Category Archive: Art & Architecture

Searching for Frida and Diego

Searching for Frida and Diego

Búsqueda del Elefante y La Paloma, strolling D.F. in search of Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera, Mexico’s greatest twentieth century painters. Have been commissioned to …

 

Seizure: brave the crystal maze

Seizure: brave the crystal maze

Seizure sign Rather underwhelming expedition to Elephant & Castle to finally catch Roger Hiorns’s heavily hyped “urban sculptural project”. The concept is genius, the end result …

 

Richard Serra at Gagosian Gallery, Kings Cross

Richard Serra at Gagosian Gallery, Kings Cross

Arguably the most significant figure in contemporary sculpture, the American Richard Serra has filled Larry Gagosian’s warehouse space with three vast new steel works. They …

 

Damien Hirst at Sotheby’s: rewriting the rules

Damien Hirst at Sotheby’s: rewriting the rules

Spent an hour in Sotheby’s on Bond Street today, marvelling at the stunning collection of Damien Hirst artworks on display ahead of next week’s unprecedented …

 

Hadrian at the British Museum

Hadrian at the British Museum

We all know the Wall. Stretches all the way from Newcastle to Carlisle. Built from AD122 to keep my ferocious Pictish ancestors away from Hadrian’s …