It is initially a little strange to find the first artist on show in an exhibition of Surrealism in Latin American art to be English, but if you know the history of the artist Leonora Carrington who moved to Mexico in 1942, you will understand – all of which makes the current tensions in the […]
Art to make you smile: An international cast of contemporary artists engage viewers’ emotions in ‘Happy’ at the NSU Art Museum in Fort Lauderdale, including American artist Keith Haring, British artist Tracy Emin and Cuban artist Jorge Pantoja, with installations by Andy Warhol (with his playful Silver Clouds) and Kenny Sharf (with his amazing Cosmic […]
Goodbye to The Twelve Days of Christmas; hello to The Twelve Rebuilds of Christmas. For guests staying overnight on 16th of November, Christmas came early when they woke up on the Sunday morning to find many areas of the hotel transformed with the imaginative joint initiative between LEGO and the Savoy Hotel, starting with a […]
If you are a leading design-focused department store with a history going back over a century, famous for rich fashions with a touch of the exotic, what do you do for decorations at Christmas, complicated by the fact that your store has three atria at different levels. Inspired by a poem by Gabrielle Djanogly, describing […]
The pop band is cocooned within a fabric-hung studio. Strangely, as you enter, one of the members throws a boot high over the other members of the band, whose instruments are eerily and strangely covered in tar, but the energy, liveliness and sound is unmistakable. This is a band in full flow…..while yet frozen in […]
Ravensbourne University made a bold but forward-thinking decision to move to the then barren, but developing, landscape of Greenwich Peninsula in 2010 with its unique building designed by Foreign Office Architects which now, a decade later, looks very much part of the urban landscape of this new quarter for London. Nearby, Antony Gormley’s ‘Quantum Cloud’ […]
How much does architecture reflect the society of the time? Think of the great cathedrals and parish churches representing the importance of religion in medieval communities, the perfection of Greek Temples connecting to the hidden world of the gods, the great tombs of Egypt linking to the afterlife, and the modernist monotonous blocks of flats […]
In 2013, the artist Danh Vo purchased various personal effects in auction of the former US General Robert McNamara, one of the leading figures in the Vietnam War, for which he later expressed regret. This included a chair, one of two on which Kennedy and McNamara had sat while developing their strategy for the War, […]
A fascinating exhibition covering a lifetime’s work of one of the leading female modern Portuguese artists, Maria Helena de Silva (1908-1992); indeed some consider her to be Portugal’s greatest modern artist. Starting with work that is reflective of modernist styles of the time, she developed her own style taking architectural scenes are interpreting them with abstract […]
Smile for the camera….One of the great things about walking in London, even in the rain, is suddenly you discover something you’ve never seen before. In a street of mews houses and studios, Bourdon Place near Berkeley Square, a passing shopper stumbles across the photographer Terence Donovan photographing the model Twiggy close to his studios […]
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