A visit to Hogarth’s House in Chiswick highlights, perhaps better than any other historic site I’ve been to, the stark difference between how historic figures experienced London and its environs vs. how we do today. A Visit To Chiswick It’s funny. The reason I knew that Hogarth’s House was a visitor attraction in West London […]
A review of Tate Britain’s Walter Sickert retrospective. After looking at a broad sweep of Sickert’s work, I have a much better sense of his interests than his artistic style. Walter Sickert One of two paid exhibitions currently on at Tate Britain (the other is Cornelia Parker), Walter Sickert is a retrospective of the artist’s […]
A review of Grayson Perry’s tapestry series The Vanity of Small Differences, on display at Salisbury Cathedral. What does the ecclesiastical setting add to the works? Let’s find out! Grayson Perry At Salisbury Cathedral The Salterton Arts Review is back in Salisbury. Last year we spent a weekend here exploring various sights including Salisbury Cathedral, […]
A review of Hogarth and Europe, on at Tate Britain. This sprawling exhibition certainly has a great number of Hogarths on display. If only it was a little more focused. Hogarth and Europe I had seen some reaction to this exhibition before I saw the exhibition itself. So I knew the Tate had done something […]
Visiting Pitzhanger Manor today is a very interesting experience. As well as the manor house itself there is also a contemporary art gallery (on which more shortly), but if I focus just on the manor, what I really liked about it was its scale.
