In Brick Lane in East London flipflops are on sale for £2.50 a pair. Because they are cheap and colourful they are popular, especially in developing countries, but they are also considered disposable, many tourists will only wear them for one holiday, they are pretty well indestructible and, as can be seen by the number […]
I grew up in Glasgow when the nearby town of Paisley was still famous as a centre for manufacture of the Paisley Pattern of shawls with the Persian-inspired swirls that became famous the world over in 19th century when Paisley was the weaving capital of Scotland. Still a popular pattern , it is now manufactured […]
We’ve all grown up with the stories of Troy – the beauty of Helen, her relationships, and the successful attack by the Greeks using the device of the famous Trojan horse, while Homer’s stories tell us of the battles between the gods and the long journeys of the Greek heroes. Were these romantic myths or […]
The downstairs gallery has a reflective sculptural figure contrasting and interacting with the one painting in the room. Both are of Ada, the wife of American artist Alex Katz (born 1927), positioned here in a masterful and powerful piece of art curation, proving that ‘less is more’ (Mies van der Rohe). Upstairs, paintings of his […]
You would think that, as Picasso was such a giant of the 20th century, everything that could have been written about him had been written. Whoever decided to focus the new exhibition at the Royal Academy on Picasso and his use of paper was a genius. With other artists, we might have had a few […]
Continuing the exploration across London for Condo 2020 takes the explorer from Soho across Oxford Street to Pilar Corrias which is hosting the Matthew Brown Gallery from Los Angeles showing work by American artist Sedrick Chisom as he explores the future alongside Greek artist Sofia Mitsola’s bold simple works in ‘Darladildada’, with a delightful discovery […]
As you wander around Soho in London, you see groups of art explorers, and even the occasional gallerist, walking purposefully, with maps in hands, exploring dark, dirty, unknown corners of the city. It’s that time of year when 36 international art galleries are invited to co-habit in a variety of 17 gallery spaces across London […]
Portraits are no longer just visual images of people, often made to be flattering, as they were in those portraits which fill the staircases and state rooms of grand historic country houses. Today, they are realistic, reflecting the lives, the society, the experiences, the triumphs and the difficulties of the people shown. They are […]
The Oval Cricket Ground, one of those hallowed places of English cricket, being home to Surrey County Cricket Club, was created at the Oval in South London in 1846, next door to a waterworks previously owned by the Southward & Vauxhall Waterworks Company who had sold the site a year earlier to the Phoenix Gas […]
For the Italian artist Tullio Crali, the art movement Futurism was not just about art, but about a new dynamic and exciting way of life. Unfortunately during the 2nd World War it became too interlinked with Mussolini and, with the death of Filippo Tommaso Marinetti in 1944, the movement effectively came to an end, but […]
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