Category: Visual Art
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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 […]