Category: Articles
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The Beijing National Stadium – Beijing Olympic Architecture in Retrospect I
The modern day Olympic Games has been more than just a sporting event where thousands of athletes gather in a host country to compete against each other and challenge Man’s limits in becoming “faster, higher and stronger”. With the impact…
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Gormley’s Plinth: One and Other
One & Other Trafalgar Square, London, 6 July – 14 October 2009. Every hour, 24 hours a day for 100 days.Nick Howard’s photos and comments, Trafalgar Square, 7 July 2009.
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Futurism at Tate Modern (Futurismo ma no Futurisme)
Tate Modern, London 12 June–20 September 2009 Catalogue edited by Didier Ottinger (Tate Publishing, London, 2009)
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Artists in the Bush: Land Issues in the Art of GW Bot, Wendy Stavrianos and Helen Geier
Many artists live in rural parts for the ‘silence and contemplation’ that the country affords. But with this year’s appalling bushfires in Victoria, which killed over 200 people, the bush is no longer safe. The work of these women artists…
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Colour Chart: Reinventing Colour, 1950 to Today
Being an artist has often meant being a colourist. The twentieth and twenty-first centuries may have seen a dramatic shift in how we respond to and value colour, early experiments in photography giving a new lease of life to black…
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Garden & Cosmos: The Royal Paintings of Jodphur
British Museum, London, 28 May–23 August 2009 National Museum of India, November 2009
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Uch Emchek or 3M-Check: Central Asia’s First Art Residency Programme
Producer: Tolondu Toichubaev Curator: Gamal Bokonbaev Coordinator: Asel Akhmatova, KuramaART Gallery Key participants of 2008 Launch of Uch Emchek: Talgat Asyryankulov, Shailo Jekshenbaev, Ulan Japarov, Georgii Kolotov, Talant Ogobaev, Valerii Ruppel’, Adis Seitaliev, Ermek Jenish
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Whitechapel rising: the new opening
The Whitechapel Gallery in East London was founded in 1901, Whitechapel itself was at that time a remarkably cosmopolitan part of London, where large numbers of late 19th century immigrants settled, principally Eastern European Jews and Russian political exiles. These…
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Tarkovsky: Russian film-maker – book review
This is a remarkable new compendium on the life and work of the Russian film-maker Andrei Tarkovsky who died early in 1986 of cancer, at the age of 54, in Paris
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Beauty Rendered. The Model as Muse: Embodying Fashion
The Model as Muse: Embodying Fashion Metropolitan Museum of Art 6 May–9 August 2009.
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Victor Majzner, Painting the Torah, 2008
“Without the Torah there would be no Judaism. The Torah makes temporal reality purposeful and the spiritual experience tangible” Victor Majzner (b.1945) published a limited edition book (750 copies), Painting the Torah (2008), to incorporate Jewish experience in to his…
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Klaus Moje: A Love Affair with Glass
Klaus Moje: Painting with Glass Museum of Arts and Design, New York City 29 April–20 September 2009
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Baroque World: Baroque 1620-1800: Style in the Age of Magnificence, V&A, London 2009.
Baroque 1620–1800: Style in the Age of Magnificence Victoria and Albert Museum, London 4 April–19 July 2009.
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The British Council Collection; Passports
Whitechapel Gallery, London 5 April–14 June 2009
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Gerhard Richter Portraits
This is a substantial selection of work, a broadly chronological arrangement from throughout his career, sublimated by Stanton Williams’ sensitive exhibition design into a total experience
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Sickert in Venice. Dulwich Picture Gallery, London. 2009
Dulwich Picture Gallery, London 4 March 2009–7 June 2009
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Designs On at the University of Dundee
The exhibition Designs On at the University of Dundee was conceived as part of the conference V&A at Dundee, which explored the feasibility of building a V&A museum in the Scottish city of Dundee. Designs On showcases some of the…
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Constable Portraits: The Painter and his Circle
This spring the National Portrait Gallery (NPG), armed with a little trowel, unearths lesser-known works from the oeuvre of one of Britain’s greatest landscape painters, John Constable
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Book review: Andrei Tarkovsky: elements of cinema
The film Director Andrei Tarkovsky died at the age of 54 in December l986. This was a tragedy at such a young age and a severe loss to the development of film culture. Considerably younger than the generation of great…
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Rodchenko and Popova: defining constructivism
Tate Modern, London. 12 February–17 May 2009.
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Cildo Meireles: From Sense to Concept
For Brazilian artist Cildo Meireles’s first major exhibition in Europe, Tate Modern created a warehouse-size open space by removing the interior walls of one of its largest display areas in order to showcase some of the largest installations by an…
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Materiality and Memory. An interview with Cildo Meireles
Born in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil in 1948, Cildo Meireles spent most of his adolescence in Brasilia, the modernist Brazilian capital designed by architects Oscar Niemeyer and Lucio Costa. He was there when, in 1960, the ‘new’ Brasilia, a focus…
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Will Alsop: Sharp Center
Sharp Center, Ontario College of Art & Design, Toronto, Canada Will Alsop Opened 25 September 2003
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Damaged Romanticism: A Mirror of Modern Emotion
Damaged Romanticism: A Mirror of Modern Emotion. Grey Art Gallery, New York University, 13 January–4 April 2009. Parrish Art Museum, Southampton, Long Island 7 February–11 April 2009.
