Author: jaywp

Blowing open the turbine hall (soon): foretaste from Eliasson

In the Danish national pavilion, Olafur Eliasson (‘The Blind Pavilion’) provides a welcome series of optical variations that are polarised in orange light using kaleidoscopes and a multi-faceted array internally. If this offers a foretaste of the artist’s repertoire in…
Booty abounds

The combination of looted heritage from Afghanistan with that from Baghdad has suddenly created a buyer’s market, with an evident surplus of works. There has been no useful analysis as yet about the trade routes for this spread of relics,…
Absolutely vital for survival | How vodka in Venice is ‘absolutely’ best paired with tonic

Absolutely vital for survival; or how vodka in Venice is ‘absolutely’ best paired with tonic
Mario Testino: Portraits

Dean Gallery, Edinburgh, 16 April-15 June 2003.
Designer of the Year

Design Museum, London, 1 March—29 June 2003.
John Piper in the 1930s – Abstraction on the Beach

John Piper in the 1930s – Abstraction on the Beach
Outsider Art comes Full Circle – ‘John the Painter’

Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, 12 February–8 June 2003.
Norman Foster to chair Alvar Aalto Committee Charitable Trust

The Charitable Trust, launched by Lord Foster, Finnish Ambassador Mr Pertti Salolainen and other friends of Alvar Aalto’s architecture, aims to save the Viipuri Library – one of Aalto’s greatest works.
Letter from Memphis

I was in Memphis, Tennessee earlier this year to lecture on Charles Rennie Mackintosh and found myself outside the gates of Graceland, the home of Elvis Presley. So, talking about the design icon of Glasgow, Scotland (as one had to…
Titian

National Gallery, London, 19 February-18 May 2003