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Not many art enthusiasts will have been able to visit the exhibition ‘The Snow Show’, on at Kemi and Rovaniemi in Northern Finland, until 31 March 2004. Kemi is on the Northern edge of the Gulf of Bothnia, an hour…

The fact that David Hockney is spending more and more time in Britain, either in Yorkshire or in London, suggests that he is here to stay, as much as one might be prepared to commit to anywhere nowadays. This could…

Louse MacBain is moving into pole position in the international world of art media. The purchase of Art + Auction last year by MacBain has already much improved the visual presentation of the journal, a notable form manual for the…

Robert Venturi and Denise Scott Brown, erstwhile architects of the National Gallery, London, (‘More Post Office than Post Modern’, according to one critic) spoke at the Royal Institute of British Architects on 15 March 2004. They rely upon being controversial,…

A rare conjunction of musical and architectural genius has been brought about by the provision of Sir Giles Gilbert Scott’s 12.5-second reverberation time, found now to perfectly accommodate Sir John Tavener’s ‘The Atma Mass’, at Liverpool’s great Anglican cathedral. Tavener…

Daniel Libeskind slipped unobtrusively back into London from New York, again, for 8 and 9 March 2004 to attend the opening of London’s stealthiest new acquisition, the Graduate Centre for London Metropolitan University on the Holloway Road in North London.…

The once semi-derelict Isokon building, in Belsize Park in North London, has now reopened, and following a 2.3 million renovation, the flats are being snapped up. But in a unique adherence to social ethos, some 25 of the 36 flats…

Sir Peter Blake and Sir Colin St John Wilson, as interviewed by Peter Stanford in The Independent on Sunday (14 March 2004) seem more like mentor and student than buddies. But buddies they are, and they represent a revealing slice…