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Decorative art takes centre stage at the Walker; this month sees the official opening of the Craft and Design Gallery, at the Walker, Liverpool, the museum's The Walker's new Craft and Design Gallery forms part of a major and unfolding project. Funded by the Heritage Lottery Fund, the European Regional Development ......(Continue Reading) Richard Deacon: Marian Goodman Gallery There's a kind of sculpture that makes some people feel like wusses--an art of resistant materials, mighty force, dangerous tools--but there's always ......(Continue Reading)Enlightened royal patronage: an exhibition at the Queen's Gallery, London, reveals the full extent of the artistic patronage of George III and Queen Charlotte George III was a monarch of the Enlightenment and the superb exhibition at the Queen's Gallery demonstrates not only the extraordinarily wide range of his interests and enthusiasm bur also the way...(Continue Reading)Golden Boughs: why Jin Chen was the natural choice to design the Huntington's new Chinese Garden - Buzz - Huntington Library, Art Gallery and Botanical CHINESE GARDENS ARE DESIGNED to engage the imagination as well as the senses, so it's probably fitting that I am standing in a trampled field on the ......(Continue Reading)Cottier and Company, art furniture makers The term "Art Furniture" was coined by the English designer and art critic Charles Locke Eastlake (1836-1906) in 1868 and came to signify the response ......(Continue Reading)
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