Taking refuge from the cold wet weather, Californian artist John Baldessari’s Penguin has hopped from the open spaces of Regent’s Park where it greeted visitors to the Frieze Sculpture Park to the more enclosed courtyard of the Marian Goodman Gallery in Soho, where it announces more of his work upstairs: ‘Brain/Cloud (Two Views)’ along with […]
If there is a theme, it seems to be birds, starting with John Baldessari’s large penguin that greets you as you arrive, then Kathleen Ryan’s figures which could be parrots sitting recycled street furniture, Tracy Emin’s monuments to birds which represent angels, but could also be devils (think of Alfred Hitchcock) and Elmgreen & Dragset‘s […]
The US State Department created controversy when, despite deep budget cuts, it spent $400,000 on John Baldessari’s sculpture “Camel Contemplating a Needle”, representing the difficulty the wealthy have in entering the kingdom of heaven, for the new American embassy in Islamabad in Pakistan. The price was apparently discounted, but even Donald Trump couldn’t resist commenting […]
All eyes will be on Los Angeles and the recipients of those golden statuettes at the Oscars at the end of the month while, in the same week, the gallery which Wallpaper magazine has declared to be the best new gallery in its 2016 Design Awards will open at 5900 Wiltshire Boulevard across the road […]
"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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