Category: Exhibition
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Rachel Whiteread at Tate Britain review *****
Rachel Whiteread Tate Britain, 25th September 2017 If you take even a passing interest in contemporary British art you are probably aware of Rachel Whiteread, and you may well have seen some of her work. Even if you are not interested, or are firmly in the nihilistic, hater camp that…
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Encounter drawings at the National Portrait Gallery review ***
The Encounter: Drawings from Leonardo to Rembrandt National Portrait Gallery, 7th September 2017 Short, sweet and eclectic. The exhibition of 50 or so portrait drawings at the NPG contains works by some of the greatest draughtsmen revered by art history from the Renaissance and Baroque, but blink and you might…
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Sargent Watercolours at Dulwich Picture Gallery review *****
Sargent: The Watercolours Dulwich Picture Gallery, 5th September 2017 There have been some top drawer exhibitions already this year. The comprehensive survey of American painting in the 1930s at the Orangerie and Royal Academy, the joyous Rauschenberg retrospective at Tate Modern, the astonishing survey of Michael Andrews’s spray painted landscapes…
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From Selfie to Self-Expression at the Saatchi Gallery review ****
From Selfie to Self-Expression Saatchi Gallery, 20th August 2017 I hadn’t really intended to seek out this exhibition at the Saatchi Gallery. I had forgotten it was on but realised I would be passing when engaged on another mission (taking a twirl around the relatively newly opened National Army Museum,…
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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…
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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…
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Robots at the Science Museum review *****
Robots Science Museum, 7th June 2017 The Robots exhibition at the Science Museum is now around half way into its run (ends 3rd September) and with school holidays done and dusted I figured it was safe to take the plunge and have a look. Mid afternoon slot and near empty…
At Home He Feels Like A Tourist 