A small, free exhibition, Shattered Glass of Beirut shines a light on a small story of hope from a catastrophic event. Shattered Glass of Beirut I’ve reviewed one room exhibitions at the National Gallery a number of times (see here, here or here), but never at the British Museum. And yet this is another museum […]
A review of Matisse: The Red Studio, an interesting small-scale exhibition at New York’s Museum of Modern Art (MoMA). Back in New York, And Straight To MoMA After a long weekend in Chicago, I had an opportunity recently to spend a few days in New York. Art and culture were not the primary objectives of […]
A review of a free exhibition on now at the National Gallery. Bellotto: The Königstein Views Reunited is a good opportunity to see how this celebrated Venetian artist approached an unusual German commission. Bellotto’s Königstein Views I am really getting into these one-room exhibitions at the National Gallery in London. Last year I saw Sin, […]
Let me preface this by saying I’m a massive (and proud) history geek, but it’s hard to underestimate how impressive it is seeing all of the bits usually missing from archaeological exhibitions and museum displays. The wood, the fabrics, the leather, the hair: the things that are normally inferred from the lack of them (an […]