Category: Articles

  • 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.