Review of Warhol at Tate Modern. In which I am put off by a chaotic lack of social distancing. The exhibition was ok but would have been better if I could have spent more time looking at it. Back to Tate Modern to Review some Warhol I was looking forward to the reopening of Tate […]
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 Royal Academy exhibition Picasso and Paper. In which I enjoy seeing Picasso’s immense creativity, but could have done without being herded from room to room. Navigating the Staggered Reopening of London’s Museums The thing about museums and galleries reopening is that it’s kind of all happening at once. They are staggering the […]
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 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, […]
