I liked Bill Woodrow’s bronze sculpture “Regardless of History” which was the selection for 2000 on the fourth plinth in Trafalgar Square, though Alastair Sooke, writing in the Telegraph, thought it has been one of the weakest of the commissions for the plinth. It seemed to represent nature in the form of a tree reclaiming […]
Look ahead through the doorway of the Pace Gallery in Burlington Gardens and you see in front of you a group of bronze statues – twelve naked men and women – as if they had been frozen in time. Enter the room and to your left you see a white classical marble statue “Ballerina […]
Frank Gehry is well know from the curvilinear forms that he uses in his buildings such as the Guggenheim Museum in Bilboa and the Stata Center for MIT in Cambridge, MA. As many architects do, he has turned his design skills to other things including furniture, jewellery for Tiffany & Co and a glass bottle […]
The London School of Economics this week announced the winner of their design competition for a £90 million Centre for Social Sciences at the heart of their Aldwych campus as Rogers Stirk Harbour. LSE director and jury chair Craig Calhoun said: “They have designed beautiful, dynamic buildings around the world and they offered an elegant, […]
While the massive new extension at Tate Modern is still under construction and due to open in 2014, Tate Britain has been undergoing a £45 million transformation at its southern end. The original entrance to the Gallery, in recent years this end hasn’t felt a second cousin to the new Manton Entrance in Atterbury Street […]
Providing an interesting contrast to the Paul Klee exhibition at Tate Modern is a fascinating exhibition on the work of the little known artist Mira Schendel. Born 40 years after Klee, there are some interesting links; she too was born in Swizerland and her early work was influenced by Paul Klee among other artists of […]
The extensive exhibition of Paul Klee’s work at the Tate covers his life from when he started painting in the first decade of the 20th century until his death in 1940. Born in Switzerland in 1879, he had a love of both music and art in his early years and played as a violinist in […]
The awards celebration for this year’s Green Gown Awards, which recognise best practice in sustainability in universities and colleges was held in the stunning surroundings of Derby College, a sensitive refurbishment of old railways buildings. A mixture of new buildings and sensitive conversions, the highlight is the renovated Grade-II listed Roundhouse, built in 1839 and […]
The exhibition “Pearls” at the Victoria and Albert Museum describes the background to the pearl industry, especially in the Middle East a reflection of the partnership with the Qatar Museums Authority. Over 200 items of rare and historic jewellery, including the pearl earring worn by King Charles I as he went towards his execution, are […]
Michael Elmgreen and Ingar Dragset, the Danish/Norwegian duo, made an impact in London with their statue of a young boy on a golden rocking horse on Trafalgar Square’s fourth plinth last year. Their project “Tomorrow” is installed in the former and currenlty-unused textile galleries in the Victoria and Albert Museum. The scene is a grand […]
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