Book review: Heterotopic visions
Increasingly, contemporary artists, as much as architects and urban planners, have to grope for a cl...
Book review: Marvellous Melbourne
This important city monograph was first published over a year ago, but it is exemplary within the 'W...
Breaking the Rules - The Printed Face of the European Avant Garde 1900-1937
Based on the British Library's huge collection of manuscripts, sound recordings and all manner of th...
Colin St John Wilson: Buildings and Projects
Roger Stonehouse was the chosen author for this extensive monograph, which forms a catalogue raisonn...
Book review: Archaeology of an Urban Desert
Jon Naar is a British photographer who has been based in New York. In 1974 he joined up with the lat...
Age of Transparency and Innocence: the Changing Face of Childhood
The excellent exhibition The Changing Face of Childhood, the product of a collaboration between the ...
Architects, sculptors, painters, we must all turn to the crafts. Art is not a 'profession'. There is...
Architecture: London's new rail terminus at St Pancras
In the 18th century there lay just to the north of the burgeoning City of London, divided from the m...
Art and Survival: Patricia Johanson's Environmental Projects
The outstanding American landscapist Patricia Johanson occupies a unique position in American contem...
Artists imagine action to stimulate change
The Lisson Gallery in London took the phrase 'Imagine Action' as the title for its recent summer exh...
Book review: Contemporary Garden Aesthetics, Creations and Interpretations
he expansion and enrichment of current discourse on the above subject has been notable where landsca...
When this annual exhibition was launched 28 years ago it suffered some hostile critical reception bu...
AfterShock: Conflict, Violence and Resolution in Contemporary Art
The imagery of violence is commonplace today. Hollywood torture films, videoed beheadings, coverage ...
An important retrospective is at the Hayward Gallery, London, until 19 August. The work covers a wid...
Beijing's 'New' Arts Centre: The Capital Museum
Beijing's Capital Museum has emerged from obscurity to become a leading Chinese cultural institution...
In England, during the early 1940s, there had been a real belief that a German attack was imminent, ...
Awakenings: Zen Figure Painting in Medieval Japan
Awakenings: Zen Figure Painting in Medieval Japan, edited by Gregory Levine and Yukio Lippit, accomp...
Camouflage is not a much-visited field in contemporary art. Yet it is described comprehensively and ...
Andy Goldsworthy: Four Indoor Galleries and Open Air
Leading British land artist Andy Goldsworthy is helping the Yorkshire Sculpture Park mark its 30th a...
Apocalypse in Pink: The Work of Irene Barberis.
The role of faith in society and in art, has been addressed in numerous forms since the new mille...
Contemporary Artists Embrace a 'Radical' Tradition
In recent years, traditional handcrafts, particularly knitting, have experienced a boom and drawn a ...
A Secret Service: Art, Compulsion, Concealment
Kurt Schwitters’ experimental practice ranged across sound poetry, drama, collage, typography, pub...
Alvar Aalto: Through the Eyes of Shigeru Ban
A retrospective exhibition of the architecture of Alvar Aalto in central London is extremely timely....
Anish Kapoor: Artist of Smoke, Air and Space
Anish Kapoor is the man behind one of the most expensive public sculptures in the world - the US$23 ...
Anselm Kiefer: Aperiatur Terra
Anselm Kiefer's London exhibition at White Cube, 'Aperiatur Terra', takes a quote from the Book of I...
A Singular Artist Brings a Singular Work to South America
Born in Bombay (Mumbai), India, in 1954, sculptor Anish Kapoor has lived in London since his youth. ...
Citizens and Kings: Portraits in the Age of Revolution 1760-1830
The Royal Academy of Arts is currently hosting 'Citizens and Kings: Portraiture in the Age of Revolu...
At Frieze Art Fair, Saskia Sassen spoke compellingly about how artists can find potential in underus...
The development of architecture specifically for cancer outpatient healthcare has been pioneered in ...
Brice Marden: A Retrospective of Paintings and Drawings
The work of American painter Brice Marden is currently showing in a major retrospective at the Museu...