• Review: Man Ray Portraits

    28 February 2013

    Man Ray was certainly in the thick of the artistic milieu of his day and this latest exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery is a panoply of creative glitterati, from a young Le Corbusier through to Catherine Deneuve photographed at the end of the Sixties. It spans a period of more than 50 years beginning in 1916.

  • Preview: Manchester International Festival 2013

    28 February 2013

    Manchester's long abandoned Mayfield Depot - once a railway station - is set to explode into creative high gear this July, with two extraordinary sounding events planned for this summer's International Festival.

  • Floating Cinema relaunching with Extra-Ordinary cargo

    27 February 2013

    Reincarnated after a year-long absence, Up Projects‘ Floating Cinema has had a redesign by Duggan Morris Architects and is relaunching this June.

  • Black Maria by GRUPPE & Richard Wentworth: Video

    27 February 2013

    Black Maria is a temporary presence – at once event space, meeting point, spectacle and screening device – designed by emerging Swiss architectural practice Gruppe and the artist (and longtime local to Kings Cross) Richard Wentworth.

  • Barnaby Barford’s Seven Deadly Sins

    26 February 2013

    Artist and designer Barnaby Barford's latest show opened in London on the February 27th at David Gill. Wall sculpture pieces based around mirrors which allow visitors to see themselves reflected in a surround of each of Barford' interpretation of the seven deadly sins.

  • Pippo Ciorra: On the Road with Gabriele Basilico (1944-2013)

    25 February 2013

    Earlier this year we lost a special figure in the world of architectural photography. Gabriele Basilico will long be an inspiration to those who value the simple yet poetic nuance with which he captured the special character of territory and place, especially in his native Italy. Pippo Ciorra, the director of the prestigious MAXXI museum, wrote this beautiful eulogy on his passing in February; we’re pleased to bring you the exclusive translation here - Eds.

  • Review: Elmgreen & Dragset, Staging Space

    16 February 2013

    Boasting a suitably industrial interior organised around a central studio-atrium, the RCA's Dyson Building is testament to the art school as a factory production line: something which Michael Elmgreen and Ingar Dragset themselves avoided. Having trained in poetry and theatre respectively, the duo - who met in 1995 and were lovers for the first decade of their collaboration - have made a remarkably successful career in contemporary art, often by critiquing the very institutions in which their complex installations and social tableaux have appeared.

  • Croydon’s Urban Pioneers – Part 1

    27 January 2013

    The Architecture Foundation brings its young Urban Pioneers programme to Croydon this Spring. From February to May, a group of 14-17 year olds will spend ten sessions exploring the history, predicament and future of Croydon, one of the most provocative and indeed critical urban centres in the UK today.

  • Blueprint beta goes online!

    14 January 2013

    Welcome to Blueprint’s temporary beta-home online, while we gear up for the relaunch of our website later this spring!

  • Blueprint Meets Lomokino: The Movies

    2 July 2012