Tag: Dundee
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Hello, Robot: Design Between Human and Machine
From Star Wars’ R2-D2 to a machine that produces compassionate messages for the dying, this is a celebration of robots that also asks timely questions about how we interact with machines, and how we should design our shared future
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David Austen – interview: ‘I think Dr Seuss is as great as Picasso’
On the occasion of Underworld, a new exhibition at Dundee Contemporary Arts, the artist talks about writers who have influenced him, from Camus to Dr Seuss, his recurring dream of being chased by a naked lizard woman, and why he…
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Phil Collins – interview: the artist who brought a statue of Engels from Ukraine to Manchester
The artist talks about his latest exhibition, Ceremony, which documents the statue’s journey, and explains why Engels has such relevance in contemporary Britain
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V&A Dundee opens: a monumental structure that aims to take the city under its wing
Kengo Kuma has delivered a new landmark in the V&A Dundee. It is a craggy sculptural structure inspired by the city’s shipbuilding past and Scotland’s rugged cliffs, which Kuma hopes will reconnect the city with nature. Inside, he has crafted…
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Home and Garden: Paintings and Drawings of English Middle Class Urban Domestic Space 1914 to the present
Geffrye Museum, London 20 February-24 June 2007
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Frank Gehry – Maggie’s Centre, Dundee
On the western, landscaped edge of Dundee city, overlooking the Tay Estuary, Frank Gehry’s very latest work stands complete. It exists mindful of particular place-related precedent, of shrines or temples from pre-history or early classical periods. But this gem of…
