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  • Holocaust Memory

    Through 28 August, the Imperial War Museum, London, is showing the exhibition ‘Legacies of Silence: The Visual Arts and Holocaust Memory’. Curated by Glenn Pujo, it includes the works of some 46 Nazi concentration camp victims, 35 of whom were…

  • David Mach

    On Saturday 4 June, David Mach ignited a matchstick-constructed head of Robert Louis Stevenson, an event which may have not been appropriate say, for the Venice Biennale, but given Mach’s international repute was all the more effective in Edinburgh. Now…

  • RIBA in Ecstasy: British Architectural Awards 2001

    Ecstasy and fatigue, according to neuro-psychologist Richard Gregory, go together. ‘Ecstatic states of mastery over, or of oneness with, all things, are to be treasured, but they can lead to overconfidence, say while climbing a mountain, or piloting an aircraft’.…

  • Patrick Heron: the growing legacy of genius

    ‘The work of Patrick Heron is bound up with what is probably the most crucial series of events in British art since the war: the impact of the new American painting, the absorption of its influence and, eventually, a reaction…

  • Tate Modern manoeuvres

    Tate Modern, still puzzled by the mixed reception of its current blockbuster, Century City, is spinning hard on the permanent collection and its popularity with ‘ordinary citizens’. Sometimes Tate Britain benefits from the spin-off. Stanley Spencer’s ‘Double Nude Portrait: the…

  • Tate Liverpool

    Christoph Grunenberg is the new director, and has been there barely a month. He confronts a major challenge, coming at a time when the city museums are reeling from the tragic death of Liverpool’s Director of Museums and Galleries, Sir…

  • Settecento in Lille

    Lille is suddenly not terminus but interchange: in bold on the travelmap, gratis Rem Koolhas, the doyen of Euro-architects. The dramatic new interchange complex now allows us to stop, or ‘alight here’ as genteel Britrail signs used to read. The…

  • Cloning Libeskind

    Daniel Libeskind is no stranger to Australia and has visited Melbourne. It was something of a surprise to learn that, such was his following, the competition-winning team of Ashton Raggatt McDougal have deployed identifiably Libeskind architecture in the section of…

  • Libeskind advances

    Daniel Libeskind has, despite delays over the brilliant spiral proposals for the Victoria and Albert Museum, been moving forward during the long preliminary. First the Felix Nussbaum Haus in Osnabruck, then the meteoric Jewish Museum in Berlin. Now approaching completion…

  • Galaxy UK

    A little publicised coming-together of British national and regional museums and galleries is emerging as a major line-up of talent for the next autumn and winter seasons. The National Portrait Gallery in London will offer ‘Painted Ladies’, revealing the portraits…