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Category: art

  • 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…

  • The American Dream at the British Museum review ****

    The American Dream: pop to the present British Museum, 31st March 2017 So where can you see a stunning survey of pretty much all the major artists, across all the major movements of modern and contemporary art, in the US over the last seven or so decades. The British Museum…

  • Sussex Modernism at Two Temple Place review ***

    Sussex Modernism: Retreat and Rebellion Two Temple Place, 15th February 2017 Just a quick shout out for this interesting, compact exhibition. For those who don’t know Two Temple Place it is a neo-Gothic, late Victorian mansion on the Embankment built for an Astor and full to the brim of OTT…

  • John Latham at the Serpentine Gallery review ****

    John Latham: A World View Serpentine Gallery, 17th March 2017 in recent years I have had a growing fascination with the “pure” Conceptual Art (only capitals will do here) of the 1960’s and 1970s and the way it appears to have come to influence chunks of today’s artistic discourse. This is…

  • Some ideas for the culturally inclined in London

    So here is a brief list of what is on in London or coming up … and is of interest to me and maybe to you Theatre This is just an update of the following post … with a few new ideas that have cropped up recently Some forthcoming theatre ideas…

  • Michael Andrews and Richard Serra at the Gagosian Galleries London review *****

    Michael Andrews: Earth Air Water ***** Gagosian Gallery, Grosvenor Hill London, 2nd February 2017 Richard Serra: NJ-2, Rounds:Equal Weight, Unequal Measure, Rotate ***** Gagosian Gallery, Britannia Street London, 21st October 2016 Just a very late shout out for two of the most interesting gallery exhibitions currently on in London in…

  • Russian Art at the Royal Academy review ****

    Revolution: Russian Art 1917-1932 Royal Academy of Arts of Arts, 15th March 2017 Right short and sweet I think here. This was fascinating. But maybe less for the art itself and more for the insight into Soviet history. I only had a vague sense of the events that marked the…