Review of a visit to Oxford, in which I enjoy doing basically everything that’s reopened to the public. As mentioned in my recent post about Blenheim Palace, I decided to ditch London for a week as things started to open up a little, and set up camp in Oxford. Blenheim Palace was one of my […]
A review of an outing to Blenheim Palace Summer 2020. In which I enjoy seeing how the other half live, and manage not to shock myself climbing over an electric fence. Review of Blenheim Palace, UNESCO World Heritage Site Blenheim Palace is both home to the Dukes of Marlborough and a UNESCO World Heritage site. […]
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 […]
Review of the Wallace Collection. In which I am able to consume classic culture first-hand for the first time in many months, and am very happy as a result. Getting Back Into London Culture, Starting with the Wallace Collection Confession: I hadn’t been to the Wallace Collection for over 10 years before my recent trip […]
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 […]
I recently went to Cuba. Not primarily for reasons of heritage tourism, more for reasons of wanting to have a holiday in the sun, see somewhere different, drink mojitos, and practice the Spanish I’ve been learning. But nonetheless I did visit some historic sites, museums and other cultural spots, as well as doing a couple […]
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 […]
