Category: Exhibition
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Hope to Nope exhibition at the Design Museum review ****
Hope to Nope: Graphics and Politics 2008-2018 The Design Museum, 2nd April 2018 I have banged on before about how satisfying a trip to the Design Museum can be, for the building, (specifically that beautiful roof), the permanent collection and the exhibitions. Not cheap, though make yourself a child, student,…
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All Too Human at Tate Britain review *****
All Too Human: Bacon. Freud and a Century of Painting Life Tate Britain, 15th March 2018 I love paint. I love painting. I love paintings of people. I love Britain (though I appreciate that is a loaded statement). I love London. I love paintings of London. So, surprise, surprise, I…
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Modigliani at Tate Modern review ***
Modigliani Tate Modern, 5th March 2018 One Modigliani nude or one Modigliani portrait is a thing of not inconsiderable beauty. Less so, one hundred, or what feels like hundreds. The elongated bodies, the mask-like faces, the blank, almond-shaped eyes. Look beyond the USP’s though and the influences, from which Modigliani…
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William Kentridge: Smoke, Ashes, Fable at Sint-Janshospitaal review ****
William Kentridge: Smoke, Ashes, Fable Sint-Janshospitaal, Bruges, 20th February 2018 Off to Bruges and Brussels for a couple of days. Main purpose. To soak up the best paintings that the Northern Renaissance has to offer. Now you all know that it doesn’t get much prettier than Bruges, (though Ghent may…
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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…
At Home He Feels Like A Tourist 