Thursday, October 8th, 2009
To mark the start of the Biennial Art Nouveau Event in Brussels, we take in some of the city’s most impressive buildings Brussels is rightly famed for its Art Nouveau architecture – this was the home of architects Victor Horta and Paul Hankar, after all, who are credited with designing the two first Art Nouveau buildings in the world: Horta’s Hotel Tassel and Hankar’s own house. More than 1,000 …
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Ten architectural gems in Brussels (Guardian Unlimited)
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Friday, September 11th, 2009
Horace Walpole, connoisseur, art historian, gossip, and author of 4,000 of the bitchiest and wittiest letters of the 18th century, would have been mighty surprised to see a six foot gilded weather vane lowered from a crane onto the tower of his extraordinary home this week, 212 years after his death.
Continue here: Home of Gothic revival restored (Guardian Unlimited)
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Sunday, August 30th, 2009
Adored by celebrities like Sienna Miller and Kate Moss, and creator of the much-copied boho look, Matthew Williamson has gone from teenage prodigy to world-famous designer in the classic rags-to-riches dream. As he returns to show at London Fashion Week, he tells Carole Cadwalladr why he still feels like a working-class boy from Manchester It’s a bit like entering into a magical fairy kingdom …
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Just Williamson (Guardian Unlimited)
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Friday, August 14th, 2009
Glistening girls and the misty outlines of regal gardens effervesce in Silke Otto-Knapp’s watercolours. On show at Modern Art Oxford , her paintings’ muted grey wash is powdered down with silver, so that foreground and background glide together.
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Exhibitionist: The best art shows to see this week (Guardian Unlimited)
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Wednesday, August 12th, 2009
Is an Alexander Calder by the pool in Provence your idea of hotel heaven? Or would you rather look at a Beryl Cook in the breakfast room of a Blackpool B&B?
More here: What’s your art hotel heaven? (Guardian Unlimited)
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Wednesday, August 12th, 2009
Alexander Calder’s surreal poolside mobile at the Colombe d’Or, Provence. Photograph: Mark Bolton/Corbis Cy Twombly’s painting Bacchus is a fleshy cascade of red painted spirals – or are they half-formed letters? – on a canvas nearly five metres wide.
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A night with an old master (Guardian Unlimited)
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Monday, July 20th, 2009
“Look, Spot! Look and see… .”
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Enchanted places: Decorating with kids’ book art (The Victoria Advocate)
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Tuesday, July 14th, 2009
We know this might be a shock, but you can actually find freebies and deals in Georgetown, via Wednesday happy hour discounts.
More here: Get Happy in Georgetown (Yes, It’s Possible) (NBC Washington)
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Monday, July 6th, 2009
The focus at this minimalist menswear store in Chinatown is a brilliant mix of under-the-radar international labels.
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Now Open: Project No. 8b (NBC New York)
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Monday, June 1st, 2009
The Orange prize favourite explains why ‘the small drama of conversation’ is more interesting to her than adventures writers ‘have read about in a brochure’ The small town of Gilead, in which two of Marilynne Robinson’s three novels are set, is “a dogged little outpost” in Iowa, where her characters live modestly and scorn themselves for staying put. They don’t go anywhere, do anything, see …
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A life in writing: Marilynne Robinson (Guardian Unlimited)
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