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 […]
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, […]
