Archive
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Museum Tails
Edinburgh has pulled it off again. The National Gallery on the Mound is not only hosting the outstanding Titian exhibition, but it has also supplied an appropriate Venetian ambience – the unmistakable smell of sewage, combined with various aromas from…
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Museum Building Boom
For London, the recently announced plans for a new Wellcome museum-cum-gallery, inside the new Wellcome headquarters, will add a public museum, art gallery and library to the capital’s resources. The Wellcome Institute too will reveal its own collection of medical…
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Bruce Nauman: Raw Materials
Tate Modern, London 12 October-28 March 2005
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Christopher Dresser 1834-1904: A Design Revolution
Victoria and Albert Museum, London 9 September-5 December 2004
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The Blue Man: The Portrait of James Milliken by Jean-Etienne Liotard, c.1762.
Jean-Etienne Liotard (1702-89) was one of the finest portraitists of the eighteenth century. The recently discovered portrait of the son of Scottish landowner, James Milliken of Milliken was probably painted in the early 1760s when James was on the Grand…
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The National Museum of the American Indian
Almost 500 years after the “discovery” of America, at last the original inhabitants are being recognized with a new edifice on the Mall of the United States capital. On September 21, 2004 the National Museum of the American Indian opened…
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Bill Brandt: A Centenary Retrospective
Victoria and Albert Museum, London 24 March-25 July 2004
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Russian Landscape in the Age of Tolstoy
The National Gallery, London 23 June-12 September 2004
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Past Things and Present: Jasper Johns since 1983
Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh 13 July-19 September 2004
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Yoshitomo Nara: From the Depth of my Drawer
Hara Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo
