Did Alberto Giacometti and Yves Klein know each other when they lived within a mile of each other in the artistic enclave of Montparnasse in Paris, Klein having returned to Paris in 1946 and Klein moving there nine years later. Did the two artists meet for coffee or drinks in a local café, although Giacometti […]
Was 1964 one of those years in which the world turned on its axis and changed for ever? Did the people living at the time (like me) realise the changes that were happening they hung around the juke boxes in cafes or sat up in their bedroom with friends playing the latest pop music? In […]
The entrance to the Mount Street Gardens in Mayfair, London has a new marker in the form of a colourful tower of polyhedra by the Canadian artist Angela Bulloch who has an exhibition of her work at the Simon Lee Gallery showing more of her geometric towers which build on Brancusi’s Endless Column using 21st […]
Alexander Calder’s colourful vibrant work has been on display in several cities over the summer. In London and New York, the Gargosian Gallery had a show of Calder’s gouache paintings, which provided a contrast to the kinetic and mobile sculptures for which he is best known and which are currently on display in a major […]
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