Author: jaywp

  • Klimt rises

  • Michael Jackson forcibly removed

    Not the person, but the portrait of Jackson by Maggi Hambling (perhaps an opportunistic choice of subject by the artist) was rejected by the Royal Academy’s ‘Summer Exhibition’, following distaste expressed by Anthony Green – who holds no little sway…

  • Earth to earth

    The Chelsea flower show once again grabbed all the headlines in the colour sections at the end of May. Tate Britain attempt to hijack the thematic approach, with their exhibition ‘Art and the Garden’, running to 30 August 2004. What…

  • De Kooning plots posterity

    The enigma of de Kooning’s late works, when he suffered from Alzheimer’s disease, persists; they are notorious if only for the cloud that hangs over them. The centennial exhibition at the Gagosian Gallery in New York, closing on 19 June…

  • Bacon\’s female lover, back on the market

    Isabel Rawsthorne, the subject of famous portraits by Francis Bacon, died in 1992. She had met Bacon in her late forties, having earlier been painted by Picasso while living with André Derain in Paris. Bacon was fascinated by her, and…

  • Roy Lichtenstein

    Hayward Gallery, South Bank Centre, London 26 February-16 May 2004

  • Everchanging mirage – Louis Vuitton Roppongi Hills

    Louis Vuitton first started as a manufacturer of expensive luggage and bags. Over the years, the company has ventured into the greater world of luxury and came up with a range of products that is a direct equation to status.…

  • Lawn Road Flats

    There is a beautiful film called ‘England: Home and Beauty’ that is a testament to the glamour of the 1920s and 1930s. In it, young elegant women wearing long, sleek evening dresses arrive home late at night, alighting from their…

  • Dior Omotesando

    With the latest trend of fashion houses stamping their presence in Japan by engaging architects to design their flagship building along the trendy Omotesando in Tokyo, Dior is no exception as well. Fifty years after the first Christian Dior fashion…

  • Awesome Archigram

    Design Museum, London Until 4 July 2004