A visit to the British Museum including their new Collecting and Empire trail. In which I was underwhelmed by the Museum’s new openness to talk about collecting and colonialism, but at least they’re trying…? The British Museum (Re)Opens Its Doors The British Museum must have been about the last major London institution to reopen. So […]
A review of the Florence Nightingale Museum and its temporary exhibition. In which I began to realise that maybe I don’t need to rush out to every museum that reopens. But I still learned some things I didn’t know before and was glad to see a museum that has fought off closure for now. Can […]
A visit to the Guildhall Art Gallery including a review of the exhibition The Enchanted Interior. In which I learn that all those orientalising Victorian and Pre-Raphaelite paintings may sometimes have more to them than meets the eye! Welcome to the Guildhall Art Gallery and The Enchanted Interior The Guildhall Art Gallery unfortunately only opened […]
A review of London’s Charles Dickens Museum. In which I should probably have got the audioguide, but I didn’t because they’re not my favourite… Welcome to the Charles Dickens Museum The Charles Dickens Museum is just a stone’s throw away from the Foundling Museum. In fact, Dickens was a supporter and fundraiser for the Foundling […]
A review of London’s Foundling Museum. In which I learn a lot about London’s social history, see some interesting paintings and ponder the depiction of pregnancy in British art. Visiting London’s Smaller Museums as Lockdown Eases I have never before visited the Foundling Museum, but took the opportunity of lessening lockdown to go and see […]
Review of National Gallery exhibitions on Titian and Maes. In which the exhibitions are ok, and the National Gallery expects you to know their layout as well as they do Back at the National Gallery By this time, I had been to the Wallace Collection and the Royal Academy. I felt like I was getting […]
Review of the Wallace Collection. In which I am able to consume classic culture first-hand for the first time in many months, and am very happy as a result. Getting Back Into London Culture, Starting with the Wallace Collection Confession: I hadn’t been to the Wallace Collection for over 10 years before my recent trip […]
A new series on the Salterton Arts Review blog, in which I manoeuver around Covid measures to see what arts and culture I can in 2020. We’ve all had a bit more time on our hands recently. And some time to reflect on what we value. Turns out that a big part of what I […]
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’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 […]
