Visual arts
Lucian Freud, 1922-2011Friday, 22 July 2011
Lucian Freud, who died aged 88 at his west London home on Wednesday, was often described as Britain's greatest living artist. In the six decades he was active, figurative painting went in and out of fashion - though mostly it was out - but... Read more... |
Forests, Rocks, Torrents: Norwegian and Swiss Landscapes, National GalleryWednesday, 20 July 2011
The National Gallery has in recent years made a speciality of examining the hitherto unexamined. Just for starters, a surprise hit some years ago was Spanish Still Lifes, 2007 saw Renoir Landscapes (who knew?), last year there was the ravishing... Read more... |
The Impressionists: Painting and Revolution, BBC TwoSunday, 17 July 2011
Who could argue that television isn’t a great medium for learning about art? In its pared-down, visually literate way it delivers what dull, theory-laden extrapolations often can’t (if only because artists don’t think that way when they make things... Read more... |
Jake or Dinos Chapman, White Cube Mason's Yard and HoxtonFriday, 15 July 2011
It begins in a so-so fashion. The ground-floor gallery at White Cube’s Mason’s Yard features a sea of Constructivist sculptures on plinths. These are made from bits of torn cardboard and loo rolls, sloppily painted. Jake and Dinos Chapman love corny... Read more... |
Hiroshi Sugimoto, Edinburgh FestivalThursday, 14 July 20114 Aug-18 Sep, Hiroshi Sugimoto, Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art. Japanese art photographer’s series Lightning Fields and Photoge nic Drawings. Complimentary exhibition: Towards the Light, colour woodcutsfrom Britain and Japan. Read more... |
Glamour of the Gods: Hollywood Portraits, National Portrait GalleryWednesday, 13 July 2011
In the days before there were any paparazzi to catch celebrities unawares, the pictures of the stars that reached mere mortals like ourselves were carefully staged by the film studios. Establishments like MGM, Warner Bros and Paramount Pictures... Read more... |
Jake and Dinos Chapman, White Cube Mason's Yard and HoxtonTuesday, 12 July 2011For the past year, Jake and Dinos Chapman have worked in separ ate studios to produce a series of works in isolation from each other. The White Cube's dual exhibition at Mason's Yard and Hoxton Square explores theresult of their first non-... Read more... |
British Masters, BBC Four/ The World's Most Expensive Paintings, BBC OneTuesday, 12 July 2011
Does James Fox fancy himself as the Niall Ferguson of art history? I ask because clearly this latest addition to the growing pantheon of television art historians wants to do for British art what Ferguson sought to do for the British Empire. He... Read more... |
Devotion by Design: Italian Altarpieces Before 1500, National GallerySunday, 10 July 2011
Down the stairs the visitor enters a sequence of galleries gleaming with gold, seemingly illuminated by softly filtered evening light and flickering candles: here be a treasure house of stories in paint: saints, sinners and the narrative of the... Read more... |
Thomas Struth: Photography 1978-2010Sunday, 10 July 2011
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The Holburne Museum, Bath: In With the NewSaturday, 09 July 2011
Gleaming, shimmering, full of pizzazz, glitz and unashamed bling, although of the 18th-century sort, as befits its role as the most cheerfully mixed up and glittering show of baubles in Bath, the Holburne Museum reopened in May after three years... Read more... |
Treasures of Heaven: Saints, Relics and Devotion in Medieval Europe, British MuseumWednesday, 06 July 2011
At the end of my road is a shrine dedicated to a young man murdered there more than a year ago. For the first few months lighted candles, plastic flowers, cards and poems penned by friends and relatives were left on a doorstep; now, though, a blue... Read more... |
