17 MARCH 1990, page 48

Gardens

The art of landscape Ursula Buchan L andscape gardening, according to my usually trustworthy Shorter Oxford English Dictionary, is 'the art of laying out grounds so as to......

Exhibitions 2

Alison Watt (The Scottish Gallery, London, till 31 March) Eliot Hodgkin 1905-1987: Painter and Collector (Hazlitt, Gooden & Fox, till 10 April) Oddly enough Giles Auty I n April......

Sale-rooms

Japan tips the balance Peter Watson T wo surprises — shocks in a way — in the past two weeks. The first came from.Al Taubman, chairman of Sotheby's, over a drink at the Kuim......