I like Tintin. I also fairly unashamedly like things that are designed for children. So it was maybe no surprise that one of the exhibitions that was on my list while I was in Paris was at the Musée en Herbe, a small museum for children celebrating its 40th anniversary this year with an exhibition […]
This is the first exhibition at Buckingham Palace that I’ve been to in five years in London. I think part of that reason may be that they don’t tend to get as much press as other exhibition spaces. This in turn is linked to the fact that the nature of the gallery lends itself to […]
For a start, the space is superb. Not just the building itself, where the exhibitions are in the Roman baths above which is a medieval hôtel for the abbots of Cluny (not a bad town house). The way that the space is used is key to what I felt was the success of this exhibition: […]
Mid-century German artists. Do they get more exhibitions in London than you can shake a stick at, or is that just me? Between Richter, Kiefer, Polke, Baselitz and another couple of heavyweights, they could certainly keep the turnstiles of a willing museum pretty busy. Having said that, this was the first major Polke retrospective I’ve […]
