I absolutely love this painting by Mikhail Nemtsov of The Communal House of the
Textile Institute
[http://architectuul.com/architecture/communal-house-of-the-textile-institute]
in Moscow.
Designed by Ivan Sergeevich Nikolaev and completed in 1931, it
Back in the day, I probably knew more about the modern movement in Dutch
architecture, Het Nieuwe Bouwen, than just about anything else. Had I been asked
to select a specialist subject to
Earlier this year at the Gagosain gallery in London, there was a rather
dissonant exhibition, Crash, of artworks notionally inspired or reflective of
the work of JG Ballard. A highlight for me was
Recently I picked up the second issue of the design newspaper Unit: Design/
Research from Unit Editions [http://www.uniteditions.com/], edited by Tony Brook
and Adrian Shaughnessy.
The second issue, titled '
The current exhibition Crash at the Gagosian is a mish-mash of artworks, by a
stellar cast of artists, with a vaguely 'Ballardian' connatation, however
tenuous (I'm still struggling to
