During a recent and brief trip to Paris, I took in two exhibitions on artists I was not at all familiar with. The first was on František Kupka, and the second, at the Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, was a retrospective of the work of Jean Fautrier. Whereas, if you go to a […]
I recently went to Cuba. Not primarily for reasons of heritage tourism, more for reasons of wanting to have a holiday in the sun, see somewhere different, drink mojitos, and practice the Spanish I’ve been learning. But nonetheless I did visit some historic sites, museums and other cultural spots, as well as doing a couple […]
I don’t know whether it’s me who needs to adjust my expectations, or curators who need to start planning their exhibitions around me, but at the moment I’m finding a number of exhibitions are missing the opportunity to ‘tell a story’. Last time it was the Charles I exhibition at the RA which was arranged […]
This was a nice exhibition, leaving out the drama and focusing on displaying a good mix of high-profile loans and Tate collection works. I’ve pretty much left it too late for any of you to go and see it after reading this review (it closes today, sorry!), so instead I want to do a quick […]
Let me save you the trouble of reading reviews when deciding whether to go and see this small exhibition at the National Gallery. Critics don’t like it. This review in the Guardian is particularly entertaining, and likens Pre-Raphaelite art in the UK’s regional gallery collections to a fatberg (I love a vicious review, don’t you?). […]
For once I’m not going to subject this exhibition to my museological musings. No scrutiny here, it was too sweet and nice and reminiscent of childhood. I would recommend going to see Winnie-the-Pooh at the V&A though: it’s fun, playful, far less boring than many exhibitions of drawings I’ve seen, and really well set up […]
I didn’t like this exhibition. There, I’ve said it. And I had been looking forward to it, too, after reading five star reviews in various publications. There are some showstopping paintings, if you’re into old masters, a few recognisable works, and a lot of loans from big hitting collections like the Louvre and the Prado, […]
I’m going to make a big call here: the London Mithraeum, which straddles a line between public and private in the basement of a City office tower, is somehow the best interpreted archaeological site I think I’ve ever seen. And this despite the fact that the cult of Mithras hardly appears in contemporary written records […]
Those with around £20 and a few hours in London to spare this weekend should get themselves to the National Portrait Gallery, where the exhibition Cézanne Portraits is due to close on Sunday. The exhibition is organised by the Musée d’Orsay and the National Gallery of Art in Washington as well as the National Portrait Gallery, and […]
