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  Catching up (Part 7)

  July 2021 Out West – The Overseas Student – Blue Water and Cold and Fresh – Go, Girl – Lyric Hammersmith – 7th July – ***** Rachel O’Riordan, the AD at the Lyric Hammersmith, might be as good if not better at programming plays as she is directing herself. And…

  January 31, 2023
• art Bible Culture Drawing Exhibition History Installation Landscaoe London Myths Nature Painting Place Power Prints Sculpture Technology

  Rembrandt’s Light at the Dulwich Picture Gallery (and others) review *****

  Rembrandt’s Light Dulwich Picture Gallery, 17th January 2020 The Tourist has been a bit remiss in keeping up the records on art exhibitions over the last few months so in addition to the above he will offer a few thoughts on other visits. Rembrandt‘s Light first. The DPG exhibition space…

  March 7, 2020
• Amsterdam art Culture Drawing Exhibition London Nature Painting Prints

  Van Gogh and Britain at Tate Britain review ****

  Van Gogh and Britain Tate Modern, 30th July 2019 Took me way ages to find the time to see this. And even longer to comment on it. Really what is the point. Especially as even late afternoon on a weekday it was a bun fight with bugger all chance to…

  September 10, 2019
• art Culture Exhibition History London Painting Photography Sculpture Truth War

  Don McCullin exhibition at Tate Britain review ****

  Don McCullin Tate Britain, 1st May 2019 The main event first. The astonishing work of Don McCullin, the renowned “war” photographer, though this epithet doesn’t get close to covering the depth of the work revealed in this retrospective at the Tate, (now finished, sorry). McCullin, now 83, left art college…

  May 14, 2019
• art Painting Sculpture

  Some quick notes on exhibitions visited so far in 2019

  The Tourist has been shockingly remiss so far this year in documenting his adventures in the visual and plastic arts. Some plagiarised comments on the I Am Ashurbanipal survey of Assyrian art at the British Museum aside, I have failed to document any other exhibition visits. So, for the sake…

  May 14, 2019
• Architecture art Birmingham Culture Design Exhibition London Renaissance

  Edward Burne-Jones at Tate Britain review ****

  Edward Burne Jones Tate Britain, 11th November 2018 Turns out Burne-Jones isn’t quite as awful as I had previously thought. Don’t get me wrong. All that hippy-dippy, fey, dreamy. dusky-toned, doe-eyed, ginger-permed, long-bodied, nymph-y, mannequin-esque, briar-strewn, Arthurian, industrialisation-denying, fake-Medieval, cod-Renaissance daubing is still guaranteed to do my head in. But…

  November 25, 2018
• art Culture Exhibition History London Photography Prints War

  Aftermath at Tate Britain review ****

  Aftermath: Art in the Wake of World War One Tate Britain, 29th August 2018 Historians abhor teleology these days. It’s a tricky business identifying events that “changed the history of the world”. For us simple layfolk though the First World War must surely mark a defining shift in the human…

  September 9, 2018
• art Culture Exhibition London

  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…

  March 28, 2018
• art Culture Exhibition London Uncategorized

  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…

  December 5, 2017
• Architecture art Culture Exhibition London

  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…

  October 1, 2017