In May 1939, nearly 75 years ago, the celebrated American architect Frank Lloyd Wright visited London and gave four lectures at the RIBA. The meetings were hailed at the time as ‘perhaps the most remarkable events of recent architectural affairs in England. No architectural speaker in London has ever in living memory gathered such audiences.’ With great […]
Monthly Archives: January 2014
27 January marks both Holocaust Memorial Day in the UK and International Holocaust Remembrance Day. The date was chosen because it was on 27 January 1945 that Soviet Union troops liberated the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp. The slogan of the Holocaust Memorial Day Trust is ‘Learning lessons from the past to create a safer, better future’. In […]
The art dealer versus the art-market journalist. In the lecture theatre of the London Art Fair last week the scene was set for some vigorous debating. Melanie Gerlis, Art Market editor of The Art Newspaper, had just published a book which dared to question the value of art as an investment, and she was being pitted against […]
We are delighted to be sponsoring London Art Fair for the second time this year, as we kick off a year of events to celebrate 75 years of art-book publishing. Opening to the public this morning and running at the Business Design Centre in Islington until Sunday 19 January, London Art Fair is the leading […]
Modern British Artists 