Tag: Enlightenment

  • Faith, Narrative and Desire

    Masterpieces of Indian Painting in the British Museum Room 91, The British Museum 9 August – 11 November 2007 The British Museum has taken the opportunity of the current celebration of 60 years of Indian independence to offer the public,…

  • Douglas Gordon: Superhumanatural

    National Galleries of Scotland, Edinburgh 2 November 2006-14 January 2007 The film and video artist Douglas Gordon had his first one-man exhibition in Britain at the Lisson Gallery in 1994, sponsored by its perceptive director Nicholas Logsdail, to which he…

  • William Hogarth

    Musée du Louvre, Paris 20 October 2006-8 January 2007 The great 18th-century caricaturist, William Hogarth, who signed himself ‘Britophil’, caught the mood with flattering – if double-edged – national stereotypes. People loved his beer-swilling, roast-beef-guzzling, four-square Englishmen, the ‘dread and…

  • AngloMania: Tradition and Transgression in British Fashion

    The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York 3 May-4 September 2006