Category: Visual Art
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Things to See and Do in London Over the Bank Holiday Weekend
So you have a three day weekend (woohoo!) and now need to decide what to do with it but you are completely stuck for ideas. Well allow me to help you particularly if you are in the London area as there is plenty to see and enjoy in one of the world’s best cities (in […]
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The Design Museum Announces the 2015 Designers in Residence
Now heading for its eighth year, the Design Museum’s annual Designers in Residence programme celebrates the best upcoming designers at the early stage of their career. This year’s selected designers will spend the next four months responding to the theme of ‘migration’, with their final projects forming the exhibition at the museum from September. The […]
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National Gallery Announces New Exhibition
The National Gallery in London has announced a brand new exhibition that will allow visitors to explore some of the highlights of the collection through what they hear as much as what they see. A number of leading sound artists and musicians including Nico Muhly and Chris Watson have been commissioned to respond to six […]
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What is Luxury? Victoria and Albert Museum, Review
The Victoria and Albert Museum want to find out what luxury is in this latest exhibition as part of the joint V&A and Crafts Council series. From Aram Mooradian’s A Comprehensive Atlas of Gold Fictions to a laser-cut haute couture dress by Iris van Herpen, the display aims to expand visitor’s minds as to what […]
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Artists Shortlisted for the BP Portrait Award 2015 Announced
The three artists who have been shortlisted for the 2015 prize have been announced today by the National Portrait Gallery. In the year that has seen the competition’s biggest level of entries, it is also the first time that the images of the portraits were submitted digitally for the initial stage of judging. Selected from […]
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Cornelius Johnson: Charles I’s Forgotten Painter, National Portrait Gallery: Review
The National Portrait Gallery’s display showcasing a selection of this little known painter’s work is both beautiful and extraordinarily detailed, which is a pleasure to look at. Born in London in 1593 into a Flemish/German Protestant family, Johnson is thought to have completed his training mainly in the Netherlands before returning to London by early […]