Category: Articles

  • Tate Supermodern

    The famous super-architects Herzog and de Meuron have evolved a different aesthetic for their newly-accepted proposals for the gallery extension. Signature architecture is not really in it, since the building design appears to have nothing to link it stylistically to…

  • Poets in the Landscape: The Romantic Spirit in British Art

    Pallant House Gallery, Chichester 31 March-10 June 2007

  • Italian Paintings and Drawings: The Royal Collection

    The Queen’s Gallery, Buckingham Palace, London 30 March 2007-20 January 2008

  • Sol LeWitt: the Mystic Conceptualist

    Sol LeWitt was a major leader of Conceptual art, which was initially called Minimalism. Critic Barbara Reise contributed a seminal article to Studio International, clarifying that LeWitt was a Conceptualist, which he stated himself. The death of the renowned artist…

  • Camouflage

    Imperial War Museum, London 23 March-18 November 2007

  • Jean Baudrillard: Vraisemblablement Mort?

    Jean Baudrillard, the renowned French philosopher, passed away in March 2007. Baudrillard was something of a maverick but in time came to be revered on both sides of the Atlantic. On 6 March 2007, the renowned French sociologist and philosopher…

  • Andy Goldsworthy: Four Indoor Galleries and Open Air

    Yorkshire Sculpture Park, Wakefield 31 March 2007 – 6 January 2008

  • Shifting Identities

    Aernout Mik, Camden Arts Centre, London 16 February – 15 April 2007

  • The Deformation Man: David Lynch’s Chimerical Universe of Metamorphosis

    Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain, Paris 3 March–27 May 2007

  • New Life Beginning

    The Fine Art Society in London employed the Scottish collector James McIntosh Patrick for 50 years at their New Bond Street premises. His collection is now expected to be sold in June for around £2.5 million. It includes items by…

  • Rothko Rising

  • Contaminated Waste Transferred

    The assumption by building workers that Anish Kapoor’s 1984 work, “Hole and Vessel II” was rubbish fit only for the skip sent tremors through the London art world and argument among the workers themselves is even more confused now. What…

  • Performance and Play

    Absent without Leave, Victoria Miro Gallery, London 17 February–17 March 2007

  • Apocalypse in Pink: The Work of Irene Barberis.

    The role of faith in society and in art, has been addressed in numerous forms since the new millennium, yet it is by definition problematic. In “Writing the Silence: A Taxonomy of Memory”, Louise Adler writes:

  • Contemporary Artists Embrace a ‘Radical’ Tradition

    Museum of Arts & Design, New York 25 January–17 June 2007

  • Libeskind impacting Denver

    What the Denver citizenry got then, in their quest for an international profile, was not the hoped-for clone of the Pirelli building designed just previously by Ponti (1956) for Milan, but something altogether different, a contextual work.

  • A Secret Service: Art, Compulsion, Concealment

    Kurt Schwitters’ experimental practice ranged across sound poetry, drama, collage, typography, publishing and sculpture. When he died in exile in the Lake District in 1948, he was working on the last incarnation of his most mysterious yet compelling works, his…

  • Documenting the Obvious: Picasso and American Art

    Whitney Museum of American Art, New York 28 September 2006–28 January 2007

  • Alvar Aalto: Through the Eyes of Shigeru Ban

    Barbican Art Gallery, Barbican Centre, London 22 February-13 May 2007 A retrospective exhibition of the architecture of Alvar Aalto in central London is extremely timely. It is now almost ten years since the major exhibition was organised in New York…

  • Home and Garden: Paintings and Drawings of English Middle Class Urban Domestic Space 1914 to the present

    Geffrye Museum, London 20 February-24 June 2007

  • DNA Hiccup

    In the past two decades, remarkable scientific progress has been made by exploring and, to a degree, cracking the universal genetic codes of the human race. Ironically now, two African countries have been confident enough to track those emigrants whom…

  • Constant Gardiner

    The much-admired British architect and critic/historian Stephen Gardiner has died in England, aged 82. Gardiner became chiefly known as a domestic architect, with a special appeal to private clients. For example, in order to achieve improvement and commodity for the…

  • New Shanty

    Two key individuals originating from the Netherlands have jointly initiated the formation of an open-air art gallery in the Vila Cruzeiro shantytown edging Rio de Janeiro. Jeroen Koolhass, the Dutch illustrator who works for the New Yorker magazine and the…

  • The Possibilities of Paint: An Interview with John Zinsser by Cindi Di Marzo

    For John Zinsser, painting and paint are more than a process and medium; they are his subjects. During his career, Zinsser has remained committed to the possibilities of painting and abstraction, while the contemporary art market moves from one trend…