A River of Time, a Warehouse of Cultures
Encountering 5 objects of Rhinelandian origin at a visit to the new V&A East Storehouse, London – and a quiet question mark. By Charlotte Desaga
In the East London’s Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park, a new institution is reimagining the very soul of the museum. The V&A East Storehouse, built within the former London 2012 Olympics Media Centre, represents a radical departure from traditional museum practice. Part of the Victoria and Albert Museum – Britain’s world-renowned weiterlesen
“Weather is a Third to Place and Time”
Ian Hamilton Finlay’s Poetry of Landscape by Charlotte Desaga. Little Sparta, Stonypath, Dunsyre, Scottland & Ian Hamilton Finlay Park, Grevenbroich, Germany
In the quiet hills of South Lanarkshire, Scotland, an artistic vision unfolds in a garden known for its intellectual charge. This is Little Sparta, the life’s work of Ian Hamilton Finlay.
The Scottish artist began his career as a poet and became known in the 1960s for pioneering concrete poetry in Britain. His early weiterlesen
