Many ‘firsts’ are here, including Walt Disney’s first full length film ‘Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs’, the first Star Wars film and the first James Bond movie’ ‘Dr No’ captured in posters from the time the films were released. Sotheby’s New Bond Street entrance is closed for several months for a face-lift, so everyone […]
100 years is a long time in the art world; new artists, cultures and movements arise and fall. Tate Modern reflects on the centenary of the Russian 1917 revolution with two very different exhibitions, which are in many ways more interesting in terms of the links between art and society than the Modigliani exhibition […]
Imagine the amount of effort to cut electric plastic sticky black tape into undulating waves, the folds of elegant dresses, patterns on wallpaper, strings of pearls or other intricate shapes, a material which can provide a huge contrast between thick dense black stripes and more delicate intricate shapes. Benjamin Murphy uses black tape as his […]
The South Bank Centre is celebrating contemporary dance, music, theatre, design, fashion, art and literature that links the UK and the Indian subcontinent in the sixth annual festival Alchemy with events and art installations across the buildings and external terraces. The art installations include graphic art, photography and lotus flowers which pulse in response to […]
There is a strong tradition of poster and graphic art in Cuba. It continues in Miami with the work of artists such as ILLICIT who, taking the example of Banksy and other street artists, seeks to maintain the mystery of anonymity, though there is a family link with Little Havana. His work is sharp, graphic […]
"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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