Category: Articles

  • Redrawing Europa

    It wasn’t long before the EU’s new directive allowing Brussels to amend national boundaries, inspired by technocrats in Berlin, was to bear fruit here. There is a new TransManche region, conjoining Kent, East Sussex and a large chunk of Northern…

  • Graffers Grow Across Town

    Graffiti artists play a vital role in humanising the more depressing landscapes of the transportation infrastructure of the M25 bounded metropolis. Surprisingly, they are predominantly white, since to be coloured is to be at risk from police engagement more than…

  • Stones of New Delhi Commemorated

    The renewal of interest in the British architect Sir Edwin Lutyens is now fostered and encouraged by the Lutyens Trust. It recently obtained copies of the ‘Delhi Town Planning Committee Reports’ covering the choice of a site for the new…

  • Oz Triumphant

    Our contributor in New York, Michael Patrick Hearn, has pulled off a masterly exhibition entitled ‘The Wonderful Art of Oz’, which runs until 22 October. There is a full-colour 32-page catalogue of his amazing exhibition, which is at the Eric…

  • Saatchi\’s Return – at the RA

    Charles Saatchi’s new show, ‘USA Today‘, opens at the Royal Academy of Arts, London, on 6 October through 4 November. It shows the work of some 40 artists stateside, as shown in 150 works. It is nine years since the…

  • Venice Architecture Biennale

    Who next to put his, or her hat, into the ring? This year, Ricky Burdett became the second British Director of the Biennale in four years, following Deyan Sudjic. That was a hard act to follow, and secured high ratings…

  • New German Painting – book review

    Christoph Tannert (ed). New German Painting. Munich/Berlin/London/New York: Prestel, 2006 ISBN: 3791336665

  • Aalto Gathering in Finland

    An important event in architectural terms took place this summer in Finland, where the 10th International Alvar Aalto Symposium took place from 28-30 July at Jyvaskyla, Alvar Aalto’s ‘home town’. Symposia have been held here on important topics, both practical…

  • Hilla von Rebay: the Artist Behind the Guggenheim

    Adam Gallery, London 6-25 September 2006 Hilla von Rebay is perhaps best known as Solomon R. Guggenheim’s art adviser and the person who commissioned Frank Lloyd Wright to design the Guggenheim Museum in New York. But the Adam Gallery is…

  • Melbourne Art Fair 2006: A Celebration of Indigenous Art and Beyond

    In August, more than 26,000 visitors flocked to the biennial Melbourne Art Fair, considered by the Australian Arts Council to be among the top three contemporary art events in the Asia Pacific region. Greeting those in attendance to buy art…

  • Leonardo da Vinci: Experience, Experiment, Design

    No major painter in the history of art has a surviving corpus of paintings smaller than that of Leonardo da Vinci. Only a handful of paintings remain, some unfinished, some of disputed attribution, and at least one of the most…

  • Interview: Kim Thomas Reflects On Art, Music, Poetry and Life

    Kim Thomas has been painting, writing poetry and singing for most of her life. Perhaps that is why this warm, funny, energetic woman wears her roles as painter, author and musician so lightly. They come as natural to her as…

  • West Meets East in a DADAdventure

    DADA…born East–Romania Romanian Cultural Institute, New York 9 September-31 October 2006

  • Axel Antas: Nature of Things/Marijke van Warmerdam: First Drop

    Rokeby Gallery, London 5 September-3 October 2006

  • The Draper Touch

    The High Style of Dorothy Draper Museum of the City of New York 2 May-9 October 2006

  • Mimmo Paladino: Black and White

    I don’t want to impose any point of view, any perspective, because I’m also quite fascinated by how others view my work. An outsider’s glance shows me what I don’t already know, what I haven’t as yet seen. It’s a…

  • Pallant House Gallery, Chichester

    Royal Museum of Scotland, Edinburgh 14 July-5 November 2006 ‘Beyond the Palace Walls: Islamic Art from the State Hermitage Museum’ is a very timely collaboration for the Edinburgh Festival 2006 between the Royal Museum in Edinburgh and the State Hermitage…

  • Pallant House Gallery, Chichester

    Pallant House Gallery, which opened on 1 July 2006 in the centre of Chichester, is a dramatic conjunction of old and new – dramatic, that is, internally. From the exterior, as approached from the town, a seamless joining has been…

  • The Paintings of Adam Elsheimer (1578-1610): Devil in the Detail

    National Galleries of Scotland, Edinburgh 23 June-3 September 2006 The miniature paintings of German artist, Adam Elsheimer, are legendary; and yet his work has generally been insufficiently recognised. This was a brilliant religious, figurative and landscape painter whose influence upon…

  • Pierre Huyghe: Celebration Park

    This exhibition is the artist’s first solo show in the UK, and takes place under the aegis of Paris Calling, a season of contemporary French art showing in galleries across London, Oxford and Margate. The exhibition has travelled from Paris,…

  • Amen Emin

    Tracy Emin’s career trajectory continues to rise effortlessly, and all to her credit. Now comes the hot news that she has been selected to represent Britain in the June 2007 Venice Biennale. The last Biennale was notably successful, and the…

  • Annely Juda

    Annely Juda built up on her own judgment and with an exceptional eye, a remarkable art constituency in central London, in Tottenham Mews. In due course she moved to superb, top lit galleries in Dering St. Her special field was…

  • Kirchner Surfaces

  • Poundbury goes to Shanghai

    Thames Town is one of seven satellite communities to become established this year within Shanghai’s expanding orbit, which in total will provide for half a million people in new housing. This is a Chinese version of what an ‘olde English…