Luxury

Exhibition: 14 May – 4 September 2013, RIBA, 66 Portland Place, W1. Free admission
Accompanied by an ‘Out of India’ series of talks and events including a special Mumbai ‘Last Tuesday’ evening on 25 June
 
Curated by Dr Irena Murray with exhibition design by David Adjaye
 
Celebrating the gift of Charles Correa’s archive to the RIBA Library

Fascinating Hangzhou city, on China’s east coast close to Shanghai, welcomed back at the beginning of the month the internationally acclaimed ‘Impression West Lake’ staged production and nightly spectacular.  The one-hour show of local legends and myths is presented in five seamless acts and was nominated for a Grammy Award in 2009 in the USA for original score.  It is open-air theatre at its best with lavish sets, lighting displays and hundreds of costumed performers gliding over the lake in synchronized choreography (the stage is a few centimetres below water level).  The ultimate ode to

The Armory Show New York 2013
and New York Arts Week
March 6 - 10
New York Arts Week opened Wednesday, March 6 and continued through March 10. 
Besides The Armory Show 10 satellite art fairs took place in New York during The New York Arts Week.
The Armory Show celebrated 100 years since its legendary show of 1913.
For the first time we saw a fair dedicated to contemporary Russian, Baltic, and East European Art – 
The Russian Pavilion NY.

Nine Elms on the South Bank is at MIPIM – visit the model in the London Pavilion   With 26 development sites under construction or in the planning pipeline, Nine Elms on the South Bank is the UK’s biggest regeneration programme:   ·         £1 billion Northern line extension financing guarantee from the UK Government   ·         16,000 new homes with planning consent   ·         6.4million sq ft commercial space with planning consent   ·         Five major projects now under construction – including the first 3,000 homes   Nine Elms on the South Bank is the £1 5billion opportunity area betw

Victoria Gallardo, Founder & Creative Partner, Creative Orchestra:
In advertising they say the pen is mightier than the sword. I'll take on anyone armed with a pen. And watch them run!
Dr Cecilia d'Felice's psychological interpretation:

Trevor Chambers, Executive CD, Start Creative:

Tom Evans, CD, Sapient Nitro:
Keep it simple
Dr Cecilia d'Felice's psychological interpretation:
This relaxed composition suggests a man who is at ease with himself and the world. In this monochrome there is a sense of nostalgia, redolent of times less frantic and a chance to sit, talk and think.

Suzanne Dean, CD, Random House:
Rodchenko wrote: "One has to take several different shots of a subject, from different points of view and in different situations, as if one examined it in the round rather than looked through the same key-hole again and again."
 
I took inspiration from my love of Rodchenko’s innovative, graphic photographs.  I wanted a portrait that was both simple and complex at the same time. That incorporated his use of contrast and experimental perspective.