Category: Articles

  • 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…