Category: Articles

  • Un aventura again?

    The most famous air disaster of the month occurred in Milan where a private pilot flew into the Pirelli Building, the world-famous 32-storey tower designed by the late Italian master architect Gio Ponti. Ironically, 3 May sees the opening of…

  • News from the Royal Academy

    The Royal Academy, London, is much in the news. First of all, esteemed chairperson Sir Anthony Tennant has been under pressure to ‘do the gentlemanly thing’ and tender his resignation following his involvement in the New York auction scam which…

  • Coughs and sneezes after Amsterdam

    Van Gogh/Gauguin at Van Gogh Museum through June 2

  • Hirst afforestation

    In a studio in the Cotswolds, close to Stroud, a megawork is gestating. A massive cube of empty carbon dioxide canisters is being put together. Damien Hirst has chosen to represent his personal emission of the gas. The completed work…

  • National Gallery London coup

    The National Gallery’s everlasting ‘Treasure’, Neil MacGregor, will now save the British Library, where he moves shortly following his appointment after a long and successful term, outstanding for its combination of scholarship and intelligent financial acumen, untrammelled by the populist…

  • Palazzo Ceausescu

  • A pelican in the wilderness – book review

    A short review does not do justice to this splendid publication by novelist Isabel Colegate, published to coincide with the exhibition ‘A pelican in the wilderness: hermits and solitude in art’ at the Holborne Museum of Art in Bath (16…

  • Return of the Buddha: The Qingzhou Discoveries

    Return of the Buddha: The Qingzhou Discoveries

  • Peter Doig 100 years ago

    Victoria Miro Gallery, London 13 April – 22 May 2002

  • Ken Kiff – book review

    Ken Kiff (1935–2001): Retrospective. Marlborough Fine Art Gallery, London.