Author: jaywp

  • 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…