Stonehenge and the archaeological sites around it is a unique and powerful monument, with a great deal of mystery surrounding its history of over 5,000 years. Well done to English Heritage, Ginko Projects and Bloor Homes for bringing the 21st century to Stonehenge. Located within Denton Corker Marshall’s award-winning Visitor Centre, Linda Brothwell’s beautiful pieces of […]
From the day that it was built in the 13th century, Salisbury Cathedral has been awash with sculpture both inside and out, from the rows of statues on the West Front to the frieze around the interior of the magnificent Chapter House, telling stories from the Bible with other sculptures of Vices and Virtues. More […]
Imagine something which glues the world together, but cannot be seen. That is Dark Matter which comprises 95% of the world that we cannot see, not can scientists, yet must exist or their would be nothingness between light and the world would implode. The explorations of several artists into Dark Matter and its interaction with […]
Although there are still lives and architectural scenes included, this exhibition really starts and ends with Schjerfbeck’s portraits, into which you have to look as if trying to see into their eyes and into their very soul. It is through those that you can see and feel Schjerfbeck’s life and her pain, with self-portraits and […]
Disney cartoon characters including Mickey Mouse and Goofy, love stories, crime, terror, mystery, the Mafia and cowboys have all come together with many classics of their time in a variety of languages such as The Godfather, For a Few Dollars More, Batman & Robin, Notorious, The Birds, My Fair Lady, Some Like it Hot, Vertigo, […]
As you enter, you see ahead of you the vast floors of laboratories of the largest medical research laboratory in the world with over 1000 scientists carrying out ground-breaking life-changing research. With this number of scientists in the Francis Crick Institute, think about the technical expertise needed to support the scale of research – the […]
Every inch of wall has been covered, from top to bottom, from wall to wall. Artist France Lise-McGurn born 1983, from Glasgow has taken over one the the rooms in Tate Britain with colourful romantically-intertwined couples and groups in ‘Sleepness’. France Lise-McGurn’s specially-commissioned work represents the closeness, intimacy, intertwining and sexual electricity of young people […]
You’ve probably not heard of Frank Bowling, though Hales Gallery in Shoreditch does exhibit his work quite frequently. Born in Guyana some 85 years ago, he still paints in his London studio every day, continuing his lifelong experimentation with paint. Somehow, he has failed to achieve the recognition that his cotemporaries such as David Hockney […]
I hold up my hands - S|2 is one of my favourite galleries in Mayfair. Contemporary well-designed interiors over two floors which work best with contemporary art that is sculptural, contrasting and complimenting work on the walls, and providing interesting glimpses out from the ground floor windows. S|2 has now gone one stage further by adding […]
While the main entrance of the Gagosian Gallery near King’s Cross has the builders in, Michael Craig-Martin (born 1941 in Ireland) has taken the stylised simplified coloured graphic lines of everyday objects, for which he is famous, and turned them into 3-dimensional sculptures in the gallery spaces, entered through another door, as he continues to […]
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