Category: Articles

  • Miró at Christie’s

    The sale of Miró’s ‘Caress of the Stars’ on Wednesday 3 November 2004 in New York, for close to $10 million, suggests that the art market is still robust when it comes to works of the highest quality. This was…

  • MoMA New York Reopens

    The Japanese architect, Yoshio Taniguchi’s $425 million reconstruction of New York’s Museum of Modern Art, comprises the largest museum opening of the 21st century and encompasses 630,000 square feet on six floors. Taniguchi has previously designed a number of museums,…

  • Turner Prize Show

    At the Turner Prize, controversy is the name of the game. In fact, this year’s Frieze Art Fair in London supplied all that, but was commercially successful, as well as being a remarkable feat of organisation. All the punters were…

  • The First Architectural Biennale Beijing 2004

    It would not be an exaggeration to claim that the 21st century belongs to Asia – if not to China alone. Deng’s reopening of doors and the economic reform of the 1980s and 1990s paved the way for a resurgence…

  • Bruce Nauman: Raw Materials

    Tate Modern, London 12 October-28 March 2005

  • Museum Building Boom

    For London, the recently announced plans for a new Wellcome museum-cum-gallery, inside the new Wellcome headquarters, will add a public museum, art gallery and library to the capital’s resources. The Wellcome Institute too will reveal its own collection of medical…

  • Museum Tails

    Edinburgh has pulled it off again. The National Gallery on the Mound is not only hosting the outstanding Titian exhibition, but it has also supplied an appropriate Venetian ambience – the unmistakable smell of sewage, combined with various aromas from…

  • Christopher Dresser 1834-1904: A Design Revolution

    Victoria and Albert Museum, London 9 September-5 December 2004

  • The Blue Man: The Portrait of James Milliken by Jean-Etienne Liotard, c.1762.

    Jean-Etienne Liotard (1702-89) was one of the finest portraitists of the eighteenth century. The recently discovered portrait of the son of Scottish landowner, James Milliken of Milliken was probably painted in the early 1760s when James was on the Grand…

  • The National Museum of the American Indian

    Almost 500 years after the “discovery” of America, at last the original inhabitants are being recognized with a new edifice on the Mall of the United States capital. On September 21, 2004 the National Museum of the American Indian opened…

  • Yoshitomo Nara: From the Depth of my Drawer

    Hara Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo

  • Past Things and Present: Jasper Johns since 1983

    Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh 13 July-19 September 2004

  • Russian Landscape in the Age of Tolstoy

    The National Gallery, London 23 June-12 September 2004

  • Bill Brandt: A Centenary Retrospective

    Victoria and Albert Museum, London 24 March-25 July 2004

  • Royal Academy Summer Exhibition 2004

    Royal Academy of Arts, London 8 June-16 August 2004

  • Jacques Henri Lartigue

    Hayward Gallery, London 24 June-5 September 2004

  • Inventing Race: Casta Painting and Eighteenth Century Mexico

    La invención del mestizaje: La pintura de castas y el siglo XVIII en México Los Angeles County Museum of Art, LA 4 April-8 August 2004

  • Art of the Americas: Latin America and the United States, 1800 to Now!

    Art of the Americas: Latin America and the United States, 1800 to Now!

  • Obituary: Lionel Brett (4th Viscount Esher)

    Obituary: Lionel Brett (4th Viscount Esher) Lionel Gordon Baliol Brett, who died on 9 July 2004, aged 90, was an influential architect and town planner in the transitional years following the Second World War, and again in the 1970s. His…

  • Edward Hopper

    Tate Modern, London 27 May-5 September 2004

  • Elsa Schiaparelli

    Elsa Schiaparelli, the flamboyant fashion designer of the Art Deco period, is renowned for her fabulous eccentricity and innovation. She changed fashion and people’s attitudes to it with her scandalous dresses and colourful personality.

  • Swiss Re, a lovable gherkin in space

    ‘If you seek his monument, look around’ – such was the epithet chosen by his son, for Sir Christopher Wren, the architect of St Paul’s Cathedral and so much else in 17th century England.

  • Jellicoe to Jencks: New landscapes, new allegories.

    Two highly significant but very different landscape and garden theorists are Sir Geoffrey Jellicoe (1900-1996) and Charles Jencks (b. 1939). Geoffrey Jellicoe died in 1995, after 75 years of creativity world-renowned and admired as one of the key architects in…

  • The enigma of Édouard Vuillard

    Vuillard: From post-impressionist to modern master Royal Academy, London 31 January-18 April 2004