Prize (£25,000)

    Royal Academy Charles Wollaston Prize (25,000)

  • David Sylvester

    The death of the author, historian and critic David Sylvester on l9 June, aged 76, has now robbed the world of a leading expert on Francis Bacon — his parents had been Russian-Jewish silver experts and dealers — whilst Rene…

  • Rogers’ Vicissitudes

    It was announced in early July that the Welsh Assembly did not wish to proceed with Lord Rogers’ design for the new Assembly. Meanwhile, the Greater London Authority’s ‘City Hall’ building by Rogers’ contemporary and former partner, Lord (Norman) Foster,…

  • Riven Tate

    Industrial action at Tate Modern? It seems a contradiction in terms. How can the great emporium dedicated to displaying the promise of a better world be riven with strikes? The Institution of Professionals, Managers, and Specialists no less, is representing…

  • Quangos Vanish

    The Arts Council of England will appoint regional officers to replace the ten regional arts boards. Chairman Gerry Robinson’s efforts to replace the regional boards have met with sheer opposition from the supposedly ‘autonomous’ quangoids. Local authorities are to have…

  • Niklaus Pevsner Celebrated

    The English sensibility over architecture today has been shaped more by Sir Niklaus Pevsner than anyone it seems. He wrote, or jointly authored, some 42 volumes of The Buildings of England, county by county, before dying in l983. This magnificent…

  • National Gallery windfall

    Mark Getty, with his uncle Gordon Getty, has given 10 million to the National Gallery, London. Mark is the creator of Getty Images, one of the world’s major digital archives. He is one of two sons of Sir Paul Getty’s…

  • National Gallery completes Masaccio ‘jigsaw’

    Neil McGregor, Director, has achieved a remarkable re-composition: Masaccio’s ‘Virgin and Child’ of 1426 (this year is the 600th anniversary of the artist’s birth) which comprises a central panel (‘Virgin and Child’) owned by the Gallery, along with the ‘Adoration…

  • Retrieving Durer

    This week historic drawings valued at over DM 30 million have been returned to the Bremen Kunstwerein, their original home. Albrecht Durer’s ‘The Women’s Bathhouse’ — a masterly depiction of nude females enjoying their ablutions — has long been missed.…

  • A marriage, a home

    Bradford city will be the home of the newly conjoined collections of the Royal Photographic Society and of the National Museum of Photography, Film, and Television. Lord Puttnam, matchmaker of this inspired marriage, and appointed Trustee, commented, ‘When two unique…

  • Paris comment: e-letter from Paris

    Paris comment: e-letter from Paris Art Populaire, Liza Lou’s Back Yard

  • London comment: e-letter from London

    The sudden departure of Chief Curator Lars Nittve from the Tate Modern in July suggested that all was not well at the great terminus of modern art, following the Century City extravaganza which so dismayed the critics. The sackcloth and…

  • Finnish Design Exhibition in London

    ‘Departures’ at Vessel, 114 Kensington Park Road, London W 11. 27 June —31 August

  • Brueghel at Rotterdam

    Pieter Brueghel the Elder, Master Draughtsman at the Museum Beijmans van Beuningen. Brueghel at Rotterdam, through 5 August (then Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York 25 September – 2 December 2001).

  • Berlin embraces the sublime

    About the Sublime: Mark Rothko, Yves Klein, James Turrell, Deutsche Guggenheim Museum, 7 July through 7 October 2001

  • Giorgio Morandi

    Tate Modern, London, through 12 August 2001.

  • Arte Povera at Tate Modern

    Arte Povera Tate Modern, through 19 August 2001.

  • Silence of the Limbs

    Körperwelten Exhibition, Berlin through 2 September, Brussels from 22 September