China is a country which is trying to balance tradition and heritage with its future technological and cultural development. Often the two clash in a way which we in the west should not find surprising – we had the same complexities and questions after the Second World War when many old urban areas from Coventry […]
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 […]
Walk across the road from the Gagosian Gallery‘s exhibition in Grosvenor Hill of contemporary self-portraits focussed on Rembrandt’s portrait from Kenwood House to the Almine Rech Gallery and there is a linked, but different focus, with colourful portraits of young people enjoying life, perhaps partying on a night out in a nearby club in Mayfair? Chloe […]
Walter de Maria was born in Albany, California in 1935; Tom Wesselmann was born in Cincinnati only 4 years earlier, in 1931. They are therefore almost contemporaries, but their work couldn’t be different, as shown by the two exhibitions facing each other across Grosvenor Hill in London at the Gagosian and Almine Rich galleries. Both […]
One of the great joys of the arts scene in London, with its many private and commercial galleries, is finding happy coincidences as you explore different exhibitions close to each other. London doesn’t have the breath-taking concentration of galleries that you find in Chelsea in New York, connected like a spine by the High Line, […]
It is good to see Cuban art gaining the reputation it deserves with an increasing number of exhibitions in London. Most notable was the retrospective at Tate Modern on Wilfredo Lam in 2017 while this summer there have been exhibitions of the work of Carlos Garaicoa at the Parasol Unit Foundation for Contemporary Art and […]
By happy coincidence, running in parallel with exhibition of 20th century German art at the Ben Brown gallery in London, is an exhibition of work by the German artist Ernst Wilhelm May (1902-1968), who for some reason is not well-known in the UK, showing how his work changed and transformed over his 40-year career from […]
Two galleries located within minutes of each of other in Mayfair are collaborating on exhibitions by the same artist, American pop-artist Tom Wesselmann (1931-2004). Not only that, but both have opened up new spaces in their galleries, not seen before. Well done, Tom Wesselmann – look what you have achieved. Almine Rech Gallery has moved […]
Towering above the room, the ballerinas appear to have the delicacy of glass Christmas baubles which break all too easily, yet are solid and made of hard steel. Like glass baubles, their curves create reflections everywhere, of visitors as they move around them, of the lights which project onto them and of the paintings on the […]
"The many great gardens of the world, of literature and poetry, of painting and music, of religion and architecture, all make the point as clear as possible: The soul cannot thrive in the absence of a garden. If you don't want paradise, you are not human; and if you are not human, you don't have a soul."
(Thomas Moore)
To be an architect means having a wide range of interests - architecture, art and creativity in all its variety of forms, sustainability, science and innovation. The greatest interest is often where these different worlds overlap and collide - that is when something imaginative often occurs that pushes us all forward to another place
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