News & Comment
CONTEMPORARY ART
Around the galleries
Now in its 30th year, the London Park Lane Arms Fair returns with its annual array of fine arms and armoury. Elsewhere in the capital, impressive surveys of Freud, Hirst and mid-century British art can be found.
ARCHITECTURE
Architecture
George Gilbert Scott described the dome as ‘the noblest of all forms’, and it appears as a powerful symbol in secular and religious architecture throughout history. On the island of Malta, however, the craze for dome-building reached astonishing heights.
February 2012
From the archives
Charles Saatchi has claimed, somewhat controversially, that collectors today lack discernment, but it’s not a new argument. Turner’s patron, the Earl of Egremont, also made some poor choices, wrote Richard Walker in January 1953.
January 2012
From the archives
A show at Brooklyn Museum presents the work of the key American artists of the 1920s, yet it seems recognition came later for many of them. Aside from Stefan Hirsch, all appear unknown to Walter Sinclair, writing in 1925.
January 2012
Around the galleries
The New Year begins with a wealth of international events and shows, including Master Drawings New York and India Art Fair. In the UK, 20th-century and contemporary work can be found at the London Art Fair.
November 2011
Collectors’ Focus
The European trade in fine antique Tang, Song, Ming and Qing ceramics has been strong for over five centuries. But the last half decade has a seen a surge in demand by newly wealthy Chinese collectors.
November 2011
Around the galleries
Paris Tableau, a brand new fair dedicated to Old Master paintings, opens in the French capital, while the autumn fairs’ season sees a host of international events in Amsterdam, Cologne, Vienna, London and New York
December 2011
Architecture
New Delhi was inaugurated in 1931, just 16 years before the fall of the British Raj. Long dismissed as grandiose imperial pomp, it is only in recent years that Lutyens’ elegant fusion of Western classicism with Eastern features has been triumphed.
November 2011
Architecture
Buckinghamshire is the unlikely setting for a French château, but it has been home to the Rothschilds in England since 1874. Today, Waddesdon Manor continues to grow, with the addition of architect Stephen Marshall’s gallery complex on Windmill Hill.