In all the years I have travelled in and out of Waterloo Station, I had never been inside the Cello Factory in Cromwell Road, tucked away behind King College London’s student apartments. It was, as its name says, once a place for making, repairing and restringing cellos and other stringed instruments. Today it is a […]
21st century Houghton Hall has continued the tradition of carefully-placed sculptures in the landscape with its contemporary installations by artists such as Richard Long, Rachel Whiteread, James Turrell and Anya Gallaccio which await discovery in the gardens. Now Damien Hirst has arrived to break the mould with his unique sculptures outside and new works […]
Embedded into the landscape, Richard Long’s stone sculptures have a timelessness that connects the present with the past. They could have been there for ever. Britain’s first Prime Minister, Sir Robert Walpole, was a great patron of the arts. It would amuse him to see the landscape of his great Palladian house, Houghton Hall, filled […]
It’s funny how, without planning, a theme for a number of different, but related, exhibitions comes together at one time. This spring it is the relationship with Greece, both in Britain and also in the USA and Mexico with exhibitions including ‘The Classical Now’ at King’s College London, ‘Charmed Lives in Greece’ at the British […]
At the ‘New Now’ preview of the auction next week at Phillips, it is fun to see how many works follow the theme of the King’s College London exhibition ‘The Classical Now’, taking inspiration from classical art and the search for beauty and perfection. Quite a few, it seems. Some are obvious such as Viktor […]
Remember the Poleroid Camera? For a brief period of time in the history of photography, they were the ‘must-have’ of the era – even my mother had one. Clunky cameras to carry around, but they gave instant pictures in the era before the mobile phone and digital camera took over. They provided an informality catching […]
London born Marvin Gaye Chetwynd, who now lives in Glasgow (hooray), has filled Sadie Coles Gallery with weird and wonderful animals, fish, people and lizards bursting out of a backcloth of Renaissance frescos in her latest exhibition ‘Ze and Per’. Chetwynd was last at Sadie Coles creating a room, full of memories, a stage for […]
Continuing with the Greek theme, Greek-born artist Kalliopi Lemos has taken over the Gazelli Art House in Mayfair with her exhibition ‘All is to be Dared’ which follows on from her exhibition in 2016 links to the achievement a century ago of women achieving the ability to vote, and the ongoing battle for equality, but […]
Is it coincidence or planning that there is a Greek-related theme to several exhibitions in London this spring? After ‘The Classical Now’ at King’s College London, a stroll up Kingsway and along to the British Museum reveals another exhibition of modern artists who were influenced by Greece, Niko Ghika and John Craxton, along with the […]
On top of the portico the two classical statues by the American artist Malvina Hoffman, unveiled in 1925 to symbolise the friendship across the Atlantic Ocean between America and Britain, have been dressed in fashionable blue and white shirts, jazzy cravats and trendy glasses, Today the statues announce other links across time and space, joining […]
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