Category: Visual Art
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NEWS: V&A Museum Announces Opening Date of Young V&A
The museum (formerly known as the Museum of Childhood), will re-open following a three year transformation. It has been announced that the Young V&A will open its doors to the public once more on the 1st July 2023, following a three-year transformation to showcase the power of creativity and displaying remarkable and optimistic stories of […]
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REVIEW: Donatello: Sculpting the Renaissance, Victoria and Albert Museum
This expansive exhibition certainly captures just how influential Donatello was as a sculptor but can feel a little overwhelming in places. The title of this wonderfully vast exhibition is certainly apt, as it effectively reveals the impact of Donatello’s innovative approach to sculpture and there is plenty of compare and contrast to really illustrate many […]
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PREVIEW: Visions in Porcelain: A Rake’s Progress, Sir John Soane’s Museum
The exhibition will feature the work of acclaimed artist Bouke de Vries. Sir John Soane’s Museum have announced details of its upcoming new exhibition Visions in Porcelain: A Rake’s Progress, which will go on display from the 7th June until the 10th September. This new display is set to feature a set of eight newly […]
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REVIEW: The Big City, Guildhall Art Gallery
This interesting and concise exhibition blends attitudes of how we saw London in the past to the present perfectly. Designed as a celebration of the artists who have captured London through painting, The Big City showcases not only the way in which the London landscape has changed over the years, but also how each artist […]
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Review Round Up: Mike Nelson: Extinction Beckons, Hayward Gallery
We round up the reviews for the latest exhibition to open at the Hayward Gallery. The Guardian: *** “There is a degree of magical thinking and twisted logic in Nelson’s art. He throws us into the middle of things and compounds our difficulties, segues his own earlier works into new arrangements, juggles historical time periods, […]
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Review Round Up: Alice Neel: Hot Off the Griddle, Barbican
We take a look at what critics have had to say about this new exhibition devoted to the work of the American artist. The Guardian: **** “Neel had a light but full-bodied touch. You don’t get a sense of multiple revisions let alone struggle in her art (although her late self-portrait apparently took her several […]
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Review Round Up: Action, Gesture, Paint: Women Artists and Global Abstraction 1940-1970, Whitechapel Gallery
We take a look at what is being said about the Whitechapel Gallery’s latest exhibition. The Guardian: *** “But not everything is equally distinguished, powerful, or even individual. With its clamour of voices, approaches, touches, tempos, styles, its wild differences in scale, surface treatment, materiality and intention, there are surprises and discoveries here, great things […]
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Review Round Up: Donatello: Sculpting the Renaissance, Victoria and Albert Museum
Discover what is being said about the Victoria and Albert Museum’s new exhibition exploring the talents of the famous sculptor. The Guardian: ***** “Everywhere you look, Donatello breaks rules to suggest fleeting, delicate, often dangerous emotions. In one of the most sublime sculptures here, he pushes at the edge of visibility itself. The Ascension depicts […]
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Exhibitions Opening: February 2023
Here’s a guide to some of the exhibitions opening in London throughout February. Action, Gesture, Paint: Women Artists and Global Abstraction 1940-1970, Whitechapel Gallery: the Whitechapel gallery explores the work of of 80 international women artists including: Mary Abbott, Etel Adnan, Maliheh Afnan, Ruth Armer, Gillian Ayres, Ida Barbarigo and Noemi di Benedetto. Featuring over […]
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Review Round Up: Spain and the Hispanic World, Royal Academy of Arts
We take a look at what critics have had to say about this exhibition which celebrates the collection of the Hispanic Society Museum & Library in New York, while highlighting the history of Spanish culture. The Guardian: *** “Grim and gorgeous, extensive and rushed, overwhelming in its scope and oddly truncated, the exhibition has great […]