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Colin Renfrew. London: Thames & Hudson 2003. ISBN 0500 051143. 224pp, £32.00 In The Shape of Time (1962), George Kubler showed that our knowledge of the distant past relied mainly upon the visible products of man’s industry. In contrast, the…

Albert Alhadeff. Munich, Berlin, London, New York: Prestel Publishing 2002. Géricault’s masterpiece will always have more secrets to reveal about itself than any of its Napoleonic companion pieces, even those on a similarly grand scale by David and Delacroix, which…

From Mallaig, the late Jon Schueler used to captivate Edinburgh. A wartime sky observed from the turret of a B-17 Flying Fortress, enhanced his knowledge of the many moods of the Isle of Skye, observed distantly, painted movingly. He exhibited…

Schnabel seems like a ghost from the past, from the booming, prancing 1980s. Strange then that he should have crashed through at the Edinburgh Festival. But it’s a quieter Schnabel, seemingly without the broken dishes, on show this year. The…

He was a charismatic architect, larger than life. He visibly stood for the social principles of architects who inherited standards of social engagement from the 1930s generation. He was always characteristically ‘smart’ with a preference for black or grey; smart…

Patrick is no longer with us. He is irreplaceably gone. A great and noble figure, yet deliberately, unavoidably human. Whether in his beautiful lithographs of the Ganges, or his grand paintings of an unfamiliar, wintry Venice, his works were supremely…

Daniel Libeskind’s experiences of Ground Zero since his victory in the competition to redevelop the site earlier this year have shown one thing at least: that none of his competitors could have taken it all the way he has done.…

St Petersburg’s Hermitage Museum has confirmed through an official, Boris Sapunov, that the middle section of one of their icons depicting Christ, seemingly painted by an apprentice, has ‘a negative bio-field’. Not just a case of inferior work, apparently, but…

Damien Hirst’s new exhibition ‘Romance in the Age of Uncertainty’ – open until 19 October 2003 at White Cube (London N1) – is undoubtedly drawing the crowds. There is a lot of God around. With religion here goes death, religiously…

Bumping into Sir Peter Blake, RA, emerging from Waddingtons in Cork St (his dealer), one was conscious of a sense of deja-vu. With all this religious fervour about, one could have been on the way to visit the Blake ‘Madonna…