Category: Architecture
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Designs of the Year 2017 at the Design Museum review ****
Beazley Designs of the Year 2017 The Design Museum, 8th November 2017 If you have any interest in design you are probably on to this but, if not, you should be. This is the tenth year of the exhibition, now held in the basement of the Design Museum’s plush new…
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Rachel Whiteread at Tate Britain review *****
Rachel Whiteread Tate Britain, 25th September 2017 If you take even a passing interest in contemporary British art you are probably aware of Rachel Whiteread, and you may well have seen some of her work. Even if you are not interested, or are firmly in the nihilistic, hater camp that…
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Sargent Watercolours at Dulwich Picture Gallery review *****
Sargent: The Watercolours Dulwich Picture Gallery, 5th September 2017 There have been some top drawer exhibitions already this year. The comprehensive survey of American painting in the 1930s at the Orangerie and Royal Academy, the joyous Rauschenberg retrospective at Tate Modern, the astonishing survey of Michael Andrews’s spray painted landscapes…
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Howard Hodgkin at the National Portrait Gallery review ***
Howard Hodgkin: Absent Friends National Portrait Gallery, 18th May 2017 I haven’t really known what to make of the work of Howard Hodgkin who sadly passed away just before this exhibition began (having been involved in its creation). And I am still not sure what to make of it. This…
At Home He Feels Like A Tourist 