Category: Articles

  • Quangos Vanish

    The Arts Council of England will appoint regional officers to replace the ten regional arts boards. Chairman Gerry Robinson’s efforts to replace the regional boards have met with sheer opposition from the supposedly ‘autonomous’ quangoids. Local authorities are to have…

  • Riven Tate

    Industrial action at Tate Modern? It seems a contradiction in terms. How can the great emporium dedicated to displaying the promise of a better world be riven with strikes? The Institution of Professionals, Managers, and Specialists no less, is representing…

  • Rogers’ Vicissitudes

    It was announced in early July that the Welsh Assembly did not wish to proceed with Lord Rogers’ design for the new Assembly. Meanwhile, the Greater London Authority’s ‘City Hall’ building by Rogers’ contemporary and former partner, Lord (Norman) Foster,…

  • David Sylvester

    The death of the author, historian and critic David Sylvester on l9 June, aged 76, has now robbed the world of a leading expert on Francis Bacon — his parents had been Russian-Jewish silver experts and dealers — whilst Rene…

  • Royal Academy Charles Wollaston Prize (£25,000)

    Royal Academy Charles Wollaston Prize (25,000)

  • Berlin embraces the sublime

    About the Sublime: Mark Rothko, Yves Klein, James Turrell, Deutsche Guggenheim Museum, 7 July through 7 October 2001

  • Brueghel at Rotterdam

    Pieter Brueghel the Elder, Master Draughtsman at the Museum Beijmans van Beuningen. Brueghel at Rotterdam, through 5 August (then Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York 25 September – 2 December 2001).

  • Finnish Design Exhibition in London

    ‘Departures’ at Vessel, 114 Kensington Park Road, London W 11. 27 June —31 August

  • London comment: e-letter from London

    The sudden departure of Chief Curator Lars Nittve from the Tate Modern in July suggested that all was not well at the great terminus of modern art, following the Century City extravaganza which so dismayed the critics. The sackcloth and…

  • Paris comment: e-letter from Paris

    Paris comment: e-letter from Paris Art Populaire, Liza Lou’s Back Yard

  • Giorgio Morandi

    Tate Modern, London, through 12 August 2001.

  • Arte Povera at Tate Modern

    Arte Povera Tate Modern, through 19 August 2001.

  • Silence of the Limbs

    Körperwelten Exhibition, Berlin through 2 September, Brussels from 22 September

  • Rembrandt’s Women

    A curiously gauche title this, for a great coup of an exhibition

  • David Mach

    On Saturday 4 June, David Mach ignited a matchstick-constructed head of Robert Louis Stevenson, an event which may have not been appropriate say, for the Venice Biennale, but given Mach’s international repute was all the more effective in Edinburgh. Now…

  • Holocaust Memory

    Through 28 August, the Imperial War Museum, London, is showing the exhibition ‘Legacies of Silence: The Visual Arts and Holocaust Memory’. Curated by Glenn Pujo, it includes the works of some 46 Nazi concentration camp victims, 35 of whom were…

  • RIBA in Ecstasy: British Architectural Awards 2001

    Ecstasy and fatigue, according to neuro-psychologist Richard Gregory, go together. ‘Ecstatic states of mastery over, or of oneness with, all things, are to be treasured, but they can lead to overconfidence, say while climbing a mountain, or piloting an aircraft’.…

  • Patrick Heron: the growing legacy of genius

    ‘The work of Patrick Heron is bound up with what is probably the most crucial series of events in British art since the war: the impact of the new American painting, the absorption of its influence and, eventually, a reaction…

  • Covent Garden Futures c.1730–l875

    If the splatter of decadence seems original at the ICA, take a look back at Creative Quarters, at the Museum of London – where Augustus Egg, painter of the Past and Present I, II and III series in Tate Britain,…

  • Tracey Emin: rising star

    At last Tracey Emin is being recognised as the long-term, serious and committed artist that she undoubtedly has been, with a tried-and-tested Camusian philosophy born of hard experience and free of middle-class posturing. So, she entraps voyeurs, masochists, egocentrists, bureaucrats,…

  • Galaxy UK

    A little publicised coming-together of British national and regional museums and galleries is emerging as a major line-up of talent for the next autumn and winter seasons. The National Portrait Gallery in London will offer ‘Painted Ladies’, revealing the portraits…

  • Libeskind advances

    Daniel Libeskind has, despite delays over the brilliant spiral proposals for the Victoria and Albert Museum, been moving forward during the long preliminary. First the Felix Nussbaum Haus in Osnabruck, then the meteoric Jewish Museum in Berlin. Now approaching completion…

  • Cloning Libeskind

    Daniel Libeskind is no stranger to Australia and has visited Melbourne. It was something of a surprise to learn that, such was his following, the competition-winning team of Ashton Raggatt McDougal have deployed identifiably Libeskind architecture in the section of…

  • Settecento in Lille

    Lille is suddenly not terminus but interchange: in bold on the travelmap, gratis Rem Koolhas, the doyen of Euro-architects. The dramatic new interchange complex now allows us to stop, or ‘alight here’ as genteel Britrail signs used to read. The…