Category: Articles

  • Kaiser Bill still

    Great yawns have greeted the seemingly inevitable decision voted through by the German Parliament, in their Foster-designed high-tech redoubt at the Reichstag, to rebuild the 18th century Baroque palace of the German Emperors. Yawns, since the simulated, temporary pneumatic version…

  • Sweden’s English immigrant returns again

    After Nordgren’s Baltic, it is timely to remember the act of faith in 1960s Newcastle which brought back Ralph Erskine from Sweden in time to prevent the wholesale collapse of the housing community at Byker along the North side of…

  • Braun AG Headquarters, Melsungen, Germany – Masterwork Revisited

    Masterwork Revisited: James Stirling, Michael Wilford & Partners (With Walter Nageli ). Followed by Michael Wilford GmbH Architecture and Landscape United.

  • Callum Innes wins Jerwood Prize

    It has been announced that Callum Innes, a devout minimalist painter whose monochromatic statements of precision and flair, has won the UK’s Jerwood Prize, worth £30,000. Innes, 39, was selected from a mammoth entry of some 1,300 works sent by…

  • The Banksias: Watercolours

    ‘The Banksias: Watercolours’, by Celia Rosser at the State Library of Victoria, Melbourne (5 April—30 June 2002) marks the publication of Volume III of The Banksias by Rosser and Alex George. The publication marks the completion of a 25-year-old project…

  • Mirror, mirror

    No single model of self-portraiture can stand for the experiences of women generally, or fully express the rich interplay that exists between the examination of the reflected image and the exploration of the social dimensions of lived experience, but self-representation…

  • John Bellany milestone

    The Scottish painter John Bellany will reach 60 this June, and there will be shows in Italy (Barga), Los Angeles, the National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh, and Roger Bilcliffe, Glasgow. Not a bad result for a painter who nearly…

  • Obituary: Raymond Durgnat

    Hard to imagine that Ray Durgnat is not still writing and talking. Since his books of film critique still abound, unlike many of the theorists of the l970s whom he so criticised. Films and Feeling (l967) was surely, and still…

  • South Bank hopes raised

    The appointment of the former chief executive of the Sydney Opera House, Michael Lynch, 51, to take over the running of London’s quaking South Bank Centre is a brilliant move, even for a glutton for punishment. However, Lynch has all…

  • The Turner to go international?

    The welcome announcement that the Booker Prize will from 2004 be awardable to American writers has already sent a shiver through the bookmakers stalls that line Tate Britain. Kazuo Ishiguro, Salman Rushdie, Ian McEwan, David Storey, Ben Okri all support…