Exhibitions

Robert Rauschenberg – Tate Modern, London

Artists whose creativity spills out of them – onto canvases, onto objects around them – fascinate me, it’s a reason I have such a soft spot for Jean-Michel Basquiat.  It is also a principle behind Robert Rauschenberg’s artistic output, made all the more interesting by the fact that he did not set out on an […]

Exhibitions

Electricity: The Spark of Life – Wellcome Collection, London

I rather enjoyed this historic and thematic overview of the place of electricity in our lives.  The broad structure of the exhibition takes us from Generation (early encounters with electrical forces, experimentation and understanding of the processes involved in creating electricity) to Supply (how electricity was stored, harnessed and transported) and Consumption (the effect it […]

Reviews

A Tale of Two Talks at the National Gallery, London

Ah, January.  A time for great new projects, an aim of self-improvement, a flurry of activity, and then… who knows?  Having challenged myself to take advantage of the many opportunities London provides of hearing talks, lectures and panel discussions on a range of interesting topics, I found myself this week attending two at the National […]

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