The S|2 gallery in London, which is part of, but across the road from, Sotheby’s main auction house, curates a programme of unusual and often relatively-unknown modern artists with the best exhibitions showing two different artists side by side who compliment and/or contrast with each other through the two floors of galleries in the modern building […]
Sometimes you just have to throw out the standard way of doing things and break the rules. Perfectly-lit white-walled galleries have their place, but some art needs an environment that is darker and more subtle, such as the current exhibition of the Korean artist Yun Hyong-keun hung on decaying brick walls in dark spaces of […]
I hold up my hands - S|2 is one of my favourite galleries in Mayfair. Contemporary well-designed interiors over two floors which work best with contemporary art that is sculptural, contrasting and complimenting work on the walls, and providing interesting glimpses out from the ground floor windows. S|2 has now gone one stage further by adding […]
Over £80 million was realised by Sotheby’s this week in its different series of sales from the antique to old masters to drawings and works on paper, proving that, white contemporary art often hugs the headlines, there is still a demand for good quality work from previous masters, including Canaletto, Turner, Constable, de Ribera, Velazquez, […]
The smooth, finely grained and soft rock alabaster is relatively easy to carve and allows the light to shine through it so that its grain and texture can be celebrated. Much prized by the Egyptians in the making of canopic jars and other objects for burials, it was used for windows in Byzantine and Medieval […]
An exam question for you: – You know about Surrealism, Impressionism, Constructivism, Dada, Pop Art, and many other art movements, but what do you know about Signals or Signalism? Probably not a lot….. Signalism was an international movement which developed in Yugoslavia in the 1950′s linking across all the arts including visual art, poetry, technology, […]
Two different artists, with a link about leaving their home country, in addition to their artistic style. Tess Jaray was born in Vienna in 1937, only to leave for England when her parents emigrated in 1938. She came from a creative and scientific family with her father being a chemical engineer and industrial inventor and […]
Contemporary art can be shown to advantage in a variety of settings from modern to historic and two new galleries – within walking distance of each other in Mayfair, London – reinforce this, adding to the variety of international art spaces in the city, but also in their own way breaking current trends in galley […]
"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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