With the clouds of coronavirus circling round the world, museums, galleries, theatres, libraries and other buildings are closed and shuttered, their great architecture hidden from view. Earlier this year, in what now seems to be another time and place, Candida Höfer’s technically superb photographs on show at Ben Brown Fine Arts highlighted the grand, intricate and […]
Numerous reports have predicted the benefits on productivity, but the devastating effects on employment, that AI and robotics may have in the future, some of which is necessary for UK plc to increase its productivity which is poor against our competitors, for all sorts of reasons. Creative professions such as artists and composers have generally […]
Streamlined, sleek, geometrical forms with pure lines in glass, steel and concrete. While Europe struggled with the financial aftermath of the Second World War, North and South American countries were investing with new modernist architecture that looked forward to an optimistic prosperous and creative future. There is an astonishing amount of modernist architecture from the […]
By a happy coincidence, two galleries facing each other are, between them, showing the work of four different modern and contemporary artists from Spain and Latin America: Marto Marce, Luis Romero, Jesus Guerrero and Vik Muniz. Brazilian artist Vik Muniz’s bold, colourful abstract geometric ‘Real Pictures’ at Ben Brown Fine Arts, contrast with the more […]
It’s interesting to visit Maddox Arts with its current exhibition ‘Border Lines’ and then walk across Brooks Mews to Ben Brown Fine Arts and the current exhibition of work by Alighiero Boetti, focussed on his embroidery which, by its very nature, is created from lines of thread and which, in his Mappas has a direct […]
The broken skylight of an old warehouse roof, twisted trees perhaps the result of a forest fire, the tangled steelwork of a collapsed building, perhaps again the result of a fire, all silhouetted against an empty sky. These have been graphically painted by British artist Tony Bevan in his exhibition at Ben Brown, showing the […]
The front of Claridges Hotel is all decorated for Christmas. At the rear, in Brook’s Mews, construction hoardings, workers and lorries suggest building works are going on. Further down are two galleries, Maddox on the left and Ben Brown on the right. Enter Ben Brown and go down the steps and you enter almost a […]
Hand in hand, lovers stroll along the Malecon. The rolling sea crashes onto the rocks under the romantic Cuban sky with the wild beat of Latin American music floating across from the open windows of the nearby buildings. The change comes quickly – black clouds approach and the sea heaves as the wind blows the […]
Born in three different decades, Heinz Mack (born 1931) and Isa Genzken (born 1948) both developed their artistic careers in the period after the Second World War while Thomas Schütte (born 1954) is from a more contemporary generation. Work from the three artists has been on display in exhibitions in London and Manchester which illustrate […]
"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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