The Tate Britain has recently undergone a ‘sorely needed’ rehang, which Andrew Lambirth explores in this week’s Spectator. As a ‘welcome return to the great tradition of the chronological hang’ might have its detractors, but the BP Walk Through British Art is, overall, a fantastic display. Here’s the director of Tate Britain, Penelope Curtis (who was in charge of the reorganisation) talking about her highlights from the display. And here are Andrew Lambirth’s own highlights.
Has sod you architecture finally ‘put on a lounge suit’ asks Stephen Bayley. That, at least, was the dress code that Richard Rogers applied to the opening of his new retrospective, Inside Out, at the Royal Academy. There can be no doubting Rogers’ ‘stand-out credentials’ as an architect, but has his work now become so accepted as to be an English tradition? Rogers might have rejected his own dress code (in favour of a green shirt and ‘DayGlo pink sneakers’), but his sheer ‘wilful expression’ is less shocking than it once was.
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