Category: Articles

  • Cloning Libeskind

    Daniel Libeskind is no stranger to Australia and has visited Melbourne. It was something of a surprise to learn that, such was his following, the competition-winning team of Ashton Raggatt McDougal have deployed identifiably Libeskind architecture in the section of…

  • Settecento in Lille

    Lille is suddenly not terminus but interchange: in bold on the travelmap, gratis Rem Koolhas, the doyen of Euro-architects. The dramatic new interchange complex now allows us to stop, or ‘alight here’ as genteel Britrail signs used to read. The…

  • Tate Liverpool

    Christoph Grunenberg is the new director, and has been there barely a month. He confronts a major challenge, coming at a time when the city museums are reeling from the tragic death of Liverpool’s Director of Museums and Galleries, Sir…

  • Tate Modern manoeuvres

    Tate Modern, still puzzled by the mixed reception of its current blockbuster, Century City, is spinning hard on the permanent collection and its popularity with ‘ordinary citizens’. Sometimes Tate Britain benefits from the spin-off. Stanley Spencer’s ‘Double Nude Portrait: the…

  • Brassai in Paris, Hayward Gallery, 2001

    BRASSAI IN PARIS, Hayward Gallery London SE1 through May 13

  • Goya, Hayward Gallery, 2001

    GOYA, Hayward Gallery , London SE1 through 13 May.

  • Julian Opie at Lisson Gallery, Michael Landy at C&A

    JULIAN OPIE, LISSON GALLERY, LONDON NW1 through 17 March

  • Ken Kiff: obituary

    The world of the imagination, like that of the dream has attracted many twentieth century artists, for it is a realm of experience unspoiled by logic or categorisation. Ken Kiff’s work displayed the innocence, candour and privacy of such a…

  • Century City at Tate Modern

    Genesis; Exhibitions past – Paris, Vienna, Edinburgh

  • Century city

    The mediocrity of this Tate Modern extravaganza was traumatic. Even if it had happened now, and been amended to incorporate the revision of New York City, and given some contemporary relevance, it could never have been saved. Sometimes blockbusters sink…