Waldemar Januszczak is my favourite TV art critic (James Fox is second in case anyone cares). In The Art Mysteries, Januszczak showed just how much can be done in a 30-minute documentary. Each of the four episodes featured a painting by a giant of post impressionism: Van Gogh, Seurat, Gauguin and Cezanne. Januszczak delved into… Read More
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1932 was a prolific year for one of the most prolific artists of all time. Astonishingly, almost all the works on display in this simply yet effectively curated exhibition come from that one year. Many of the works seems familiar, thanks to PP’s overexposure, but standing in front of the real thing is still an… Read More
A bit of a higgledy-piggledy collection this one, and stretching the conventional definition of the medium. Some interesting paintings in and among some frankly random selections. Glad I saw it; probably won’t trouble it again unless I really want to look at a Hodgkin, a Nash, a Heron, a Frederick Lewis or of course the… Read More
It’s my own fault for leaving it so late. I’m not a big fan of Gauguin, but thought I should check out this blockbuster before it closes on Sunday. Far far far too busy to see much. Couldn’t take it after five minutes and just walked through. Shame, because from what I did see, it… Read More
Four artists on this year’s shortlist: Dexter Dalwood paints expressive luminous pieces full of hidden characters. White Flag was my favourite. Angela de la Cruz’s objets trouvés sculptures are a little harder to love, but still engaging. My favourite was “Untitled” (two large black “boxes” joined together). Susan Philipsz’ sound installation required more time than… Read More
Selection of Muybridge’s early landscape photos before vast numbers of his famous horse-trotting pics and other extracts from Animal Locomotion. Interesting but not compelling. Feels like it’s stretched out to fill the exhibition space. 6/10 Exhibition archive
I mooched over to the National Gallery to see what was on there. I’d not heard of “A Radical Light“, which is the Sainsbury Wing exhibition. This is perhaps not surprising. It’s an artists’ art exhibition. The Divisionists were a bunch of disparate late 19th century artists in what was a rather shaky country called… Read More
I’m at the British Museum. Last time I was here was for the Terracotta Warriors. Now it’s for “American Scene” in the invariably excellet print room. It’s a take on American prints roughly from the first half of the 20th century. The marketing throws out the two famous names: Hopper and Pollock. But there’s lots… Read More
Took Friday off and headed to the Hayward. Having been to an entertaining evening celebration of all thing Hayward a few weeks earlier (Antony Gormley special guesting), was even more keen to go to the Psycho Buildings exhibition that’s been the cultural talk of the town of late. If you like buildings and you’re a… Read More
Last Sunday I trotted off to the Courtauld (never been before) with two of the History of Art gang to see the Cézanne exhibition there. Only a room. Bit steep for a fiver (this causes an argument later in the week), but I get in for free – thank you Art Fund membership. Good though.… Read More