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Category: art

  • Grayson Perry at the Serpentine Gallery review ****

    Grayson Perry: The Most Popular Art Exhibition Ever! Serpentine Gallery, 8th August 2017 Grayson Perry has set himself up as an “astute commentator on contemporary society” as the blurb for his current exhibition would have it. And very good at it he is too. If you haven’t seen any of…

  • Giacometti at Tate Modern review ****

    Giacometti Tate Modern, 5th July 2017 Alberto Giacometti fitted the bill of the artist perfectly. Day upon day, month upon month, year upon year ploughing the same furrow. To capture the essence of the human form largely through sculpture and occasionally with paint. More than a nod to the representation…

  • British Watercolour Landscapes at the British Museum review ****

    Places of the Mind: British Watercolour Landscapes 1850 to 1950 British Museum, 3rd July 2017 Any right thinking Londoner or visitor thereto knows that time spent in the British Museum (or the V and A for that matter) is never wasted. I have remarked before on the rich run of…

  • Vanessa Bell exhibition at Dulwich Picture Gallery review ***

    Vanessa Bell 1879-1941 Dulwich Picture Gallery, 3rd June 2017 Sun shining. Dulwich Park at play. Bit of a picnic then off to the Vanessa Bell retrospective with SO, BUD and KCK. This is London. It won’t go away. Dulwich PG does a fine job in bringing together thoughtfully curated exhibitions…

  • 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…

  • Some ideas for the culturally inclined in London

    Here is a very brief round-up, (apparently I can drone on a bit so have tried to be disciplined), of the current and forthcoming major theatre and exhibition events in London that have caught my eye (and ear). I have a list of classical concerts which is still good to go…

  • David Hockney at Tate Britain review ****

    David Hockney Tate Britain, 2nd May 2017 OK so this is embarrassing so I will get it out of the way. I didn’t really know David Hockey’s works beyond a cursory glance at a handful of works in permanent collections and some mixed exhibitions and didn’t really know what all…

  • Creating Modernism in France at the Ashmolean Museum review ****

    Degas to Picasso: Creating Modernism in France The Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, 20th April 2017 So a day trip to the Ashmolean to take in this exhibition and a bit of the mighty Ashmolean’s permanent collection, (favourites include the Sickert room, the Medieval English collection and the Chinese ceramics and art).…

  • Eduardo Paolozzi at the Whitechapel Gallery review ****

    Eduardo Paolozzi Whitechapel Gallery, 6th April 2017 I guess most Londoners will be familiar with Eduardo Paolozzi’s work from his monumental public sculptures such as Newton outside the British Library, The Head of Invention outside the gorgeous new Design Museum,  a Vulcan on Royal Victoria Dock and the mosaics now restored to…

  • Wolfgang Tillmans at Tate Modern review ****

    Wolfgang Tillmans: 2017 Tate Modern, 9th March 2017 Oh my giddy aunt. What to make of this. I am slowly clambering my way up the shaky but intriguing edifice that is contemporary art. I have a rough map in my head but still have a long way to go and…