When you read or watch the news can you tell what is real and what might be staged? President Donald Trump is fond of using the phrase ‘fake news’, but if you are in the USA and watch Fox News and CNN, you will find two entirely different views of the world, confusing to the […]
It’s one of the amazing things about London, but no matter how well you think you know it, you find something new, often by accident. Having worked at London Bridge for many years, a short walk or tube journey from London South Bank University, I only recently discovered the existence of the Borough Road Gallery, […]
Following swiftly on from the Science Museum’s winter exhibition on Anxiety, its latest exhibition, opened before the coronavirus crisis, focuses on the issue of Gender, a subject which, like Climate Change, has taken a back seat during the current crisis, but will re-emerge once things return to some semblance of normality. Anxiety and Gender often […]
Do you experience anxiety or are you one of those people who calmly sails through life, no matter how strong the stormy winds are howling around you? Particularly relevant in these uncertain times of the coronavirus, the Science Gallery’s exhibition at the turn of the year focused on the wide-ranging issues about living with anxiety […]
One of the joys of the many galleries in London with their varied exhibitions, before and after coronavirus closures, is being able to see the work of two near-contemporaries and wonder why their work is so different and why they have such different artistic views of the world? No doubt art aficionados do that all […]
Why do we so dislike, or are fearful of, spiders – poor creatures that have a bad press? Is it because their webs are used to trap and ensnare their prey, while some can evil venom from their fangs? In some cultures, spiders are considered creative, through their ability to weave and create delicate tapestries […]
The street is dark, but lights can be seen through a few of the windows in the tall apartment block, while friends linger in dim light on the staircase. Nearby, looters have been at work, helping themselves to an unprotected jewellery store and young people are sitting, chatting, smoking and drinking of the steps of the […]
Outside, Antony Gormley’s statue stands alone looking out across the courtyard to Bermondsey Street, with the Shard at London Bridge in the distance. Inside, above your head, you might sense traces of a helicopter in the neon rotor arms, the body and the circular wheel – in fact the shapes are derived from drawings of […]
Sometimes modern art defeats me. Recently on show at the White Cube Gallery in St James’s were abstract sculptural paintings by the Belgian Artist Bram Bogart (1921-2012), almost an exact contemporary of my mother, but she would have not understood Bogart’s art at all. Seen previously at the Saatchi Gallery in 2017 with a theme […]
Robert Motherwell’s history is as fascinating as his art, and indeed the two often interlink. There is a Scottish connection, with his father’s name being Robert Burns Motherwell and indeed Robert Motherwell, along with his father and sister, actually visited the town of Motherwell in Lanarkshire in Scotland at the end of a European tour […]
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