Tag: Berlin

  • Brave old world: Absalon

    Absalon KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin 28 November 2010–20 February 2011

  • George Gittoes: Descendence stories, from Night Vision, The Diaries

    Artist and film-maker, George Gittoes has shown new paintings the Descendence series (2009–2010) in his Berlin studio to mark the end of the year he has spent there, before returning to the Tribal Belt of Pakistan

  • Libeskind impacting Denver

    What the Denver citizenry got then, in their quest for an international profile, was not the hoped-for clone of the Pirelli building designed just previously by Ponti (1956) for Milan, but something altogether different, a contextual work.

  • Douglas Gordon: Superhumanatural

    National Galleries of Scotland, Edinburgh 2 November 2006-14 January 2007 The film and video artist Douglas Gordon had his first one-man exhibition in Britain at the Lisson Gallery in 1994, sponsored by its perceptive director Nicholas Logsdail, to which he…

  • Kandinsky: The Path to Abstraction

    Tate Modern, London 22 June-1 October 2006 Kunstmuseum, Basel 21 October 2006-4 February 2007 For decades, art history taught us that Kandinsky was the greatest pioneer of abstract art, the artist who removed the subject matter from painting. The great…

  • Hilla von Rebay: the Artist Behind the Guggenheim

    Adam Gallery, London 6-25 September 2006 Hilla von Rebay is perhaps best known as Solomon R. Guggenheim’s art adviser and the person who commissioned Frank Lloyd Wright to design the Guggenheim Museum in New York. But the Adam Gallery is…

  • FACE UP – Contemporary Art from Australia, Nationalgalerie im Hamburger Bahnhof, Museum for the Present, Berlin

    Nationalgalerie im Hamburger Bahnhof, Museum for the Present, Berlin. 2 October – 4 January 2004

  • How cities renew, rebuild & remember

    Perhaps it was just a little ironic that, at a time when the bombing of Baghdad was in the offing, a conference should be held in The Lighthouse, Glasgow, Scotland on Sense & the City. Addressed by speakers representing Glasgow,…

  • Berlin embraces the sublime

    About the Sublime: Mark Rothko, Yves Klein, James Turrell, Deutsche Guggenheim Museum, 7 July through 7 October 2001

  • Richard Lindner and the human being as a toy

    Studio International, December 1968, Volume 176 Number 906, pp. 252–255.