Author: jaywp

  • Norman Foster: Works 1

    Edited by David Jenkins. London, New York: Prestel Publishing, 2003.

  • Gormley at White Cube

    For the period through to the end of May, White Cube will be showing works by one of the world’s most recognised sculptors, Antony Gormley. His new work, ‘Clearing’ at White Cube, is composed of 7 km of rod that…

  • Bugatti memories

    Brian Sewell was right to question (The Independent, 6 April 2004) the attempt to resuscitate the revered name of Bugatti in the 21st century. Surely the untimely end of Ettore Bugatti in 1947 aged 66, and of his son Jean,…

  • BritArt, how we have loved you

    The nation’s love affair with BritArt was hyped up as recently as last February, when Sotheby’s sold 14.7 million-worth of the genre. Can it really be true that, ‘Britain’s love affair with BritArt meant that a new generation of young…

  • Archives

    The John Murray publishing house would have had little difficulty in finding a home and a purchaser for its archive, which is thought to be worth some 45 million. However, it is intended that it will go to the National…

  • Tax Windfall

    The Russian magnate Vladimir Logvinenko has the ambition to bring into St Petersburg again and to other Russian Museums, outstanding paintings. For a long time, he could not bring this to fruition. But the removal of Russia’s 30% import tax…

  • Snow Jobs

    Not many art enthusiasts will have been able to visit the exhibition ‘The Snow Show’, on at Kemi and Rovaniemi in Northern Finland, until 31 March 2004. Kemi is on the Northern edge of the Gulf of Bothnia, an hour…

  • Settled in London

    The fact that David Hockney is spending more and more time in Britain, either in Yorkshire or in London, suggests that he is here to stay, as much as one might be prepared to commit to anywhere nowadays. This could…

  • Prospecting Louise

    Louse MacBain is moving into pole position in the international world of art media. The purchase of Art + Auction last year by MacBain has already much improved the visual presentation of the journal, a notable form manual for the…

  • Passing in the Night

    Robert Venturi and Denise Scott Brown, erstwhile architects of the National Gallery, London, (‘More Post Office than Post Modern’, according to one critic) spoke at the Royal Institute of British Architects on 15 March 2004. They rely upon being controversial,…