Category: art
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Ilya and Emilia Kabakov at Tate Modern review ****
Not Everyone Will Be Taken Into The Future: Ilya and Emilia Kabakov Tate Modern, 19th January 2018 I know it is not easy to make out but take a good peer at the image above. This is an installation created in 1985 by Russian conceptual artist, Ilya Kabakov. The Man…
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Red Star Over Russia at Tate Modern review ****
Red Star Over Russia: A Revolution in Visual Culture 1905-55 Tate Modern, 19th January 2018 I have always coveted a collection. I mean a proper collection. I have a fair few CDs, (I have bought maybe 6 or 7 download only albums in my life – not having a physical…
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Bomberg at Pallant House Gallery review *****
Bomberg Pallant House Gallery, 9th January 2017 Best British painter of the twentieth century? The mighty triumvirate of Francis Bacon, Lucian Freud and David Hockney from the second half of the century certainly would be in with a shout, though Bacon is easy to admire though sometimes hard to like, and Hockney…
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Cezanne Portraits exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery review *****
Cezanne Portraits National Portrait Gallery, 14th December 2017 Frankly they could have hung the 50 or so paintings here upside down and turned the lights off. I would still have given it 5 stars. It’s Cezanne. The painter who showed all the other painters who have come since how to…
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Dali/Duchamp at the Royal Academy review ***
Dali/Duchamp Royal Academy, 29th December 2017 I don’t really get Salvador Dali. Maybe it is the over-familiarity with images of his work. Maybe it is the obviousness of the in-yer-face Freudian, symbolism. Maybe it is the flat, lifeless effect of his paintings. Maybe it is the fact that once he…
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Impressionists in London at Tate Britain review ***
The EY Exhibition: Impressionists in London: French Artists in Exile 1870-1914 Tate Modern, 30th November 2017 Would I pay £17.70, the full adult price to see this. Hmm. Maybe. Different story if you are a member, (as you should be if you can afford it), but, if not, I’d say…
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Age of Terror exhibition at the IWM review ***
Age of Terror: Art since 9/11 Imperial War Museum London, 24th November 2017 The IWM has a splendid collection of war art which is always worth seeing and reflecting on when it is exhibited. Here the curating team has assembled 50 or so works from 40 or so artists to…
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Natural Selection exhibition at the Former Newington Library review *****
Andy Holden and Peter Holden: Natural Selection Artangel at the Former Newington Library, 24th November 2017 This might just be the best exhibition I have seen this year. The Former Newington Library was new to me I confess, and reeks of institutional instruction, which matched the tone of this “installation”…
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Monochrome: Painting in Black and White exhibition at the National Gallery review ****
Monochrome: Painting in Black and White National Gallery, 22nd November 2017 For as long as there has been Western art there has been black and white painting. Used in preparation for works in colour, to heighten the impact of light on a subject, to “imitate” other art forms such as…
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