The Barbican’s latest monographic exhibition is a wonderful tribute to Noah Davis, a talented and thought-provoking artist who kept pushing his creative boundaries. Noah Davis: an Introduction The striking thing as I look around the familiar Barbican gallery space is how varied the works are. I mean, a lot of the exhibitions they stage here […]
Get it all off your chest during International Women’s Month by visiting Scream Along, a participatory installation in an unusual space in Deptford. Scream Along Last weekend was an excellent time for thought-provoking interactive experiences. On Saturday I saw Where We Meet, a dance theatre production combining technology and human connection. And on Sunday I […]
Now this is more like it: the Royal Collection of Italian Renaissance drawings is on display in all its glory at the King’s Gallery, with plenty of detail about how these extraordinary works came to be. Drawing the Italian Renaissance Is this my final last minute exhibition review for the winter season? Perhaps. Unless I […]
The Silk Road (or Roads) is an interesting topic which seems to speak to the current Zeitgeist. But unless you love being part of a long queue, you’re better off reading the catalogue than coming to the British Museum. Silk Roads: Part of the Zeitgeist? Back in November I shared my experience of seeing A […]
The premise is interesting, the works are good, the presentation isn’t bad. So what was I missing at Michelangelo, Leonardo, Raphael: Florence c. 1504? Michelangelo, Leonardo, Raphael: Florence c. 1504 You’re going to be putting up with a few more last minute reviews in the coming weeks, I’m afraid. There was Hew Locke at the […]
A well-structured exhibition at the British Library, Medieval Women: In Their Own Words brings to life the evidence for women’s contributions to the private, public and religious spheres of medieval life. At the British Library Once More After an absence of a couple of years, I have visited the British Library twice in recent months […]
Blending artefacts and contemporary art, Hew Locke interrogates the archives and stores of the British Museum in order to ask timely and important questions about museums and their relationship to power, history-telling and colonialism. Hew Locke: what have we here? The Salterton Arts Review has been a little preoccupied in January, and so it was […]
Two very different exhibitions at Autograph in Shoreditch further their mission to “explore the creative and critical power of visual representation in shaping our understanding of ourselves and of others“. Abi Morocco Photos at Autograph Autograph have come up once or twice before on the blog (like on this walk here), but this is my […]
I catch one final blockbuster London art exhibition for the year in the form of Francis Bacon: Human Presence at the National Portrait Gallery. A Little Seasonal Bacon It’s been a busy few months for the Salterton Arts Review, not least on the exhibition front. The winter exhibition season always means a lot of things […]
One of two exhibitions in London devoted to the Silk Road, the British Library’s offering, A Silk Road Oasis: Life in Ancient Dunhuang focuses in on the treasures of one remarkable cave, and the insights they offer into ancient people’s lives. A Silk Road Oasis Sometimes great minds really do think alike. How else to […]
