In 2013, the artist Danh Vo purchased various personal effects in auction of the former US General Robert McNamara, one of the leading figures in the Vietnam War, for which he later expressed regret. This included a chair, one of two on which Kennedy and McNamara had sat while developing their strategy for the War, […]
The American artist Nan Goldin is a year older than me; we are therefore near contemporaries and have seen the world change in all sorts of different ways over the last 50 years. Man has walked on space and hidden gay, transvestite, bisexual and transvestite communities have become out from the darkness into the daylight. […]
It’s a bit of a shock! Ahead of you is a metal mesh fence and gate with chain and padlock, leading into a black and murky darkness. Gently, you manage to open the gate, and enter into the blackness, coming out into the dark space in film extracts are showing on tv monitors, flat screens […]
In a world where we are continually blasted with information and news demanding our attention with traditional newspapers, film and television now augmented with a myriad of social media platforms and blogs via twitter, instagram, facebook and the like, it becomes more and more difficult to discern what is true and what is manipulated in […]
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 […]
Portuguese artist Leonor Antunes (born 1972) has taken over the Marian Goodman Gallery in Soho, linking her work with the architecture of the spaces and also to other artists such as Mary Martin and Anni Albers and to the architects Alison and Peter Smithson. On the ground floor, groups of slender leather sculptures curve and […]
Showing the versatility of both his work and the former industrial space which is now the Marian Goodman Gallery in Soho, Matt Saunders combines fast-moving video, etchings, photography in his exhibition ‘Poems of Our Climate’. There is something almost spiritual about the spaces in which there is total silence apart from the gentle whirring of […]
Black is the new white – the upper gallery of the Marian Goodman Gallery in Soho, London, has turned black, with the light from the rooflights reflected off the polished black floor tiles. In the centre is a marble reproduction of the legs of Michaelangelo’s David, also reflected in the polished floor and plinth by […]
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 […]
A few years ago, a brass band marched into a deserted and desolate landscape playing melancholy music, reminiscent of funeral processions in Mexico or South Africa, taking over the whole upper gallery of the Marion Goodman Gallery in Soho, London, in “More Sweetly Play the Dance“. The maverick South African artist William Kentridge (born 1955) […]
"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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