The Architecture of the British Library at St Pancras
The British Library famously has had a stormy and protracted development, and it is ...
Australian artist Ken Done's third exhibition of paintings is currently showing at the Rebecca Hossa...
The Art Gallery of New South Wales in Sydney recently celebrated the work of Charles Conder, the las...
Artists have only one life - yet Gerald Laing seems to have nine. During one of Laing's previous inc...
A Sense of Place: Three Artists
An artist's relationship with a particular place is a constant in art; Cézanne's paintings of Mont ...
The First Architectural Biennale Beijing 2004
It would not be an exaggeration to claim that the 21st century belongs to Asia - if not to China alo...
Bruce Nauman: Raw Materials – The great Turbine Hall at Tate Modern seems to evoke an Aladdin's ca...
Christopher Dresser 1834-1904: A Design Revolution
With suitable training, it is possible to date a previously unseen artefact within a couple of decad...
The Blue Man: The Portrait of James Milliken by Jean-Etienne Liotard, c.17...
Jean-Etienne Liotard (1702-89) was one of the finest portraitists of the eighteenth century. The rec...
Attention to detail and an open mind are requirements when visiting P.S.1. At once a contemporary ar...
The National Museum of the American Indian
Almost 500 years after the "discovery" of America, at last the original inhabitants are being recogn...
Yoshitomo Nara: From the Depth of my Drawer
Yoshitomo Nara: From the Depth of my Drawer – The title of this exhibition somehow creates nostalg...
Past Things and Present: Jasper Johns since 1983
The first major exhibition in Britain of American Jasper Johns since 1977 at the Hayward Gallery is ...
Russian Landscape in the Age of Tolstoy
Russian Landscape in the Age of Tolstoy, at the National Gallery this summer reveals a seminal perio...
Bill Brandt: A Centenary Retrospective
Two parallel exhibitions of the work of the greatest British 20th century photographer provide a tim...
Royal Academy Summer Exhibition 2004
This year's innovative Summer Exhibition at the Royal Academy, London was selected and organised by ...
There is an innocent quality about the photographs of Jacque Henri Lartigue, an honesty and openness...
Inventing Race: Casta Painting and Eighteenth Century Mexico
'Inventing Race' is the intriguing title. But I first went to LACMA West. It was of particular inter...
The paintings of Edward Hopper have come to represent a quintessentially American experience - highl...
Elsa Schiaparelli, the flamboyant fashion designer of the Art Deco period, is renowned for her fabul...
Swiss Re, a lovable gherkin in space
'If you seek his monument, look around' - such was the epithet chosen by his son, for Sir Christophe...
Jellicoe to Jencks: New landscapes, new allegories.
Two highly significant but very different landscape and garden theorists are Sir Geoffrey Jellicoe (...
The enigma of Édouard Vuillard
Revisiting Vuillard on the last day of the exhibition, one is prone to many afterthoughts dominated ...
Mark Rowan-Hull: Seeing Music, Hearing Colour
Mark Rowan-Hull's abstract paintings form a dialogue with music. Firstly a pianist, Rowan-Hull (born...
Awesome the group has been, for they have become a 20th century phenomenon. The total revision of ar...
With the latest trend of fashion houses stamping their presence in Japan by engaging...
There is a beautiful film called 'England: Home and Beauty' that is a testament to the glamour of th...
Everchanging mirage - Louis Vuitton Roppongi Hills
Louis Vuitton Roppongi Hills – Louis Vuitton first started as a manufacturer of expensive luggage ...
The Lichtenstein retrospective at the Hayward Gallery establishes an interesting timescale in terms ...