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  • Letter from Long Island

    There have been some carping comments in British art magazines, such as ‘The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) isn’t what it used to be’. But the fact is, a major transformation is in place, and activity at MoMA Queens is…

  • Howard Hodgkin: Large Paintings 1984-2002

    Howard Hodgkin is regarded as one of the most important artists in Britain working today. Born in 1932, he studied in London and Bath. He first exhibited in 1960 and has gained recognition since that time. He was a Trustee…

  • Metamorphing: Transformation in science, art and mythology

    ‘Metamorphing’ is a Wellcome Trust exhibition at the Science Museum, London, 4 October 2002 – 16 February 2003. For humans, change has always been essential, but difficult nonetheless. For most of our history, the mysteries of change and transformation have…

  • The story of K&M

    Vitaly Komar, Alexander Melamid. ‘Dmitry Tveritinov’s story’ at Marat Guelman’s gallery.

  • Artist as Peacemaker – Beyond Conflict

    Beyond Conflict is an exhibition of 24 Scottish artists, which was conceived as a cultural dialogue between Scotland and Islam, in the wake of 11 September.

  • Documenta 11

    Australia is often out of synch with much of the rest of the world. The progressive Whitlam Labour era of the 1970s was described as ‘half an hour ahead’; more recently the conservative and xenophobic Howard government was accused as…

  • Kitagata Garden City, Japan

    The second scheme was essentially led by a brief by architect Arata Isozaki, in which Martha Schwartz was to be the co-ordinating landscape architect for four separate architect-designed housing groups. This was at Kitagata Garden City, Japan. The Garden City…

  • Antony Gormley Drawing – book review

    The new publication, Antony Gormley Drawing, reveals the working processes behind the sculptures of one of Britain’s most significant artists

  • Unseen Vogue: The Secret History of Fashion Photography

    Unseen Vogue: The Secret History of Fashion Photography

  • Rapture: Art’s seduction by fashion since 1970

    Until visiting this exhibition I had, naively and unconsciously, assumed that contemporary art and fashion were much the same thing. Damien Hirst, Stella McCartney, Tracey Emin, Kate Moss, Alexander McQueen — all seemed perfectly interchangeable in the pages of Hello…