The Staatsgalerie Stuttgart was the main draw for me in coming to the capital of Baden-Württemberg. Did it live up to expectations? Read on to find out. A Museum-Focused Visit to Stuttgart I got around a bit on my recent trip to Germany. Starting in Berlin for a non-museological event, I made time to see […]
The Salterton Arts Review turns lemons into lemonade or, in this case, turns an extended train delay into a walking tour around the German city of Halle. Hello, Halle! If my recent trip to Germany had all gone according to plan, this post would not exist! I started in Berlin, ostensibly for a race but […]
The German Museum of Technology covers a lot of ground in its immense exhibition space, from horses and carts to networks to shipping, textiles, aviation, printing… If you can name it, as a technology, I’m pretty sure it’s here somewhere. A Return Trip to Berlin About two years after my last visit, I was lucky […]
A piece of music that still sounds shockingly modern, Turangalîla: Infinite Love at the Southbank Centre combined Messaien’s music played by the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra with projections by 1927 Studios inspired by the era of silent film. Turangalîla: Infinite Love For me, the draw for Turangalîla: Infinite Love was not actually the music, intially, but […]
A very nice little exhibition at Sir John Soane’s Museum, Vanbrugh: The Drama of Architecture introduces the “starchitect” to new audiences, and shows off the museum’s wonderful collection of drawings. An Architects’ Architect I really like the way this exhibition opens. Sir John Soane’s Museum isn’t a big space. And if you’ve been there you’ll […]
Sparks fly in the National Theatre’s production of Les Liaisons Dangereuses, thanks to the chemistry between its leads. Les Liaisons Dangereuses What is it these days with the National Theatre? It can’t be that every play, if produced in a fitting manner, is naturally three hours long. So what gives? Unless it’s me? Maybe going […]
A nice little exhibition at the Courtauld, The Painted Tower: Conservation in Context at Longthorpe focuses on their educational work and efforts to record, preserve and restore medieval wall paintings. The Painted Tower Oh I do love a little academic exhibition. I was at the Courtauld Gallery to see Seurat and the Sea. I didn’t […]
For once I found myself wishing a British Museum was a little busier, as I want a lot of people to see Hawai’i: A Kingdom Crossing Oceans. The British Museum Showcases Hawaiian Culture and History Can you believe it? When I write about exhibitions at the British Museum, it’s almost always to complain uncharitably that […]
Secrets will out in Kit Withington’s Heart Wall, a drama which explores the cost of grief and silence. Heart Wall Heart Wall begins before it begins. As you enter, you’re invited to scan a QR code, add a karaoke song to the list and – if you’re feeling brave – perform it. It’s a generous, […]
A lovely small exhibition at the Wallace Collection explores the WWII period: how the collections were safeguarded, and the uses to which Hertford House was put during wartime. The Wallace Collection at War I little thought, when I came to the Wallace Collection recently to see Caravaggio’s Cupid, that I would be back again so […]
