Probably one of the most unloved Brutalist buildings in the UK, with its sculptural harsh concrete exterior, the Hayward Gallery on the South Bank has been refurbished on the interior by FCB Studio Architects, keeping the Brutalist essence of the building, but with one radical change – opening up the rooflights to allow daylight to […]
The preparations are almost complete – on the 9th of February, competitors will assemble in the Olympic stadium in PyeongChang for the opening ceremony of the 2018 Winter Olympics, to be repeated a month later with the competitors for the Paralympics, ready for a world-class celebration of winter sports. The tiger Soohoran and his friend […]
Why in this world where there is so much information, do countries and governments across the world have such divergent views and ignore lessons of the past. In one part of the world, a socialist regime which has nationalised virtually every industry has seen its economy collapse; in another, voters may well vote in a […]
In the 1970’s Allan D’Arcangelo (1930-1988) was well-known in the art world and is represented in many collections in America and Europe but, in 1975, (according to Wikipedia) he decided to quite the international gallery that represented him and, retiring to a farm in Kenoza Lake with his family, he virtually disappeared from the art […]
Basic first aid: you have a friend who is choking on a lump of food. What do you do? You may think that you just wallop them on the back, but the most effective way is to grab them round the abdomen from behind and, with your hands clenched together in a fist, punch upwards […]
Robert Montgomery’s art sculptures, the latest exhibition in the Lobby of One Canada Square, provide a prelude to the light festival outside as the gardens and squares in and around the tall corporate office blocks at Canary Wharf came alive over the last two weeks with Amanda Parer’s huge white rabbits in Jubilee Park, Amberlights’ […]
Twisting, flowing, bursting with energy, colour and light, American artist Dale Chihuly has set the Halcyon Gallery in New Bond Street alight with his latest glass sculptures in ‘Chihuly NOW’. His work is best known to London through the incredible writhing, naturalistic chandelier hanging in the entrance of the Victoria and Albert Museum. Chihuly continues […]
It’s a dull dark January night in Mayfair, but the lights shine brightly in Phillips in Berkeley Square with three floors of limited edition works by a huge variety of modern and contemporary artists from North America, Japan, Britain and Europe including Jan Miro, Pablo Picasso, Salvador Dali, Francis Bacon, Andy Warhol, Joseph Beuys, Roy […]
Perhaps not well known, but Sir Henry Tate did not only donate the funding and collection for the establishment of the Tate Gallery, but he also funded three libraries across the river in the Borough of Lambeth, in Brixton, in Streatham and in South Lambeth. The last has survived bombing nearby in the Second World […]
Architecture is both an art and a science; constrained by the structural and physical constraints of the materials of which buildings are constructed. Great architecture pushes these boundaries artistically and structurally; poor architecture, of which sadly there is too much, plays games or tries to show how clever it can be and often ends up […]
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