Category: Articles

Fantastical notions and their strange connections

An Aurelian Labyrinth and Other Explications: Paul Etienne Lincoln South London Gallery, London 30 June–18 September 2011
Rudolf Steiner and Contemporary Art and Thinking without limits: Inspired by Rudolf Steiner

DOX Centre for Contemporary Art, Prague 16 June–12 September 2011
Michelangelo Pistoletto: The Mirror of Judgment

Serpentine Gallery, London 12 July–17 September 2011
Radical Bloomsbury: The Art Of Duncan Grant and Vanessa Bell, 1905

Brighton Museum and Art Gallery, Brighton 16 April–9 October 2011
Arctic dreams and climate change. High Arctic: Matt Clark (UVA) and Cape Farewell

National Maritime Museum Greenwich, London 14 July 2011–13 January 2012
Jake or Dinos Chapman

White Cube Mason’s Yard and Hoxton Square 15 July–17 September 2011
Eyewitness: Hungarian Photography in the 20th century

Brassaï, Capa, Kertész, Moholy-Nagy, MunkácsiThe Sackler Wing of Galleries, Royal Academy of Arts, London 30 June–2 October 2011
Frida Kahlo & Diego Rivera

Pallant House Gallery, Chichester 9 July–8 October 2011
The Omnipotent Magician: Lancelot

The cultural significance of Lancelot Brown, the Northumberland-born 18th-century landscape designer, has grown significantly over the past 20 years, in line with the surge of Enlightenment studies in Britain and America, as well as a new awareness of landscape at…
Homage to Michael Spens. The Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, 2011

Royal Academy of Arts, London 7 June—15 August 2011
Peter Zumthor

Serpentine Gallery, Hyde Park, London 1 July–16 October 2011
Royal Academy of Arts Summer Exhibition 2011: Architecture Room

Royal Academy of Arts, London 7 June–15 August 2011
Studies in Form. Roberto Capucci: Art into Fashion

Roberto Capucci: Art into Fashion by Dilys E. Blum (Philadelphia Museum of Art/Yale University Press, 2011)
On Top of Two Empires – Xu Longsen

Museum of Roman Civilization, Rome 22 June–24 July 2011
Georg Baselitz: Between Eagles and Pioneers

White Cube, Mason’s Yard, London 20 May—9 Jul 2011
Alvar Aalto Library In Vyborg: Saving A Modern Masterpiece

The finale to the long-running course of action to save this historic modernist masterpiece did not come through an astronomic bid by a Russian oligarch at auction but through the final award of a very substantial funding from the Russian…
An Entirely Fresh View of Contemporary French Art

French Window: Looking at Contemporary Art Through the Marcel Duchamp Prize Mori Art Museum, Tokyo 26 March–28 August 2011
The Dark Side of Love. Alexander McQueen: Savage Beauty

Alexander McQueen: Savage Beauty Costume Institute, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York 4 May–7 August 2011
Joan Miró: The Ladder of Escape

Tate Modern, London 14 April–11 September 2011
Yang Lian in conversation

Ai Weiwei Lisson Gallery, London, until 16 July Circle of Animals/Zodiac Heads Somerset House, London, until 26 June
James Frazer Stirling

Tate Britain, London 5 April–21 August 2011 Co-organised by the Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montreal and the Yale Center for British Art, New Haven Catalogue: Anthony Vidler, James Frazer Stirling Notes from the Archive1
Rooms With A View: The Open Window in the 19th Century

The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York 5 April–4 July 2011
PINTA, The Latin American Art Fair

Earls Court Exhibition Centre, London 6–9 June 2011
Drummond House, Meigle, Perthshire

The vernacular tradition of rural Britain has preoccupied the majority of builders, clients, architects and planning authorities in rural regions for a decade, just as it had seemed that a “kitsch” or gemutlich, approach had been adopted by compliant stakeholders…