Publications in English
TV
2000 Years. The History of the Church. 3.The Third Century AD in Rome, ITV 2.Mai 1999.
Internet
2 Articles/Interviews for sothebys.com
numerous contributions for artsworld.com:
Architecture:
New Capitals
The Parthenon. A Temple with a Difference
The History of Formal Gardens
Tulipmania. How Flowers nearly wrecked a Country
Innovate, innovate, innovate. Interview with Arup Engineers
A Persian Palace on Holland Park Road
Metabolism in Japan
Steiner House
The Hellfire Club
Jessica Cargill Thompson, 40 Architects
Will Aslop at the Soane
Louis Hellman, Archi-Tetes
2001. An Architectural Odyssey (RIBA Architecture Gallery)
Argentina Architecture 1880-2004
A short Abstract about Concrete (Barbican)
Architecture and Film
Big in Japan. Fumihiko Maki
Labyrinthine Ways to Amaze
Claire Melhuish, Moidern House
From Modernism to Ma (RIBA)
Deyan Sudjic, John Pawson
A Mendelssohn on the Sussex Coast
Accommodating Change
The Eden Project
The Great Court
Carnforth Station
Wapping Station
Under Construction. Toyo Ito's Sendai Mediathèque
The Williamson Tunnels in Liverpool
Literature:
The Nibelungen Saga
Georg Klein, Libidissi
Judith Hermann, Summer House later
N Shakespeare, Bruce Chatwin
Duong Thu Hong
Furio Monicelli, The Perfect Jesuit
Andrei Makine, Requiem for the East
Panos Karnezis, Little Infamies
WG Sebald, Austerlitz
Micheline Aharonian Marco, Three Apples
Ismail Kadere, Three Elegies
Interview with Carlos Fuentes
Interview with Rohinton Mistry
Review of Thomas Keneally's American Scoundrel
Tom Ambrose, Hitler's Loss
Agatha Christie and Archaeology
Sandor Marai, Embers
Claudio Magris, Danube
Jeffrey Moore, The Red-Rose Chain
Art:
Russian Art Revolution
Interview with Dr Zimmermann, Austrian Cultural Forum
Sculpture Parks in the UK
A Rubens re-discovered:
Interview with Atom Egoyan
Schuiten, The Obscure Cities
Jeff Nuttall, Art and the Degradation of Awareness
Interview with Jeff Nutall
Rosamond E Mack, Bazaar to Piazza (book review)
Cleopatra. From History to Myth (British Museum)
Art and Dictatorship (H Moore Foundation Leeds)
The London Photographic Awards
Malcolm Morley (Hayward Gallery)
Outsider Art (Orleans House Gallery)
The Queen of Sheba (British Museum)
Antony Penrose, Roland Penrose. The Friendly Surrealist (book review)
Some like it Cold (book review)
Transition: The London Art Scene in The Fifties (Barbican Gallery)
Interview with David Juda
Blackwell House
Glass Aquarium
Shinto (British Museum)
Ballet and Dance:
Dancing on the Edge: Bejart Ballet
Persian Dance
The Top 5 Ballerinas
The Top 5 Male Dancers
Adzido
Adventures in Motion Pictures
Awa Odori. The Japanese Samba
Butoh. The Dance of Darkness
Gumboot Dance
Interview with James Putnam: The Isadora Duncan Tribute
Alvin Ailey (Sadler's Wells)
ARC, The Art of Storytelling
Birmingham Royal Ballet, Arthur, Part 1 (Sadler's Wells)
Rambert Dance Company, She was Black, The Parades Gone By (Sadler's Wells)
ENB, Romeo and Juliet (Royal albert Hall)
Ballet Trocks (Peacock Theatre)
Birmingham Royal Ballet, Swan Lake (Sadler's Wells)
Ian Driver, A Century of Dance (book review)
Three (The Place)
Dutch National Ballet (Sadler's Wells)
ENB Anniversary Gala
NBT Madame Butterfly
Red Shoes (BAC)
Sankai Juku
Tap Dogs
Richard Alston Dance Company, Tremor Fever Roughcut (QEH)
Film:
Interview with Anna Tchernakova
Interview with Joce Capper
Interview with Robin Baker
Height of Summer
Italian for Beginners
Mother India
Shadow of the Vampire
Music:
Interview with Peter Phillips
Castrati
Top Pianists
Bollywood Brass Band
Dangerous Graces
Jerry Springer Opera (BAC)
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (Sadler's Wells)
Maschinist Hopkins
Rough Guide to Bollywood
Rough Guide to the Alps
Theatre:
The Historic King Lear
The Kneehigh Theatre of Cornwall
The Good Woman of Setzuan NT-Cottesloe)
Humble Boy (Gielgud)
Japes
Noises Off
Odyssey
Shockheaded Peter
A Prayer for Owen Meany (Lyttelton)
RSC Richard II (Barbican Pit)
Articles
Botticelli's Muse
The Golden Ass
Ecstasy in Late Imperial Rome, HISTORY TODAY 10, 1998, 27-33; also in: R.L.Lembright (ed.), Western Civilization I. The Earliest Civilisations Through the Reformation, McGrawHill 2003, p.87-91.
Chariot Racing in the Ancient World, HISTORY TODAY 12, 1997, 41-48.
Restitution in unified Germany, Art Newspaper IX 81, Mai 1998, 41.
Book Reports (Heinemann, Harvill Press)
Norbert Kron, Autopilot
Martin Doerry, Mein verwundetes Herz
Veit Heinichen, Die Toten vom Karst
Jörg Bernig, Niemandszeit
Reinhard Kaiser/Margarete Holzman, Dies Kind soll leben
Wilhelm Genazino, Ein Regenschirm für diesen Tag
Tom Lampert, Ein einziges Leben
Andreas Schendel, Fluchtpunkt
Sky Nonhoff, Die dunklen Säle
Inka Parei, Die Schattenboxerin
Jörg Friedrich, Der Brand
Hanna Johansen, Lena
Yade Kara, Selam Berlin
Veit Heinichen, Gib jedem seinen eigenen Tod
Juri Rytchëu, Die Suche nach der letzten Zahl
Juri Rytchëu, Traum im Polarnebel
Stefan Klein, Die Glücksformel
Translations
David Kennedy und Bob Bewley, Aerial Archaeology in Jordan für ANTIKE WELT.
Catalogue texts, presse- & marketing material Sotheby's London.
Various
Book preparation: G. Budd, Celebration of the Turf 1997, J.B. Baccard, Tribal Art 1998.
© Dirk Bennett 2003