Category: Articles
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Book review: MJ Long, Artists’ Studios
This book is something of a rarity today. It comes as a survey of the design of 14 ‘studios’, all for artists, plus one famous watering hole, the Ivy Restaurant in London, by the architect MJ Long. She is the…
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Abstract America: New Painting and Sculpture
The Saatchi Gallery, London 29 May 2009–17 January 2010
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Grayson Perry: The Walthamstow Tapestry
After more than 20 years making pots Grayson Perry admits to no longer being the naïve craftsmen he once seemed. Winning the 2003 Turner prize and gaining a high degree of public status also seemed to remove any claims to…
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Ed Ruscha: Fifty Years of Painting
Ed Ruscha’s oeuvre has been canonised as the output of a modern American master, but it shrugs off the labels that usually accompany such elevation: certain works or sequences are aligned with pop or conceptual art, but the majority resist…
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Making Art in Paradise. Serizawa: Master of Japanese Textile Design
Serizawa: Master of Japanese Textile Design Japan Society, New York 9 October 2009–17 January 2010
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The Not-So-Secret Language of Pins
Read My Pins: Stories from a Diplomat’s Jewel Box Museum of Arts and Design, New York 30 September 2009–31 January 2010
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Eduardo Paolozzi: The Jet Age Compendium
Raven Row, London 4 September–1 November 2009
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Book review: An Outline of European Architecture by Nikolaus Pevsner
In this new and updated edition, the current publishers have produced a well-timed development of this classic work which first appeared in 1943 as a Pelican Paperback. The first line of the author’s Introduction was the famous, but now outdated…
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Book review: Trevor Dannatt: Works and Words
Roger Stonehouse has wisely given vent to that additional talent, which reveals Dannatt’s inherent literacy, in a special supplement at the end of the book. Editions of the Architects Year Book of the 1960s wholly captured the vision and intrigue…
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American Idyll – Jenny Watson
Galerie Transit, Brussels 6 September –11 October 2009
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They Called Me Mayer July: Painted Memories of a Jewish Childhood in Poland Before the Holocaust
They Called Me Mayer July: Painted Memories of a Jewish Childhood in Poland Before the Holocaust The Jewish Museum, New York City 10 May–1 October 2009
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Rosalind Nashashibi at the ICA
This exhibition sees a return to the ICA for Nashashibi, the first female artist to win their Beck’s Futures prize back in 2003. Since that date her work has undergone what seems to be a significant shift in direction, something…
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The Enlightenments. Edinburgh International Festival 2009
Edinburgh International Festival 7 August–27 September 2009
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Patrick Tjungurrayi and Warlimpirrnga Tjapaltjarri
Scott Livesey Galleries, Armadale, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. 1–25 July 2009. by Dr JANET McKENZIE Since 1999 Scott Livesey Galleries has mounted an annual exhibition of work from Aboriginal communities, accompanied by a fully illustrated catalogue. As a tenth anniversary, the…
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Book review: One Thousand Drawings by Tracey Emin
Rizzoli International Publications New York, 2009
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Isabel Toledo: Fashion from the Inside Out – book review
On Inauguration Day, First Lady Michelle Obama made a radical break from tradition, forsaking the typical red or blue ensembles favored by her predecessors. Instead, she wore a golden yellow wool lace coat and dress designed by Isabel Toledo. The…
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Raphael to Renoir
National Galleries of Scotland, Edinburgh 5 June–6 July 2009
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Book review: The Woodblock Painting of Cressida Campbell
The Woodblock Painting of Cressida Campbell
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The Discovery of Spain. British Artists and Collectors: Goya to Picasso
National Galleries of Scotland, Edinburgh 18 July–11 October 2009
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Radical Nature: Art and Architecture for a Changing Planet 1969-2009
Barbican Art Gallery, London 19 June–18 October 2009
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Beyond Bloomsbury: Designs of the Omega Workshops, 1913–19
Courtauld Gallery, Somerset House, London 18 June–20 September 2009
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Luis Barragan: Il Poeta Del Silenzio
“Architecture is frozen music. The more you reduce the more perfect the notes must be.” Bruce Chatwin
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Classified: Contemporary Art at Tate Britain
Classified, a new collection display at Tate Britain, draws on the Tate’s own collection of contemporary work to disrupt and delight in a similar manner to Borges’s encyclopaedia
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The Beijing National Aquatics Centre
Situated on the western side of the extended axis along the Olympic Green and directly fronting the National Stadium (aka ‘Bird Nest) is the National Aquatics Centre. As the name suggest, it has been the venue for holding swimming, diving…
