Category: Articles

Carlos Amorales: La Lange des Morts

Yvon Lambert Gallery, Paris 2–31 March 2012
Alvar Aalto and the Sustainable Nordic House

Sitting exposed amongst elf-inhabited marshlands in the centre of Reykjavik (according to the Icelandic), the Nordic House epitomises simple Nordic pride. The building is smaller than expected, buried into the man-made marsh rather than dominating it, and designed proudly to…
The Armory Show: A Personal View

Piers 92 & 94, New York 8-11 March 2012
A Casual and Purposeful Art. The Radical Camera: New York

The Radical Camera: New York’s Photo League, 1936–1951
Late Modern or Postmodern? New Architecture by Trevor Dannatt

It happens that distinguished practitioners do reach advanced years almost by stealth. And if then documentation has any purpose, quite apart from society’s “honoraria”, it remains the responsibility of key journals to address such cases. This private house has been…
Mary Heilmann: Visions, Waves, and Roads

Hauser & Wirth, London 23 February–5 April 2012
Lucian Freud Portraits

I sometimes leave exhibitions with a sense of anti-climax: expectations are often unfulfilled or disappointed. One might even feel a diminished assessment of the artist. Against that background of experience, I can only say that the current exhibition of Lucian…
Boris Mikhailov: Triptychs

Boris Mikhailov’s solo exhibition at the Sprovieri Gallery, London includes a diverse selection of works from ten different series, spanning a period of 50 years. For such a prolific photographer, this show offers only a “snapshot” of his entire oeuvre,…
Danser sa vie

The Pompidou Centre, Paris 23 November 2011–2 April 2012
David Hockney: A Bigger Picture

The Royal Academy of Arts, London 21 January–9 April 2012
One Giant Leap

Hyatt Regency London – The Churchill from 1 February 2012 and Limited Edition Saatchi Gallery Suite Hyatt Regency London – The Churchill 1 February–30 April 2012
A Walk Down One Fashion Magazine

Nostalgia in Vogue: 2000-2010 Edited by Eve MacSweeney (Rizzoli, 2011)
Cézanne and Paris

Musée du Luxembourg, Paris 12 October 2011 – 26 February 2012
Masters of Venice: Renaissance Painters of Passion and Power from the Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna

The de Young Museum, San Francisco 29 October 2011–12 February 2012
Lygia Pape – Magnetized Space

The artist Lygia Pape (1927–2004) once said that her primary interest, when she embarked upon a career in the arts in the early 1950s, was to create a relationship between space and structure using the minimum of visual elements possible.…
Pacific Standard Time: Crosscurrents in L.A. Painting and Sculpture 1950-1970

J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles 1 October 2011–5 February 2012
Building The Revolution: Soviet Art and Architecture 1915-1935

Sackler Wing of Galleries, Royal Academy of Arts, London 29 October 2011–22 January 2012
Youth and Beauty: Art of the American Twenties

Brooklyn Museum 28 October 2011–29 January 2012
Edvard Munch, L’oeil moderne

Centre Pompidou, Paris 21 September 2011–23 January 2012
Claude Lorrain: The Enchanted Landscape

Ashmolean Museum, Oxford 6 Oct 2011–8 January 2012
Pipilotti Rist – Eyeball Massage

Hayward Gallery, London 28 September 2011–8 January 2012
Giorgio Vasari: Dessins du Louvre

Musée du Louvre, Paris 10 November 2011–6 February 2012
Can Architects Draw? Architects Sketchbooks

Architects’ Sketchbooks Edited by Will Jones Thames & Hudson, London & New York, 2011
Translating a Spiritual Legacy. Chanel: The Vocabulary of Style

Chanel: The Vocabulary of Style Jérôme Gautier Thames & Hudson in the UK/Yale University Press in the US and Canada, 2011