Category: Exhibition
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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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Opera: Passion, Power and Politics exhibition at the V&A review ****
Opera: Passion, Power and Politics V&A, 13th November 2017 You can’t seem to navigate on t’Internet, (all right, the bit that isn’t hate, porn or celebrity, which doesn’t leave much), for confessionals from opera lovers telling you how they came to love the “queen”, or is it “king”, of art…
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Jasper Johns at the Royal Academy review ***
Jasper Johns “Something Resembling Truth” Royal Academy of Arts. 10th November 2017 So here’s my theory. Sometime in the mid 1970s the real Jasper Johns was kidnapped by aliens and replaced with a cloned doppelganger. All the AI software was packed in but they forgot to prevent him from clicking…
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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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Scythians exhibition at the British Museum ****
Scythians: Warriors of Ancient Siberia British Museum, 2nd November 2017 I have been bowled over by most of the recent exhibitions I have seen at the British Museum, covering the history of Sicily, the art of South Africa, US modernist art printmaking, (The American Dream at the British Museum review ****),…
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Soutine’s Portraits at the Courtauld Gallery review ****
Soutine’s Portraits: Cooks, Waiters and Bellboys Courtauld Gallery, 31st October 2017 I am afraid that the joys of Soutine’s paintings have passed me by in the past. I could see the vibrant colours and intense animation but all that skew-whiffedness left me a bit bewildered. On my last visit to…
At Home He Feels Like A Tourist 