Book review: Pallasmaa phenomenon
Juhani Pallasmaa, the Finnish architect and theorist, has in the current period entering the twenty-...
Richard England: Architect as Artist
Dennis Sharp has produced this well-prepared monograph to coincide (approximately) with England's 70...
Revisiting Juan Soriano in Philadelphia
Mexican artist Juan Soriano is an intriguing figure among the personalities animating the history of...
It is now three months since the New Museum of Contemporary Art (NMCA) in Manhattan's Lower East Sid...
Book review: The Formalesque: A Guide to Modern Art and its History
According to the Australian art historian Bernard Smith, The Formalesque: A Guide to Modern Art and ...
From Agit-Prop to Free Space: The Architecture of Cedric Price
This important city monograph was first published over a year ago, but it is exemplary within the 'W...
An Exhibition of Event Photography
For anyone interested in the ways in which a photograph can aspire to the condition of a work of art...
The NeoCraft Conference held in the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design University in Halifax, Nov...
The Art of Nothing: Ivo Mesquita and the Bienal Internacional de Arte de S...
The 'Bienal Internacional de Arte de S...
l'atelier d'Alberto Giacometti
Travelling through countryside around the northern reaches of Paris, you catch sight of white escarp...
Book review: Heterotopic visions
Increasingly, contemporary artists, as much as architects and urban planners, have to grope for a cl...
Book review: Marvellous Melbourne
This important city monograph was first published over a year ago, but it is exemplary within the 'W...
Seduced by the Oldest Topic in the World
Sex is an extremely popular subject, but 'sex appeal' is nearly impossible to define. People seem to...
Joan Eardley's life was cut tragically short by cancer in 1963 at the age of 42. Born in England she...
The current winter show at the National Gallery, London, perhaps springs from mixed motives. Firstly...
The One and the Many: Carlos Ortiz and the Dance of Life
For Nuyorican artist Carlos Ortiz, the seeds for a series of personal epiphanies were planted while ...
Towers: from Manhattan to Moscow
Renzo Piano's New York Times Building, situated on 8th Avenue, Manhattan, was opened this month to c...
The 52nd Venice Biennale ended on 21 November 2007. It will have presented an enormous challenge to ...
Breaking the Rules - The Printed Face of the European Avant Garde 1900-1937
Based on the British Library's huge collection of manuscripts, sound recordings and all manner of th...
Extreme Embroidery: Art and Craft Meet On the Verge
In 2007, the Museum of Arts & Design in New York City embarked on a series of exhibits examining way...
Colin St John Wilson: Buildings and Projects
Roger Stonehouse was the chosen author for this extensive monograph, which forms a catalogue raisonn...
Book review: Archaeology of an Urban Desert
Jon Naar is a British photographer who has been based in New York. In 1974 he joined up with the lat...
Age of Transparency and Innocence: the Changing Face of Childhood
The excellent exhibition The Changing Face of Childhood, the product of a collaboration between the ...
Architects, sculptors, painters, we must all turn to the crafts. Art is not a 'profession'. There is...
The Apparitions of a Surrealist Eye: Dalí & Film
Salvador Dalí's involvement with film was profound and critical to his artistic sensibilities...
Architecture: London's new rail terminus at St Pancras
In the 18th century there lay just to the north of the burgeoning City of London, divided from the m...
This book is the catalogue of the current Barbican Exhibition in London. It forms a substantial volu...
Art and Survival: Patricia Johanson's Environmental Projects
The outstanding American landscapist Patricia Johanson occupies a unique position in American contem...
The autumn grand exhibition at Tate Britain is on the work of John Everett Millais (1829-1896), prom...
Sidney Nolan: A New Retrospective
This is the first major retrospective of Sidney Nolan's paintings since his death in 1992. It presen...