The Burlington Gardens wing of the Royal Academy was originally built for the University of London between 1867 and 1870 by Sir James Pennythorne. Long isolated from the main building of the Academy, the recent refurbishment has joined the two buildings together, but its classical interiors have now been disrupted by an architectural installation and […]
In 1789 the Navy Board in London moved into its new offices in Somerset House, then just completed, where it remained until, merged into the Board of Admiralty, it moved out to Whitehall in 1873. At Somerset House, it had a link with the river that ran down to the sea from which the Navy […]
Two complimentary exhibitions at Tate Britain, the first is “RuinLust”, the artistic portrayal of ruins from the time that they became picturesque in the 18th century. The second is Phyllida Barlow’s massive installation which fills the whole of the classical Duveen galleries. It is a measure of how disappointing the exhibition is that the installation […]
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