Tag: Michael Spens
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Obituary: Raymond Mason
He had early been a friend, and something of a protégé, of Henry Moore, who tried to persuade him to return to England, saying that “we have here a fine little team of up-and-coming sculptors”, by whom he meant Butler,…
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Book review: Architecture in Times of Need. Make it Right. Rebuilding New Orleans
Make it Right. Rebuilding New Orleans’ Lower Ninth Ward
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Book review: Passion City: STraum a. Landscape Architecture
Editor: Kristin Feireiss PRESTEL. Munich, London, New York, 2010 ISBN 978-3-7913-4305-1
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Book review: Ben Johnson. Foster in View
Editor: David Jenkins PRESTEL. Munich, London, New York, 2010 ISBN 978-3-7913-4175-0
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Paul Sandby: Picturing Britain. National Gallery of Scotland, 2009
Paul Sandby (1731–1809) occupies a prominent position in British art of the 18th century in the practice of Landscape Art. This is nonetheless the first comprehensive exhibition of his work to cover the full range of the artist’s work over…
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Book review: MJ Long, Artists’ Studios
This book is something of a rarity today. It comes as a survey of the design of 14 ‘studios’, all for artists, plus one famous watering hole, the Ivy Restaurant in London, by the architect MJ Long. She is the…
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Eduardo Paolozzi: The Jet Age Compendium
Raven Row, London 4 September–1 November 2009
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Book review: An Outline of European Architecture by Nikolaus Pevsner
In this new and updated edition, the current publishers have produced a well-timed development of this classic work which first appeared in 1943 as a Pelican Paperback. The first line of the author’s Introduction was the famous, but now outdated…
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Baroque World: Baroque 1620-1800: Style in the Age of Magnificence, V&A, London 2009.
Baroque 1620–1800: Style in the Age of Magnificence Victoria and Albert Museum, London 4 April–19 July 2009.
