Category: Articles

  • American Sublime: Landscape Painting in the United States 1820-1880

    Tate Gallery, Tate Britain, through 19 May 2002.

  • Cromwell as art enthusiast

    Cromwell as art enthusiast Only thanks to Oliver Cromwell did a very significant proportion of the art collection of King Charles I come to form the basis of the Prado Museum in Madrid. In 1649, with the king beheaded, there…

  • Arne Jacobsen Centenary

    February sees the end of the celebrations marking the 100th anniversary of the birth of the Danish architect and designer, Arne Jacobsen

  • Andy Warhol: A retrospective at Tate Modern

    Tate Modern, through 1 April 2002.

  • The authentic and the twitch: architecture, tourism and simulacrum

    Increasingly, we now seek to verify what is presented as ‘real’: we are wary of ‘simulacrum’ having perhaps enjoyed ‘something having the form or appearance of a certain thing’ or having experienced ‘mere image, a specious imitation or likeness of…

  • Letter from Sydney

    Nick Waterlow The year 2000 in Sydney was a hard act to follow. Every cynic – and there were many in the art world – who fled the Olympics was greeted on their homecoming with adulatory anecdotes, from the Games…

  • The Art of Ken Done

    Janet McKenzie, Sydney: Craftsman House, AU$100/ US$60/GB£50

  • Will Maclean: Driftworks

    Will Maclean’s exhibition, ‘Driftworks’ at Dundee Contemporary Arts is the finest exhibition by a contemporary artist in Scotland that I have seen in the 14 years I have lived there since coming from Australia. It coincides with the publication of…

  • Letter from Shanghai

    Ever since the Treaty of Nangking opened Shanghai to foreign trade in 1842, the city has become a trading centre not to be ignored. The setting up of the International Settlement in 1863 and free-trading concessions opened the way for…

  • Archer art hits Warhol market

    Tate Modern’s Warhol Retrospective