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  • Manhattan take two

    Daniel Libeskind’s experiences of Ground Zero since his victory in the competition to redevelop the site earlier this year have shown one thing at least: that none of his competitors could have taken it all the way he has done.…

  • Killer Icon

    St Petersburg’s Hermitage Museum has confirmed through an official, Boris Sapunov, that the middle section of one of their icons depicting Christ, seemingly painted by an apprentice, has ‘a negative bio-field’. Not just a case of inferior work, apparently, but…

  • Thirst for Hirst

    Damien Hirst’s new exhibition ‘Romance in the Age of Uncertainty’ – open until 19 October 2003 at White Cube (London N1) – is undoubtedly drawing the crowds. There is a lot of God around. With religion here goes death, religiously…

  • Blake at Stake

    Bumping into Sir Peter Blake, RA, emerging from Waddingtons in Cork St (his dealer), one was conscious of a sense of deja-vu. With all this religious fervour about, one could have been on the way to visit the Blake ‘Madonna…

  • Bridget Riley at Tate Britain

    Tate Britain, 26 June-28 September 2003

  • Monet: The Seine and the sea, 1878-1883

    The Royal Scottish Academy Building, The Mound, Edinburgh 6 August-26 October 2003

  • Picasso’s designs for Diaghilev’s Les Ballets Russes

    The Edinburgh Festival is not always as strong in the visual arts as it is in the range of excellent performances in ballet, music and theatre. However, it was an inspiring and appropriate venue for an exhibition of one of…

  • Daniel Libeskind: Felix Nussbaum Museum in Osnabrück

    Felix Nussbaum Museum, Osnabrück, Germany Architect: Daniel Libeskind

  • Does Viennese cafe society still exist?

    Does Viennese cafe society still exist?

  • Max Beckmann book reviews

    Edited by Sean Rainbird, London: Tate Publishing, 2003.