By a piece of incredibly bad luck, King’s College London opened its latest and possibly its most ambition exhibition in the new cultural spaces of the Arcade in Bush House last Monday (16th March). Alfred Cohen (1920-2001) came to Europe from Chicago after the Second World War, first to Paris, then Heidelberg and London. He […]
It is December in London. Out in the countryside, it is a cold evening with a dark winter sky, which at times turns green, and the chilly forbidding landscape appears empty except for the tall shapes of trees, some solitary, some in groups, reaching up so that they touch the darkness above them. But wait, […]
The large black sleek Mercedes stops and, as the chauffeur opens the car door and then waits, the elegantly dressed lady walks purposely across the pavement towards the shop, as the door opens invisibly in front of her. This is Mayfair with New Bond Street at its heart as the exclusive and expensive shopping street […]
We’ve all heard of Jackson Pollock (1912-1956), with his swirling free-moving colourful paintings which it is astonishing to think were created 0ver 60 years ago. Less known is Lee Krasner (1908-1984), the artist who married Pollock in 1945 – a relatively short marriage with Pollock dying in an alcohol-related car accident in 1956 when he […]
In the 1970’s Allan D’Arcangelo (1930-1988) was well-known in the art world and is represented in many collections in America and Europe but, in 1975, (according to Wikipedia) he decided to quite the international gallery that represented him and, retiring to a farm in Kenoza Lake with his family, he virtually disappeared from the art […]
By happy coincidence, running in parallel with exhibition of 20th century German art at the Ben Brown gallery in London, is an exhibition of work by the German artist Ernst Wilhelm May (1902-1968), who for some reason is not well-known in the UK, showing how his work changed and transformed over his 40-year career from […]
The Royal Academy has been showing how artists in 1930’s America responded to the rapid economic and social change of that decade. The British Museum, with “American Dream: Pop to the Present” continues the story from the 1960’s, showing the artistic innovations and developments which reflected the prosperity and optimism in American society at the […]
"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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