Category: Articles

  • Cooking the Books

    The Royal Gold Medal for Architecture was awarded this year to the historic 1970s’ architectural group survivors, led by Professor Peter Cook of the Bartlett School of Architecture, University College, London. However Peter Cook (together with Colin Fournier) has himself…

  • ASHLEY HAVINDEN

    Dean Gallery, Edinburgh 15 October 2003 – 18 January 2004

  • Steven Holl – After Kiasma

    The American architect Steven Holl’s key European debut was the Kiasma Museum of Modern Art, erected with the help of Juhani Pallasmaa opposite the Parliament Building, Helsinki in 2000. But now he, like Peter Cook, has been persuaded to build…

  • FACE UP – Contemporary Art from Australia, Nationalgalerie im Hamburger Bahnhof, Museum for the Present, Berlin

    Nationalgalerie im Hamburger Bahnhof, Museum for the Present, Berlin. 2 October – 4 January 2004

  • FRIEZE ART FAIR

    The first Frieze Art Fair, a major new international art fair, took place in London from 17-20 October 2003. Organised by Matthew Slotover and Amanda Sharp, founders of frieze magazine, it was the first ever international contemporary art fair to…

  • The Seventh Shanghai Art Fair

    The commercial flavour is clear from the moment visitors step into the aptly named Shanghai Mart. This year, they had first to skip the temptations of the National Chocolate and Ice Cream Fair on the building’s ground floor before reaching…

  • Mori Art Museum, Tokyo

    The Mori Art Museum opened in Tokyo this October. It is part of the 11-hectare urban development enterprise, Roppongi Hills, conceived by the property developer Minoru Mori and opened in central Tokyo in April of this year. The unprecedented scale…

  • Giorgio Armani: a retrospective

    Burlington Gardens, The Royal Academy of Arts, London. 18 October 2003 – 15 February 2004

  • Frank Gehry – Walt Disney Concert Hall

    Computer-Aided Three-Dimensional Interactive Application (CATIA) unlocks the magic that enables Frank Gehry’s unique constructions actually to get built. Before computer-aided design, none of this would have been possible. So Gehry’s architecture is essentially of the 21st century

  • Pre-Raphaelite and other Masters: the Andrew Lloyd Webber Collection

    20 September-12 December 2003, Main Galleries, Royal Academy of Arts, London

  • James Rosenquist

    Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York 17 October 2003-25 January 2004

  • Araya Rasdjarmrearnsook

    ‘Tensta Art Gallery, Stockholm, 30 August-26 October 2003.

  • Frank Gehry – Maggie’s Centre, Dundee

    On the western, landscaped edge of Dundee city, overlooking the Tay Estuary, Frank Gehry’s very latest work stands complete. It exists mindful of particular place-related precedent, of shrines or temples from pre-history or early classical periods. But this gem of…

  • Craigie Aitchison

    Jillian and Arthur M. Sackler Wing Royal Academy of Arts, London 9 October–9 November 2003.

  • Paula Rego: Jane Eyre and Other Stories

    Marlborough Fine Art, London. 15 October-22 November 2003.

  • Winifred Nicholson in Scotland

    The Dean Gallery, Edinburgh, 10 July-7 September 2003 Duff House, Banff, 8 November 2003-18 January 2004 An Tuireann, Skye, 24 January-20 March 2004

  • Book review: The Raft of the Medusa: G

    Albert Alhadeff. Munich, Berlin, London, New York: Prestel Publishing 2002. Géricault’s masterpiece will always have more secrets to reveal about itself than any of its Napoleonic companion pieces, even those on a similarly grand scale by David and Delacroix, which…

  • Book review: Figuring it out

    Colin Renfrew. London: Thames & Hudson 2003. ISBN 0500 051143. 224pp, £32.00 In The Shape of Time (1962), George Kubler showed that our knowledge of the distant past relied mainly upon the visible products of man’s industry. In contrast, the…

  • Bridget Riley at Tate Britain

    Tate Britain, 26 June-28 September 2003

  • Blake at Stake

    Bumping into Sir Peter Blake, RA, emerging from Waddingtons in Cork St (his dealer), one was conscious of a sense of deja-vu. With all this religious fervour about, one could have been on the way to visit the Blake ‘Madonna…

  • Thirst for Hirst

    Damien Hirst’s new exhibition ‘Romance in the Age of Uncertainty’ – open until 19 October 2003 at White Cube (London N1) – is undoubtedly drawing the crowds. There is a lot of God around. With religion here goes death, religiously…

  • Killer Icon

    St Petersburg’s Hermitage Museum has confirmed through an official, Boris Sapunov, that the middle section of one of their icons depicting Christ, seemingly painted by an apprentice, has ‘a negative bio-field’. Not just a case of inferior work, apparently, but…

  • Manhattan take two

    Daniel Libeskind’s experiences of Ground Zero since his victory in the competition to redevelop the site earlier this year have shown one thing at least: that none of his competitors could have taken it all the way he has done.…

  • Patrick Procktor: Gone Away

    Patrick is no longer with us. He is irreplaceably gone. A great and noble figure, yet deliberately, unavoidably human. Whether in his beautiful lithographs of the Ganges, or his grand paintings of an unfamiliar, wintry Venice, his works were supremely…