Archive

  • Outsider Art comes Full Circle – ‘John the Painter’

    Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, 12 February–8 June 2003.

  • Norman Foster to chair Alvar Aalto Committee Charitable Trust

    The Charitable Trust, launched by Lord Foster, Finnish Ambassador Mr Pertti Salolainen and other friends of Alvar Aalto’s architecture, aims to save the Viipuri Library – one of Aalto’s greatest works.

  • Letter from Memphis

    I was in Memphis, Tennessee earlier this year to lecture on Charles Rennie Mackintosh and found myself outside the gates of Graceland, the home of Elvis Presley. So, talking about the design icon of Glasgow, Scotland (as one had to…

  • Titian

    National Gallery, London, 19 February-18 May 2003

  • Masterpieces from Dresden

    Sackler Galleries, Royal Academy, London, 15 March-8 June 2003.

  • Guy Bourdin at the V&A. Fashion photography as art

    In the 1970s, fashion seemed to be at its lowest ebb. The 60s, when London was the style capital of the world, had passed; yet to come were the 80s and 90s when fashion would replace radical politics and rock…

  • Obituary: Joanna Drew

    Obituary: Joanna Drew Joanna Drew, a major and formative influence on British Art from the 1970s onwards died on 20 April 2003, aged 73. She became Director of Exhibitions at the Arts Council of Great Britain in 1975, having first…

  • How world cultures were united

    This summer, the British Museum celebrates a quarter of a millennium of history, with a special exhibition in the Joseph Hotung Gallery of the Great Court. The exhibition is something of a curatorial squeeze, and deals with the interaction of…

  • Saatchi googol

    A crowd for the opening: Of 100 metres that Monday, 21,000, most visitors paying 8.50, filing past the Damien Hurst version Mini, nodding catnaps en route with Duane Hanson’s Traveller. The Tate Modern was hardly struggling with 100,000 visitors predictably…

  • Piper\’s tune

    At Dulwich Picture Gallery, the late John Piper’s 1930s works are on show in ‘Abstraction on the Beach’, through to 22 June 2003. This show helps to reposition Piper’s important role in the development of British Modernism, and to demonstrate…