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  • Groves of technology

    The UK-based Stanton Williams architectural practice is redeveloping Place Cornavin in Geneva: a tarmac desert in need of an oasis. The solution, Geneva-born project architect Patrick Richard has discovered, is to let high technology form the shade. Such a gateway…

  • From Goya to Bean

    UK television viewers on the first Saturday evening in March will be able to combine uniquely two cultural ‘must sees’. In the first case, BBC2 is hosting BBC4 (Digital)’s launch evening schedule, fronted up by Bob Hughe’s deeply personal ‘Goya…

  • Gone from Gagosian

    The Gagosian Gallery in Chelsea has just closed (22 February) on Cy Twombly’s thematic group of war paintings relating to the famed Battle of Lepanto of Islamic-Christian shared memory, (and shown within hailing distance of Ground Zero). The point is…

  • Fleming’s notes continue

    A new gallery and a longstanding art collection opened last month in Berkeley Street, London. A flood of nightingales sang all night in Berkeley Square, stimulated perhaps by the strain of bagpipes from the doors of the Fleming-Wyfold Art Foundation,…

  • Demarco returns

    This month, Richard Demarco reports here on a dramatic return visit to the Poland of Stanislawski, Borowski, and Kantor. Holder now of the Gold Order of Merit, Demarco is at last reaping the harvest of long years of travail and…

  • Tell that to Andy

    The phenomenal marketing jamboree associated with the current Warhol exhibition at Tate Modern would have brought a diffident smile to Andy Warhol if he could have seen it all. After the modest 10 entry fee (plus concessions) the 2,500 average…

  • American Beauty

    From the ‘American Sublime’ (at Tate Britain) to the beautiful at Tate Modern. The comments of UK leading critics have been many-thonged. ‘It’s a dumb deal: Andy Warhol was a lot smarter than Tate Modern’s disappointing retrospective lets on’, said…

  • Letter from Poland

    Thursday 14 February The day’s programme began with 10 am meeting at the office of Andrzej Sontag, the Director of the Lodz Region for the Department of Culture, Education and Sport. Also present was his colleague and deputy, Marian Labedziv,…

  • American Sublime: Landscape Painting in the United States 1820-1880

    Tate Gallery, Tate Britain, through 19 May 2002.

  • Cromwell as art enthusiast

    Cromwell as art enthusiast Only thanks to Oliver Cromwell did a very significant proportion of the art collection of King Charles I come to form the basis of the Prado Museum in Madrid. In 1649, with the king beheaded, there…