Frank Lloyd Wright's Guggenheim Museum is a beautiful artefact that does nothing for the city around it.
It is impossible to visit Athens and not yearn for the day when Britain decides to right an ancient wrong and show that a beautiful artefact is more than the mere sum of its parts.
I wanted it to be a beautiful artefact and hoped it would create an intellectual space which could accommodate a poem or a whole new screenplay from Tom Stoppard, or a hundred-page interview on Stravinsky or a tiny intervention that had edge and fun.
For despite their beautiful artefacts, the grace of their art and their ancient scripts, the one thread that binds the peoples of antiquity to the humans who live here now, is war.
Most of what I know about history I have learnt from the foreshore, but more precious than all the beautiful artefacts I have found is the peace and solitude it has given me.
Price's first major work, which set the tone for her recent output, was 2007's At the House of Mr X, a tour around beautiful artefacts in a low-lit late-modernist show home.
As the devil patiently demonstrates to Primo, God is an embroidery that continuously stitches itself together out of all the good things in life - delicious food, lovely colours and textures, birds, animals, beautiful artefacts, ourselves in love; but this embroidery is also being continuously unravelled by warmongers, murderers and torturers.
What we are missing now are only 33 objects, are mainly from the late period and I'm very happy to announce that this came to us this morning are very beautiful artefacts from the collection of Tutankhamen.
Birgitta Notloff humbly started this venture by selling her car and still has no guarantee she will be able to keep fundraising to cover the costs the following year, but her passion for female empowerment has enabled this project to impact on numerous women, their families and Sweden as a whole, whilst creating beautiful artefacts.
The hotel has an intimate, relaxed feel to it, but my suite, sparely decorated with beautiful African artefacts, was enormous.
Watching Resnais' these days is like taking a dive to a ghostly and beautiful shipwreck containing artefacts of a civilization that has long since disappeared.
