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Karel Nel: Status of Dust

Art First Contemporary Art, 9 Cork Street, London, W1 9 November 2003-22 January 2004
Bill Viola: The Passions

The National Gallery, London 22 October 2003—4 January 2004
A Crystalline, Kaleidoscopic Universe – Prada Aoyama, Tokyo by Herzog & de Meuron

In 1999 Prada launched the “Epicentre Store” programme to examine different ways of reinventing the Prada retail experience by commissioning avant-garde architects like Rem Koolhaas and SANNA to design their new shops. The latest addition to the programme was Prada…
Spider in the Field – Snow-Land Agrarian Culture Center, Matsudai by MVRDV

MVRDV is an office for urbanism and architecture based in Rotterdam, the Netherlands, founded by Winy Maas, Jacob van Rijs and Nathalie de Vries in 1991 after they won the first prize in the Berlin Europan Competition. They are well…
Interview with David Elliott, Director of Mori Art Museum, Tokyo

Since it opened in October 2003, the Mori Art Museum in Tokyo has attracted 750,000 visitors for its inaugural exhibition ‘Happiness: a survival guide for art and life’. This figure is surprising considering that the Mori Museum does not have…
Vital Configurations: The paintings of Susan Rothenberg

Waddington Galleries, London 29 October – 22 November 2003
REM KOOLHAAS NEARER HOME

A major retrospective of architect Rem’s work opens on 27 March 2004 at the Kunsthal, Rotterdam. After a ‘wow’ at the Nationalgalerie in Berlin, Koolhaas’ buildings revel in the overwhelming complexity of certain sites. The ‘Berlin Block’ came in for…
LIBESKIND IN HOLLOWAY

Daniel Libeskind’s first London building (there is already the War Museum in Salford) has slipped quietly into the North London skyline, less controversially and less dramatically than his recently unveiled proposals for Ground Zero. In New York, he will bring…
BRANCUSI \’S BIRD
BAGS OF FUN, LOADS OF RUBBISH

Bags of fun, loads of rubbish