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  • August high season for old master recoveries

    August high season for old master recoveries

  • Spirits raised: art in the making

    October 27 sees the opening of a major and scholarly exhibition at the National Gallery, London. Images have been retrieved from the underdrawings to major oil and tempera works by Raphael, Brueghel and Cranach the Elder, and Carlo Crevelli, as…

  • Matisse Picasso

    One of the finest exhibitions of many years, it is a collaboration between the Tate, the Réunion des Musées Nationaux/Musée Picasso with the Musée National d’Art Moderne/Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris and the Museum of Modern Art, New York

  • Daniel Libeskind: Imperial War Museum at Salford, Manchester

    Daniel Libeskind’s new building, an adjunct to the Imperial War Museum in Lambeth, South London, is situated beside the Manchester Ship Canal in Salford. Somehow this was a perfect ‘stealth’ affair. While the launch was crowded, very few of those…

  • Stonehenge rising

    Australian architectural firm Denton Corker Marshall, originally of Melbourne but now well-established in London, will at last see their competition-winning design for the environs of Stonehenge get built. The target, for completion is to be 2008. The 7000-acre Stonehenge site…

  • Sickert’s Secret

    A painting by Walter Sickert, entitled merely ‘One of Madame Villain’s Sons’ has been bought from Vanessa Bell’s family by the Charleston House Trust, for 24,000, dependent upon a 14,000 grant from the Art Fund charity. We are quite certain…

  • New Pavilion at the Serpentine

    The new Pavilion at the Serpentine Gallery, Kensington Gardens, designed by the Japanese master Toyo Ito, has been drawing in crowds in the unseasonably warm late July climate. One cannot miss this perforated box. White and structurally heavy in steel…

  • Monument of the North online

    A new website entitled Monument has gone online based in Newcastle. Two Francisco-based net artists came over to Newcastle thinking there was real documentary film to be made about the city’s cultural history. However, Monument actually shows a selection of…

  • Diana’s space

    The announcement by Tessa Jowell on 31 July, that the scheme chosen to be commissioned to build the memorial fountain to Diana, Princess of Wales in Hyde Park is that of the American landscape designer Kathryn Gustafson is entirely the…

  • New wrap for Auntie: BBC unveils building plans

    At a time when most organisations are throwing in the sponge and moving out to the periphery of their home city, the BBC has unveiled dramatic new plans by Sir Richard MacCormac of MacCormac Jameson and Pritchard to concentrate key…