Archive

  • Arne Jacobsen Centenary

    February sees the end of the celebrations marking the 100th anniversary of the birth of the Danish architect and designer, Arne Jacobsen

  • Andy Warhol: A retrospective at Tate Modern

    Tate Modern, through 1 April 2002.

  • Letter from Sydney

    Nick Waterlow The year 2000 in Sydney was a hard act to follow. Every cynic – and there were many in the art world – who fled the Olympics was greeted on their homecoming with adulatory anecdotes, from the Games…

  • The authentic and the twitch: architecture, tourism and simulacrum

    Increasingly, we now seek to verify what is presented as ‘real’: we are wary of ‘simulacrum’ having perhaps enjoyed ‘something having the form or appearance of a certain thing’ or having experienced ‘mere image, a specious imitation or likeness of…

  • The Art of Ken Done

    Janet McKenzie, Sydney: Craftsman House, AU$100/ US$60/GB£50

  • Will Maclean: Driftworks

    Will Maclean’s exhibition, ‘Driftworks’ at Dundee Contemporary Arts is the finest exhibition by a contemporary artist in Scotland that I have seen in the 14 years I have lived there since coming from Australia. It coincides with the publication of…

  • Letter from Shanghai

    Ever since the Treaty of Nangking opened Shanghai to foreign trade in 1842, the city has become a trading centre not to be ignored. The setting up of the International Settlement in 1863 and free-trading concessions opened the way for…

  • The return of Wittgenstein

    Currently showing in London is a small ‘cabinet’ exhibition open to the public in the Library Print Room, Royal Academy, through 28 January. The philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein has been a compelling figure in British intellectual life. He died in Cambridge…

  • Kirsty Wark at BBC2 Newsnight Review (Arts)

    One of the traumas of 2001 was, for UK viewers jealously treasuring the almost uniquely intelligent comment garnered by Mark Lawson in the chair of the weekly half-hour long survivor of ‘The Late Review’ (long lamented), the peripatetic replacement of…

  • Tate Britain’s birthday suits: ‘Exposed: The Victorian Nude’

    Tate Britain’s birthday suits: ‘Exposed: The Victorian Nude’