Category: Articles

  • Philosopher and colleague of Ludwig Wittgenstein dies: GH von Wright (d. 16 June 2003)

    Philosopher and colleague of Ludwig Wittgenstein dies: GH von Wright (d. 16 June 2003)

  • Mario Testino: Portraits

    Dean Gallery, Edinburgh, 16 April-15 June 2003.

  • Outsider Art comes Full Circle – ‘John the Painter’

    Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, 12 February–8 June 2003.

  • John Piper in the 1930s – Abstraction on the Beach

    John Piper in the 1930s – Abstraction on the Beach

  • Designer of the Year

    Design Museum, London, 1 March—29 June 2003.

  • Masterpieces from Dresden

    Sackler Galleries, Royal Academy, London, 15 March-8 June 2003.

  • Titian

    National Gallery, London, 19 February-18 May 2003

  • Letter from Memphis

    I was in Memphis, Tennessee earlier this year to lecture on Charles Rennie Mackintosh and found myself outside the gates of Graceland, the home of Elvis Presley. So, talking about the design icon of Glasgow, Scotland (as one had to…

  • Norman Foster to chair Alvar Aalto Committee Charitable Trust

    The Charitable Trust, launched by Lord Foster, Finnish Ambassador Mr Pertti Salolainen and other friends of Alvar Aalto’s architecture, aims to save the Viipuri Library – one of Aalto’s greatest works.

  • Guy Bourdin at the V&A. Fashion photography as art

    In the 1970s, fashion seemed to be at its lowest ebb. The 60s, when London was the style capital of the world, had passed; yet to come were the 80s and 90s when fashion would replace radical politics and rock…

  • Obituary: Joanna Drew

    Obituary: Joanna Drew Joanna Drew, a major and formative influence on British Art from the 1970s onwards died on 20 April 2003, aged 73. She became Director of Exhibitions at the Arts Council of Great Britain in 1975, having first…

  • Amber enigma

    The St Petersburg Amber Room has been remade after almost 25 years of patient restoration. Originally a gift in 1716 from King Frederick-William I of Prussia to Peter the Great, Second World War German forces shipped off 27 panels to…

  • Art eclipsed

    The Reverend Julian Spalding, maverick commentator on the decline of British Art, has published his diatribe ‘The Eclipse of Art: Tackling the Crisis in Art Today’. Crisis? Art? Spalding deserves the Chapman treatment of superimposed clowning. But where, indeed, is…

  • Chapmans again

    The ‘Rape of Goya’ might be called a curatorial wheeze. In the commodification of bad taste, this peculiar show must take the prix. However, certain elements of this apparent despoliation of Goya, by damaging posthumous etchings of the master in…

  • Clifford\’s travels

    Sir Timothy Clifford has no difficulty these days in turning up important works that other curators and directors do not know to be under their noses. News that Sir Tim, while flicking through the bundles in the Uffizi Gallery, Florence,…

  • Enron collection flogged off

  • London Review of Books — Shop, Bury Place, London, WC1

    LRB has actually opened its own shop, in an amazing display of commercial acumen. First Agatha went, from Duke Street, St James’s, then Zwemmer closed in late April. The niche that was the old LRB office is now a newer…

  • Mesopotamia

    Everything moves so fast in Iraq. It’s no longer a question of ‘shock and awe’, more one of the disappearing museum inventory. In the cradle of world civilisation, the great collection of antiquities has seen looting and pillaging on a…

  • Piper\’s tune

    At Dulwich Picture Gallery, the late John Piper’s 1930s works are on show in ‘Abstraction on the Beach’, through to 22 June 2003. This show helps to reposition Piper’s important role in the development of British Modernism, and to demonstrate…

  • Saatchi googol

    A crowd for the opening: Of 100 metres that Monday, 21,000, most visitors paying 8.50, filing past the Damien Hurst version Mini, nodding catnaps en route with Duane Hanson’s Traveller. The Tate Modern was hardly struggling with 100,000 visitors predictably…

  • How world cultures were united

    This summer, the British Museum celebrates a quarter of a millennium of history, with a special exhibition in the Joseph Hotung Gallery of the Great Court. The exhibition is something of a curatorial squeeze, and deals with the interaction of…

  • Max Beckmann

    Centre Pompidou, Paris. 11 September 2002-6 January 2003. Tate Modern, London. 13 February-5 May 2003. MoMA QNS, New York. 26 June-29 September 2003.

  • Agnelli collection goes to final home

    Before his death from cancer earlier this year at the age of 81, Gianni Agnelli had seen to fruition the donation of his collection for permanent display in Turin. The venue is a 13 million building by Renzo Piano. The…

  • Closing in — comme ça, comme çi…

    Not Charles Saatchi but Frank Cohen – Who? Frank Cohen is, in fact, the major North of England collector who may yet rival Saatchi. Cohen owns works by Tracey Emin, Damien Hirst, and the painter Gary Hume, mostly lodged in…