Antony Micallef, who won second prize in the BP/Amoco Portrait of the Year award in 2000, is recognised for the way his work comments on contemporary aspects of culture and how we experience it, often illustrating a darker side to our consumer society. His new exhibition at the Lazarides Rathbone Gallery in London explores his […]
There are exhibitions in the US commemorating the passing of the Civil Rights Bill of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965 such as the photographic exhibition of the work of civil rights photographer Bob Adelman. In London, an exhibition at the Photographers’ Gallery presents a broader perspective showing more than 300 black and […]
Sculptor Alex Chinneck has again turned the world upside down with his latest urban sculpture called “Pick Yourself Up and Pull Yourself Together” in the Hungerford Car Park on London’s South Bank where a strip of tarmac appears to have lifted up and curved over, carrying with it a red Vauxhall Corsa car which remains […]
With jazzy-coloured doors along the façade, the latest London project to use shipping containers for economic short-term accommodation has been established along the banks of the Regents Canal in Shoreditch. Last year a “pop-up” retail and business mall created from containers opened in the Elephant and Castle, London. Named “ContainerVille”, this new scheme of 30 […]
Charles Rennie Mackintosh (1868 – 1928) is probably Glasgow’s best-know architect. While recent headlines having been about the fire which destroyed much of the iconic interior of his Glasgow School of Art and the competition to select architects for its rebuilding, the Royal Institution of British Architects (RIBA) is holding an exhibition of over 60 […]
The builders are finishing the final pieces of work and the cleaners are tidying and polishing ahead of the arrival of London’s newest art gallery – the Canada House Gallery – which reopens later this week as part of the refurbishment of the 1827 Canada House in Trafalgar Square, originally designed by Robert Smirke, architect […]
Three different artists – Marlene Dumas, Louise Bourgeois and Nam June Paik – display their perspectives on modern life. The Tate is holding a major exhibition “The Image as Burden”showing the work of Marlene Dumas (born 1953), the South African artist who now lives in Amsterdam. Her work is challenging for the viewer – her […]
The architects Pelli Clarke Pelli have achieved the first BREEAM Outstanding Certification for sustainable design for an Office Tower in China. No. 1 Shanghai, a 180m tall, 34 storey commercial tower developed by the Shanghai International Shipping Service Centre (SISSC), who will locate their headquarters there has achieved the first BREEAM Outstanding design rating for […]
At the north end of Savile Row in London are three international private galleries in modern buildings, one of which at 23 Savile Row replaced the aptly-named “Fortress House”, formerly the home of English Heritage and now much improved with the new building designed by Eric Parry including a sculpture by Joel Shapiro above its entrance. […]
Brian Clarke celebrates the life and career of his friend, the art dealer Robert Fraser, at the PACE Burlington Gardens, London. The art dealer Robert Fraser (1937 – 1986) was at the heart of the “Swinging Sixties” in London. On the ground floor of the PACE gallery in Burlington Gardens, London, the artist Brian Clarke […]
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