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Jannis Kounellis: Modern Art Oxford. 15 December-20 March 2005

Jannis Kounellis: Modern Art Oxford. 15 December-20 March 2005 This quasi-retrospective exhibition of the work of Jannis Kounellis is a remarkable opportunity to assess the continuing significance of this outstanding artist. Born in 1936, he has been described by some…
The Art of Romare Bearden

Whitney Museum of American Art, New York 14 October 2004-9 January 2005 High Museum of Art, Atlanta 29 January-24 April 2005
Archilab: New Experiments in Architecture, Art and the City, 1950-2005

Mori Art Museum, Tokyo 21 December 2004-13 March 2005
Book review: Landscape Design and the Experience of Motion

Conan points out how much attention to the experience of motion rules out the picturesque aesthetic, still dominant in landscape design. At the heart of such new approaches to landscape design come the designs of Bernard Lassus in France, and…
Artists’ Estates: Reputations in Trust

Magda Salvesen and Diane Cousineau (eds). New Brunswick, New Jersey, and London: Rutgers University Press, 2005 ISBN 0813536049 Artists, like everyone else, die leaving legacies and estates, which they hope can safeguard both their living relatives and other beneficiaries, as…
William Orpen at the Imperial War Museum

William Orpen is currently up for reappraisal and the Imperial War Museum has started to make a name for itself in this way. Firstly, there was the superb Eric Ravilious exhibition last year. Now, Orpen has been rescued from the…
Christo’s Wrappings

Now that the ‘The Gates’ are all dissembled in Central Park (and no doubt carefully stored while their value accumulates – what price one or two ‘Gates’?), it is useful here at Studio to reflect on the artists’ previous works.…
Moving Horizons: The Landscape Architecture of Kathryn Gustafson and Partners – book review

Jane Amidon. Birkhauser, 2005 ISBN 3764324252
Turner Whistler Monet

Tate Britain, London 10 February-15 May 2005
The Art Olympics – The Eighth Shanghai Art Fair

Rather than merely focusing on art works which cater to the masses, the Eighth Shanghai Art Fair has again divided its exhibition contents into two different categories, in an effort to raise the level of artistic content of the Fair…