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 […]
Another popular exhibition at the Courtauld Gallery, this time focusing on Seurat and the Sea. More From the Neo-Impressionists I’m not sure I’ve been in the position before of seeing two exhibitions in quick succession which had such commonalities they even featured some of the same paintings. Or at least one of the same paintings: […]
Stereotypes about London’s Latinx community are well and truly subverted in heist caper-meets-identity politics piece My Uncle is Not Pablo Escobar. My Uncle Is Not Pablo Escobar If you are going to make space onstage for Latinx women in South East London, you might as well enjoy yourself. My Uncle is Not Pablo Escobar at […]
A final Salterton Arts Review stop in Vienna as we visit the hugely influential Secession exhibition building, to see some contemporary art and Klimt’s wonderful Beethoven Frieze. A Final Stop in Vienna The Secession (or Secession Building, or Secession Museum, or Vienna Secession) is an institution I didn’t quite have on my list to visit […]
A visit to Vienna provided an opportunity to compare the museums devoted to the life and work of Sigmund Freud. Branching Out From the Habsburgs The anti-imperialists amongst you can rejoice! After visiting the Kunsthistorisches Museum, the Kaisergruft and the Prunksaal (State Room of the Austrian National Library), we are done with Viennese cultural institutions […]
