Archive
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Craigie Aitchison
Jillian and Arthur M. Sackler Wing Royal Academy of Arts, London 9 October–9 November 2003.
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Frank Gehry – Maggie’s Centre, Dundee
On the western, landscaped edge of Dundee city, overlooking the Tay Estuary, Frank Gehry’s very latest work stands complete. It exists mindful of particular place-related precedent, of shrines or temples from pre-history or early classical periods. But this gem of…
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Winifred Nicholson in Scotland
The Dean Gallery, Edinburgh, 10 July-7 September 2003 Duff House, Banff, 8 November 2003-18 January 2004 An Tuireann, Skye, 24 January-20 March 2004
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Book review: Figuring it out
Colin Renfrew. London: Thames & Hudson 2003. ISBN 0500 051143. 224pp, £32.00 In The Shape of Time (1962), George Kubler showed that our knowledge of the distant past relied mainly upon the visible products of man’s industry. In contrast, the…
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Book review: The Raft of the Medusa: G
Albert Alhadeff. Munich, Berlin, London, New York: Prestel Publishing 2002. Géricault’s masterpiece will always have more secrets to reveal about itself than any of its Napoleonic companion pieces, even those on a similarly grand scale by David and Delacroix, which…
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Jon Schueler\’s sky
From Mallaig, the late Jon Schueler used to captivate Edinburgh. A wartime sky observed from the turret of a B-17 Flying Fortress, enhanced his knowledge of the many moods of the Isle of Skye, observed distantly, painted movingly. He exhibited…
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Julian Schnabel in Edinburgh
Schnabel seems like a ghost from the past, from the booming, prancing 1980s. Strange then that he should have crashed through at the Edinburgh Festival. But it’s a quieter Schnabel, seemingly without the broken dishes, on show this year. The…
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Cedric Price
He was a charismatic architect, larger than life. He visibly stood for the social principles of architects who inherited standards of social engagement from the 1930s generation. He was always characteristically ‘smart’ with a preference for black or grey; smart…
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Patrick Procktor: Gone Away
Patrick is no longer with us. He is irreplaceably gone. A great and noble figure, yet deliberately, unavoidably human. Whether in his beautiful lithographs of the Ganges, or his grand paintings of an unfamiliar, wintry Venice, his works were supremely…
