Our Global Village

Friday, September 29, 2006

A new season: contemporary art in focus

A new season: contemporary art in focus
by Margaret Studer
The Wall Street Journal Europe
29 Sep 2006

T Art Forum Berlin HE ADRENALINE is flowing in Europe’s contemporary-art world. Not only is the annual fall roundof art fairsbeginning, butforthe first time auction houses will hold a benchmark series of contemporary and postwar art sales in London... read more...

How the Tibet trek is changing

How the Tibet trek is changing
by James T. Areddy
The Wall Street Journal Europe
29 Sep 2006

FLhasa, China OR TRAVELERS to the sky-high capital of Tibet, the biggest problem used to be altitude sickness. Now, it’s being turned away from its major attraction, the Potala Palace. Those who haven’t made it through the massive red doors by... read more...

Tuesday, September 19, 2006

Tate reveals £12m purchases and blockbusters to come

Tate reveals 12m purchases and blockbusters to come
Charlotte Higgins Arts correspondent
The Guardian
19 Sep 2006

It is a fascinating shopping list. There is the 591,000 spent on a Francis Picabia, and the now infamous 600,000 on a Chris Ofili. Gilbert and George’s Fates cost 130,000, and a 1932 letter to the director of the Tate was bought for 41. Details of... read more...

Monday, September 18, 2006

Lovely sauna, guys — but where’s the architecture?

Lovely sauna, guys — but where’s the architecture?

The Guardian
18 Sep 2006

In Italo Calvino's mesmeric novel Invisible Cities, Marco Polo describes the enchanting, illogical and sometimes dire cities he claims to have visited during his travels through Kubla Khan's huge empire. The Khan is unfazed when Polo reveals that he... read more...

Face values

Face values

Culture
05 Sep 2006

Some of the world’s most recognisable faces will be on show at Sunderland Museum & Winter Gardens this autumn, as The World’s Most Photographed exhibition arrives for a two-month stay. Organised by the National Portrait Gallery in collaboration with... read more...

FOREIGN AFFAIRS

FOREIGN AFFAIRS

Travel
17 Sep 2006

Travel has been my passion ever since I was a boy. We lived in Riddlesden, a small village on the south side of Ilkley Moor, looking across Keighley to Hawarth, the home of the Bront family. When I was at Bradford Grammar School I went for 10 days... read more...

Tuesday, September 12, 2006

For Cabaret, life is a West End battle

For Cabaret, life is a West End battle
Mark Brown Arts correspondent
The Guardian
12 Sep 2006

Mark Brown Arts correspondent In the rehearsal rooms of a new West End production of Cabaret yesterday, the nerves were obvious. “We can’t all survive, that’s a given,” said the apprehensive director, Rufus Norris. His cast takes to the stage in two... read more...

Friday, September 08, 2006

A meeting of minds on New York skyline

A meeting of minds on New York skyline
Ed Pilkington New York
The Guardian
08 Sep 2006

Since the day they met at Yale in 1962 as young architecture students, their paths have followed similar trajectories. Though the partnership, Team 4, they formed soon afterwards ended in 1967, they have moved in tandem, rising to become preeminent... read more...

Thursday, September 07, 2006

Rome

Rome

Travel
02 Sep 2006

ST PETER’S Walk through Rome and you walk with Caesar, Vespasian and more than 250 popes, Michelangelo, Keats and, thank heavens, Anita Ekberg. They’re woven into the fabric. London and most other capitals emphasise their great men and great moments... read more...