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Interview: Independent curator and author Kohle Yohannan on ‘the legend of Valentina’

An interview with independent curator and author Kohle Yohannan on ‘the legend of Valentina’
Book review: Modernist Malta: The Architectural Legacy

Ed Alberto, Mieli-Farrugia, Petra Bianchi Published by Kamra tal-Periti, Malta 2009
Rewinding personalities: Van Dyck at Tate Britain

The short journey from the British Museum down to Tate Britain is currently a rewarding trip. The British Museum gives us, with the exhibition dedicated to Shah Abbas, the early 17th century unifier of Iran, a clear comparison as to…
Book review: Young Chinese Artists: The Next Generation

Editors: Christoph Noe, Xenia Piech, Cordelia Steiner Prestel Verlag/Munich 2008
V&A at Dundee: Making it Happen

University of Dundee 24-25 February 2009
Carlo Cardazzo – a new vision for art

1 November 2008 – 1 March 2009 Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice
Photography: Olivier Richon | Anima(l)

16 January–22 February 2009 Ibid Projects, London
Book review: Projects in China: Architects Von Gerkan Marg and Partners

Edited by Meinhard von Gerkan Published by Prestel. Munich/Berlin/London/New York. March 2008
Review: Andrea Palladio: His Life and Legacy

It is significant that this exhibition at the Royal Academy in London originated in Vicenza (Palazzo Barbaran, through 6 January 2009) and has now come to London. The Palazzo was an important work of Palladio, lying close to the historic…
Book review: The Truth about Babylon: Babylon Myth and Reality

British Museum, 13 Nov 2008–15 March 2009 Book/Catalogue published by The British Museum Press. By IL Finkel and MJ Seymour. London 2008
Book review: New Orleans 1867. Photographs by Theodore Lilienthal

Gary A. Van Zante Merrell Publishers Ltd, London and New York 2008
Book review: John Wolseley: Landmarks II

Professor Sasha Grishin Craftsman House, (a division of Thames & Hudson) Melbourne, Australia 2008
Book review: California Video: Artists and Histories

The Getty Research Institute and the J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, 2008. Edited by Glenn Phillips
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Real affordable housing, sixty years on

Scant homage has been played – by architects and developers – to the so-called affordable housing, of the post-war prefab estates. One of these is poised today to get Grade II Listing. These single storey units were only intended to…
One for Boris to scupper

Saatchi’s new gallery, a subtle re-use of the old Duke of York’s Barracks bordering the Eastern end of the King’s Road, augurs well for his purpose. But sadly, close by along the Chelsea Bridge Road, then Ranelagh Gardens and Chelsea…
EU Babel

The European Unions much-vaunted project for a massive electronic Bibliotheque, entitled Europeana, is what the Commissions leader Jose Manuel Barroso calls a Renaissance Moment. Can Europe really outdo existing market search engines in the arts field`? Certainly, as reported on…
Evicting art and philosophy

The famous Roerich Museum in Moscow (dedicated to the 19th century life and philosophy of Nicholas Roerich) and opened in 1990 has been snatched, it seems, by the Federal Property Management Agency, unheeded by President Medvedev .It seems the state…
Falling towers

Lord Foster has been pipped at the post, by architect, and rival Jean Nouvel in Paris, to build the so-called Signal Tower in La Defense in Paris. Fosters 974 ft tower was beaten by Nouvel’s 990 ft version. Foster’s further…
A highway to India

EM Forster could never have anticipated in his lifetime the contemporary regeneration of Indian culture, from literature, to Bollywood, to contemporary arts. At the Serpentine Gallery there is a revelation about the visual arts surge, but unfortunately the poor Serpentine…
The Saint of Museum St: Neil MacGregor

Neil MacGregor has, in 2008 brought to a climax his immediate series of historical exhibitions at the British Museum. The Babylon exhibition now current there is masterly, highly relevant to contemporary culture and politics, and very much the creation of…
Paris rising

The culture of Paris has never lacked dynamism, but has occasionally fallen back. However now the new Cite de la Mode et du Design close by the Gare d’Austerlitz designed by architects Jakob Macfarlane has made as big an impact…
Come back, Roger Hilton: a bas, Dumas!

Come back, Roger Hilton: à bas, Dumas!
Mark Rothko: The Retrospective

Hamburger Kunsthalle Museum 16 May–14 September 2008