More artists who reflect on economic structures and their meanings in Genuine Fake Premium Economy at the ICA. Genuine Fake Premium Economy Today’s exhibition is but a small one, so this will be but a small review. Its subject is Genuine Fake Premium Economy, the latest exhibition at the ICA in London. The exhibition brings […]
Hurvin Anderson’s meditative paintings form a powerful exhibition at Tate Britain, exploring memory, cultural heritage, and colonialism. Hurvin Anderson at Tate Britain This exhibition is quite a contrast to Turner & Constable: Rivals and Originals, which is the last thing I saw at Tate Britain. The Tate do tend to have quite a good mix […]
The Gallery of Everything’s latest exhibition, Currency Exchange, encourages us to think about the meaning(s) of physical currency at a time when it is in decline. Currency Exchange The Gallery of Everything, like Goldsmiths CCA, is a place I always intend to visit much more frequently than I do. Looking back at previous posts in […]
In my second trip to the Goldsmiths Centre for Contemporary Art we see Flare-Up, a group exhibition of artists whose work “engages with the poetics and aesthetics of illness, disability, neurodivergence and Deafness”. Flare-Up Once more, I have had good intentions that have not come to pass. When I first came to Goldsmiths CCA in […]
A chance to rediscover an artist almost lost to history: Michaelina Wautier at the Royal Academy. Who Is Michaelina Wautier? When was it that I was writing about the serendipity of missing an exhibition in London, and then finding I have a second chance when I meet it on holiday somewhere? Was that Switzerland, maybe? […]
The National Gallery uses a display space to build a small exhibition around a monumental painting by George Stubbs. But for once I could have done with a bit more. Stubbs: Portrait of a Horse Regular readers know that I love small collection displays or exhibitions at institutions like the National Gallery, Courtauld Gallery and […]
A very nice little exhibition at Sir John Soane’s Museum, Vanbrugh: The Drama of Architecture introduces the “starchitect” to new audiences, and shows off the museum’s wonderful collection of drawings. An Architects’ Architect I really like the way this exhibition opens. Sir John Soane’s Museum isn’t a big space. And if you’ve been there you’ll […]
A nice little exhibition at the Courtauld, The Painted Tower: Conservation in Context at Longthorpe focuses on their educational work and efforts to record, preserve and restore medieval wall paintings. The Painted Tower Oh I do love a little academic exhibition. I was at the Courtauld Gallery to see Seurat and the Sea. I didn’t […]
For once I found myself wishing a British Museum was a little busier, as I want a lot of people to see Hawai’i: A Kingdom Crossing Oceans. The British Museum Showcases Hawaiian Culture and History Can you believe it? When I write about exhibitions at the British Museum, it’s almost always to complain uncharitably that […]
A lovely small exhibition at the Wallace Collection explores the WWII period: how the collections were safeguarded, and the uses to which Hertford House was put during wartime. The Wallace Collection at War I little thought, when I came to the Wallace Collection recently to see Caravaggio’s Cupid, that I would be back again so […]
