GALLERY photographic & art displays
TV Gallery: Cranford's Bonnets
Friday, 18 December 2009
It's sometimes referred to, just a bit dismissively, as bonnet drama. Whenever television visits the 19th century, the headwear of the female characters does indeed play its part. Of no adaptation... Read more... |
Art Gallery: Medieval and Renaissance Galleries, V&A
Friday, 11 December 2009
After the opening earlier this autumn of the reconfigured Ceramic Galleries, the Victoria & Albert Museum's renovation continues. Here is a selection of exhibits on permanent display in the newly... Read more... |
Art Gallery: Tim Burton, MoMA, New York
Friday, 04 December 2009
To accompany our review of the spectacular and extensive exhibition dedicated to Tim... Read more... |
Design gallery: Three Nutcrackers
Sunday, 22 November 2009
Is the look to be Beckmann, Bergman or Nicky Haslam? To accompany the interviews with Nutcracker designers elsewhere, here are three very different design portfolios tackling the eternal... Read more... |
Design gallery: The Tsarina's Slippers, Royal Opera
Monday, 16 November 2009
A new production by The Royal Opera of Tchaikovsky's The Tsarina's Slippers opens on Friday at Covent... Read more... |
Movie Gallery: Clint Eastwood posters
Saturday, 14 November 2009
Something has just happened to make Clint Eastwood's day. We refer, of course, not to the fact that he was yesterday made a Commander of the French Legion of Honour in Paris by President Sarkozky... Read more... |
Photographic Gallery: Points of View, British Library
Friday, 13 November 2009
The British Library has for the first time created an exhibition from its unique photography archive of some 300,000 items, dating back to the first days of the process. Sue Steward reviews this... Read more... |
Graffiti Gallery: Crack & Shine
Tuesday, 10 November 2009
Graffiti is the only form of artistic self-expression that can get you both arrested and exhibited. Its most celebrated exponent, Banksy, is the subject of tabloid news speculation. The faces and... Read more... |
Production gallery: Duke Bluebeard's Castle, ENO
Sunday, 08 November 2009
English National Opera's new production of Bartók's Duke Bluebeard's Castle is photographed here by Johan Persson. Directed by Daniel Kramer, designed by Giles Cadle and... Read more... |
Art Gallery: Ed Ruscha
Friday, 06 November 2009
Half a century of Ed Ruscha's paintings are on show at the Hayward Gallery, London. Mark Hudson reviews... Read more... |
Art Gallery: The Sacred Made Real
Monday, 02 November 2009
Mark Hudson reviews on another page the National Gallery's... Read more... |
Art Gallery: Romuald HazouméThursday, 29 October 2009An extensive selection is shown here of the work of Romuald Hazoumé, the Benin contemporary artist whose iconic masks made from petrol canisters dumped around his poverty-stricken homeland of Benin... Read more... |
Production Gallery: Annie Get Your Gun, Young VicFriday, 16 October 2009Keith Pattison took photographs of Richard Jones's new production of Annie Get Your Gun for the Young Vic. Read Matt Wolf's review... Read more... |
Photographic Gallery: Jillian Edelstein
Sunday, 04 October 2009
Acclaimed photographer Jillian Edelstein's series of Portraits include images of significant figures from the world of arts, fashion and the demi-monde, but also politics: her portrait of... Read more... |
Production Gallery: The Royal Ballet's Mayerling
Tuesday, 29 September 2009
Charlotte MacMillan photographed the Royal Ballet's Mayerling, with choreography by Kenneth MacMillan, music by Franz Liszt, and designs by Nicholas Georgiadis, which... Read more... |
Production Gallery: ROH2's GoldbergWednesday, 23 September 2009
Johan Persson took photographs of Kim Brandstrup's new ballet with Tamara Rojo, Goldberg, which was premiered at the Linbury Studio Theatre, Royal Opera House, on 21... Read more... |
Exclusive Art Gallery: TitianSunday, 20 September 2009With thanks to the National Gallery, the Musée du Louvre, Madrid's Prado Gallery, Naples' Capodimonte Museum and Washington's National Gallery, and to mark the publication of Mark Hudson's major new... Read more... |
Titian's Bacchus and Ariadne
Sunday, 20 September 2009
In 1519 Titian was commissioned by Alfonso d’Este, the famously irascible Duke of Ferrara, to provide the first of three paintings for a study, the so-called camerino d’alabastro or... Read more... |
Photographic Gallery: Roger HutchingsTuesday, 01 September 2009Roger Hutchings photographs Olafur Eliasson's The Weather Project at the Tate Modern in late 2003 and fashion designer Giorgio Armani for the book... Read more... |
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