Butterflies gently fluttering with their wings glowing in different colours, vibrant flower petals moving in the breeze, exotic birds with colourful plumage turning and watching you as you pass, Snow White and the Seven dwarfs, along with Mickey and Minnie interacting with you as you approach them, and a digital chess set…. British artist […]
Upstairs are examples of traditional Japanese wooden toys. Downstairs, joining Japan’s urban future and rural traditions in WOW’s new digital art installation at Japan House London, ‘WOW: City Lights and Woodland Shade’ starts with a breathless, fast-moving, 360 degree, experience as you fly in and out of buildings at night in Tokyo. WOW, a visual […]
There is a saying that when God opens closes one door, he opens another. In London this autumn when Antony Gormley closes one exhibition (at the Royal Academy), he opens another (at the nearby White Cube Gallery). The White Cube exhibition is a natural conclusion for visitors to the Royal Academy for the three short […]
I first saw Leo Villareal’s mesmerising works in May 2017 in the semi-industrial spaces of the PACE Gallery near the High Line in New York, where his work responded to the different volumes of the gallery spaces. PACE in London is more challenging given it is less quirky, but Leo Villareal blows the space apart […]
The construction trade show ‘London Build’ has arrived for two days in the November rain to fill the National Hall of Olympia. The key to making the success of this event is to attend one of the many seminars and discussions in the 9 conference theatres themed on Future London, London Design, Interiors & Fit-out, […]
In the blood bath that is the high street, the winners create unique designer-let environments, provide exemplary service and make their customers feel welcome, stimulated and valued. Retail needs to be as imaginative and engaging as the entertainment industry. The losers don’t have what you want in stock, provide an unexciting experience and, if you […]
The strange thing is that on two visits to Budapest, I don’t remember seeing much of the work of Dora Maurer, on of Hungary’s most renowned contemporary artists (born 1937) in the museums and galleries there. London has been fortunate in two exhibitions, one at Tate Modern and another at the White Cube in Bermondsey, […]
Was it a happy accidental coincidence or was it a plan that there should be exhibitions by the Hungarian artist Dora Maurer (born 1937) at Tate Modern and, a 15 or 20 minute walk away, at the White Cube in Bermondsey? Art aficionados needed to start at the retrospective at Tate Modern and then […]
This is a fascinating exhibition where you start with a fresh-faced young man starting out in his artistic career, full of promise, symbolism and ambition, and end with the reality of a wrinkled face at the end of his career and his life . Freud (1922-2011) is best known for his paintings of other people; […]
Having just spent some time travelling around Carcassonne in SW France and experienced a little of the area’s troubled history through visiting the medieval castles, cathedrals, churches and citadels, I started reading some fascinating books on the Inquisition. It seems that man has a fixation with destruction – in medieval times, men, women and children […]
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