An illustrated walk around the nooks and crannies of St James’s, including Piccadilly and Green Park. If this doesn’t whet your appetite for seeking out London’s hidden sights, then nothing will! St James’s – Where Is That Again? St James’s is an area of London which many may pass through without a second thought. Unless […]
A look back at the things I did manage to see despite all the obstacles of 2020, as the Salterton Arts Review counts down the top five highlights of the year. The Salterton Arts Review in 2020 2020, what a year. I can’t say anything that hasn’t been said already about it, so I won’t […]
Review of Bruce Nauman at Tate Modern. A very attractive exhibition, but I’m still not sure of the ‘so what?’ when it comes to Bruce Nauman’s art. Back at Tate Modern – Didn’t I Say I Wouldn’t Do This? Do you remember a couple of months ago when I reviewed Tate Modern’s Andy Warhol exhibition? […]
Review of Artemisia at the National Gallery. Oh my goodness, blockbuster show of the season it might be, but not a good visitor experience! The National Gallery’s Blockbuster of 2020 The National Gallery billed Artemisia as the long overdue blockbuster of the year long before Covid. I was therefore very excited that they were able […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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?). […]
Unlike the Late Turner exhibition which I reviewed recently, the National Gallery didn’t create this exhibition on late works by Rembrandt from a position of reeducation or reinterpretation. The works on display are firmly within the Dutch Golden Age and have always been respected as masterful works (and quite a high number of them as […]
What to say about Allen Jones? Well, if you’re pretty much any critic who reviewed this exhibition, most of the discussion should be about his representation of women. You’ve likely all seen his sculptures of women as furniture, produced in the 1960s for the most part. Most famously there is ‘Chair’, in which a woman […]