Remember the days when letters were handwritten or typewritten with copies on thin paper? No email, no computers, no digitisation… and drawings were done with that old-fashioned thing called ink and pens. And, when putting on a major retrospective exhibition of a major international artist would cost less than £2,000? What would it cost today? […]
Three cheers for Francesco Vezzoli for bringing the colour, theatre and heat of Italy into Nahmad Project’s gallery space in the heart of cold grey autumnal London. Goodbye to the ubiquitous white walls and stone, concrete or timber floors of most art galleries. For three months, works by Vezzoli and Giorgio de Chirico will be […]
Founded as the Imperial Royal Austrian Museum of Art and Industry in 1863, the Museum of Applied Arts in Vienna (MAK) with similar aims to the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, the MAK collection reflects the importance of modern and contemporary design in Vienna, including crafts from the Wiener Werkstätte founded in 1903 by […]
It starts and ends with theatrical effects. You enter into a darkened room with stars running around, reflected from the nightclub silver glitterball at the centre, from which you move through a wardrobe straight from “The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe” into a magical “Wanderland”, and you end with a digitally-projected building façade from […]
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