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  • Aldeburgh appalled

    Maggi Hambling has suffered a setback on Aldeburgh beach. The Scallop, which since November 2003 has graced, or – as the local Council would say – contaminated Aldeburgh’s shingly foreshore, has not run foul of any EU Health and Safety…

  • Worldly Wisdom: The Enlightenment Gallery

    British Museum, London. Opened 12 December 2003

  • Ashley Havinden: Advertising and the Artist

    Dean Gallery, Edinburgh 15 October 2003 – 18 January 2004

  • Waldemar Meets Gerhard

    Gerhard Richter’s recent New York MOMA retrospective was profoundly moving, yet he remains an artist of whom British Gallery directors have fought shy for many years

  • Von Hagens Caught Out, Wriggling

    The news that German state prosecutors are now reviewing the notorious anatomist “artist’s” work comes amid information that Von Hagens may have included the corpses of executed prisoners. Certainly a moneyspinner, his exhibit attracted a total of 850,000 visitors during…

  • TIDINGS OF JOY: TURNER PRIZE 2003

    TIDINGS OF JOY: TURNER PRIZE 2003 The 2003 Turner Prize was awarded at Tate Britain on Sunday evening, 7 December. The £20,000 ($34,000) award was picked up by Grayson Perry, who describes himself as a ‘transvestite potter from Essex’. This…

  • Steven Holl – After Kiasma

    The American architect Steven Holl’s key European debut was the Kiasma Museum of Modern Art, erected with the help of Juhani Pallasmaa opposite the Parliament Building, Helsinki in 2000. But now he, like Peter Cook, has been persuaded to build…

  • ASHLEY HAVINDEN

    Dean Gallery, Edinburgh 15 October 2003 – 18 January 2004

  • Cooking the Books

    The Royal Gold Medal for Architecture was awarded this year to the historic 1970s’ architectural group survivors, led by Professor Peter Cook of the Bartlett School of Architecture, University College, London. However Peter Cook (together with Colin Fournier) has himself…

  • Eric Ravilious

    Imperial War Museum, London 23 October 2003 – 25 January 2004