Tag: utopia
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Charlotte Keates – interview: ‘I want my paintings to feel more like dreamscapes, that sense of deja-vu’
The artist talks about her series of paintings in the group show Just What Is It …?, at Cristea Roberts Gallery, and how they draw on memories engaging all five senses
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Tomás Saraceno: Aria
Saraceno’s utopian visions for a future without fossil fuel or boundaries – and his admiration for spider technology – make for a compelling show
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Cyril de Commarque: ‘I believe in a new renaissance of thinking’
The French artist has converted a grain barge into an artwork to sail the Thames, blasting out a soundtrack of revolution and hosting conferences with leading thinkers on philosophy, economics and nanotechnology. He welcomed Studio International on board
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Aboriginal Women as Ambassadors of Art and Culture
The story of the Australian Aboriginal batik projects in five distinct desert communities in the 1970s and 1980s reveals a series of ironies, which enable contemporary indigenous art in Australia to be better understood. The works themselves are superb, as…
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Utopia: the genius of Emily Kame Kngwarreye
National Museum of Australia, Canberra 22 August-12 October 2008
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That Man from Rio: Celebrating Oscar Niemeyer’s Centennial
Considered to be Brazil’s most important architect, Oscar Niemeyer (b.1907) is also a major figure in the development of modern architecture internationally. He has become a symbol for his country for many reasons: he designed the national capital, Brasília, founded…
