Author: jaywp

  • Museum Tails

    Edinburgh has pulled it off again. The National Gallery on the Mound is not only hosting the outstanding Titian exhibition, but it has also supplied an appropriate Venetian ambience – the unmistakable smell of sewage, combined with various aromas from…

  • Museum Building Boom

    For London, the recently announced plans for a new Wellcome museum-cum-gallery, inside the new Wellcome headquarters, will add a public museum, art gallery and library to the capital’s resources. The Wellcome Institute too will reveal its own collection of medical…

  • Bruce Nauman: Raw Materials

    Tate Modern, London 12 October-28 March 2005

  • Christopher Dresser 1834-1904: A Design Revolution

    Victoria and Albert Museum, London 9 September-5 December 2004

  • The Blue Man: The Portrait of James Milliken by Jean-Etienne Liotard, c.1762.

    Jean-Etienne Liotard (1702-89) was one of the finest portraitists of the eighteenth century. The recently discovered portrait of the son of Scottish landowner, James Milliken of Milliken was probably painted in the early 1760s when James was on the Grand…

  • The National Museum of the American Indian

    Almost 500 years after the “discovery” of America, at last the original inhabitants are being recognized with a new edifice on the Mall of the United States capital. On September 21, 2004 the National Museum of the American Indian opened…

  • Bill Brandt: A Centenary Retrospective

    Victoria and Albert Museum, London 24 March-25 July 2004

  • Russian Landscape in the Age of Tolstoy

    The National Gallery, London 23 June-12 September 2004

  • Past Things and Present: Jasper Johns since 1983

    Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh 13 July-19 September 2004

  • Yoshitomo Nara: From the Depth of my Drawer

    Hara Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo

  • Royal Academy Summer Exhibition 2004

    Royal Academy of Arts, London 8 June-16 August 2004

  • Jacques Henri Lartigue

    Hayward Gallery, London 24 June-5 September 2004

  • Art of the Americas: Latin America and the United States, 1800 to Now!

    Art of the Americas: Latin America and the United States, 1800 to Now!

  • Inventing Race: Casta Painting and Eighteenth Century Mexico

    La invención del mestizaje: La pintura de castas y el siglo XVIII en México Los Angeles County Museum of Art, LA 4 April-8 August 2004

  • Obituary: Lionel Brett (4th Viscount Esher)

    Obituary: Lionel Brett (4th Viscount Esher) Lionel Gordon Baliol Brett, who died on 9 July 2004, aged 90, was an influential architect and town planner in the transitional years following the Second World War, and again in the 1970s. His…

  • Edward Hopper

    Tate Modern, London 27 May-5 September 2004

  • Elsa Schiaparelli

    Elsa Schiaparelli, the flamboyant fashion designer of the Art Deco period, is renowned for her fabulous eccentricity and innovation. She changed fashion and people’s attitudes to it with her scandalous dresses and colourful personality.

  • Swiss Re, a lovable gherkin in space

    ‘If you seek his monument, look around’ – such was the epithet chosen by his son, for Sir Christopher Wren, the architect of St Paul’s Cathedral and so much else in 17th century England.

  • The enigma of Édouard Vuillard

    Vuillard: From post-impressionist to modern master Royal Academy, London 31 January-18 April 2004

  • Jellicoe to Jencks: New landscapes, new allegories.

    Two highly significant but very different landscape and garden theorists are Sir Geoffrey Jellicoe (1900-1996) and Charles Jencks (b. 1939). Geoffrey Jellicoe died in 1995, after 75 years of creativity world-renowned and admired as one of the key architects in…

  • Mark Rowan-Hull: Seeing Music, Hearing Colour

    Mark Rowan-Hull’s abstract paintings form a dialogue with music. Firstly a pianist, Rowan-Hull (born England, 1968) has an intellectual approach to his artistic practise that links aspects of visual art and music

  • The art of home improvement

    Michael Landy’s ‘Semi-detached’ is an arresting sight at Tate Britain. A perfect – full size – reproduction of his parents’ house in Essex. The house is split in two, separated by a columnated space, with two large screen facing one…

  • Other beaches too

    The Barnard Castle, Co Durham, Bowes Museum is hosting (until 30 August 2004) ‘Boudin, Monet and the Sea Painters of Normandy’. The exhibition allows the rare opportunity to compare Boudin, Courbet, and Monet closely with lesser known artists such as…

  • MoMA reborn

    The disappearance of the ‘old’ Museum of Modern Art has left old modernists in old New York gasping. But, to quote Michael Winner (in those irritating car insurance ads) – ‘calm down’. The remodelling is more; it is totally new…