Embanking the Sublime The Unilever Series: Rachel Whiteread
Rachel Whiteread is the most successful and original artist to have filled the big space at Tate Mod...
Eileen Gray at the Design Museum, London 2005
Eileen Gray's furniture has become well known ever since the London-based architect, designer and re...
Travelling from London to Bexhill-on-Sea on a late autumn day, when the sun got stronger as one reac...
Design: Edward Bawden and Eric Ravilious
The world of Eric Ravilious has received renewed attention in the past five years. Particularly nota...
Ends Middles Beginnings: Edward Cullinan Architects – book review
This practice biography (a more appropriate term than 'monograph' (which is over-used and misunderst...
Diane Arbus's first retrospective exhibit in 1972 - several months after her suicide - shocked the p...
Francis Bacon: Portraits and Heads
Francis Bacon: Portraits and Heads – The loss of faith in humanity in the late 1940s was such that...
Festival Connections - 179th RSA Annual Exhibition
The Royal Scottish Academy in Edinburgh has a particular advantage over the Royal Academy of Arts in...
The first major exhibition of Mexican artist, Frida Kahlo, showing this summer at Tate Modern, has b...
Finland: Modern Architectures in History – book review
The awakening of modernism in the 1880s in Finland, as in other European nations, was first felt thr...
From Kirchner to Kandinsky: German Expressionism in Dutch Museums 1919-1964
In summer 2005, the new art gallery in the Groninger Museum is showing an excellent exhibition deali...
James Dyson's resignation as Chairman of the Board of Directors at the Design Museum in London is a ...
Erich Mendelsohn: Dynamics and Function - Realised Visions of a Cosmopolit...
What better venue could there be for an exhibition of the work of Erich Mendelsohn than the De La Wa...
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...
With the latest trend of fashion houses stamping their presence in Japan by engaging...
Everchanging mirage - Louis Vuitton Roppongi Hills
Louis Vuitton Roppongi Hills – Louis Vuitton first started as a manufacturer of expensive luggage ...
In 1969 Studio International allowed Donald Judd to air his grievances towards the art world in an a...
Eric Ravilious, the renowned English painter of the pre-war decade, was killed in 1943 aged 39 while...
FACE UP - Contemporary Art from Australia, Nationalgalerie im Hamburger Ba...
At the Hamburger Bahnhof, Museum of Contemporary Art in Berlin, an important exhibition is showing w...
The first Frieze Art Fair, a major new international art fair, took place in London from 17–20 Oct...
Frank Gehry - Walt Disney Concert Hall
Computer-Aided Three-Dimensional Interactive Application (CATIA) unlocks the magic that enables Fr...
Frank Gehry - Maggie's Centre, Dundee
On the western, landscaped edge of Dundee city, overlooking the Tay Estuary, Frank Gehry's very late...
Daniel Libeskind: Felix Nussbaum Museum in Osnabrück
Daniel Libeskind won the competition to build the Felix Nussbaum Museum in Osnabrück, Germany...
This compact and beautifully illustrated book concentrates on the essential aspects ...
Two new exhibitions of new work by Frank Stella recently opened in London and New York....
I was in Memphis, Tennessee earlier this year to lecture on Charles Rennie Mackintosh and found myse...
David Hockney: Painting on Paper
David Hockney: Painting on Paper at Annely Juda concentrates on the artist's dynamic new use of wat...
Australia is often out of synch with much of the rest of the world. The progressive Whitlam Labour e...
Fabric of Vision: Dress and Drapery in Painting
Over the summer (19 June—8 September 2002) the National Gallery, London showed Fabric of Vision: D...