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Strange Beauty: Masters of the German Renaissance, at the National Gallery
One of the great pleasures of spending time in London is that there is an extraordinarily rich collection […]
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Veronese: Magnificence in Renaissance Venice
It is extraordinary to consider that Venice in the mid-C16 was both the home and principal workplace of […]
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Palazzo Ducale and Galleria Nazionale delle Marche, Urbino
Imagine the opportunity to lose yourself for a morning or longer in world class Renaissance art. Imagine also […]
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Matisse, The Cut Outs at Tate Modern
The current exhibition of Matisse’s Cut Outs is one of the “must see” exhibitions in London this […]
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The Summer Exhibition at the RA, 2014
They say that, if you are to be successful in shooting birds out of a covey of […]
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Malevich at Tate Modern
The comprehensive retrospective of the work by Kazimir Malevich at Tate Modern is an important and significant exhibition. […]
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Horst at the V&A
There are few efforts less likely of a successful outcome than seeking to define the boundaries between art, […]
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Moroni at the Royal Academy
When Giorgio Vasari was writing and revising his Lives of the Most Excellent Painters, Sculptors and Architects in the […]
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Allen Jones at the Royal Academy
A major retrospective of the work of Allen Jones is opening at the Royal Academy. This is […]
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Late Turner, Painting Set Free, at Tate Britain and ‘Mr Turner’
I had the opportunity to see both the current Turner exhibition, ‘Late Turner, Painting Set Free’, and the […]
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Taylor Wessing 2014
It’s that time of year again; November, and the opening of the Taylor Wessing portrait photography exhibition and […]
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Rubens and his Legacy, at the Royal Academy
If you choose to reach for the stars, you will on occasion overreach and fall to the ground. […]
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Sargent, Portraits of Artists and Friends, at the National Portrait Gallery
John Singer Sargent (1856-1925) was the ultimate Europeanised American. He was born in Florence of expatriate Americans and […]
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Adventures of the Black Square at the Whitechapel Gallery
Kazimir Malevich was recognised by a large retrospective exhibition at Tate Modern less than a year ago. It […]
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Post Pop: East meets West at the Saatchi Gallery
“I believe that Warhol, his works, his figure, are very important and actual for us all because, as […]
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Henry Moore – Back to a Land, at the Yorkshire Sculpture Park
When I was a boy I walked regularly through the Royal Botanic Gardens in Edinburgh, to get a […]
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The Venice Biennale
In an outstanding recent article, Waldemar Januszczak said pretty much all there is to be said about the […]
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Jaume Plensa at Basilica di San Giorgio Maggiore, Venice
In my previous post I wrote about the official Venice Bienalle in uncomplimentary terms. But if you are […]
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Ursula von Rydingsvard at the Giardino della Marinaressa, Venice
One of the nicest surprises of our trip to Venice came as we were walking from St Mark’s […]
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BP Portrait Award 2015 at the National Portrait Gallery
I am not a regular visitor to this annual award exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery and it […]
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