Tag: London

  • Charles II: Art and Power

    The Royal Collection’s exploration of the Merrie Monarch is a historical exhibition par excellence, presenting the king as a gateway to the art, culture and advances of the Restoration

  • Impressionists in London, French Artists in Exile (1870-1904)

    This exhibition lacks coherence and has little to say about the influence British artists had on the French impressionists, but is redeemed by paintings of the Thames, the highlight of which are eight works by Claude Monet

  • Georgiana Houghton: Spirit Drawings

    She was an abstract painter out of time, a visionary and a maverick, but Georgiana Houghton was also a medium, whose inspiration came from an unexpected source.

  • Delacroix and the Rise of Modern Art

    This exhibition includes some beautiful and touching examples of artistic hero worship, but the underlying concept is a strained addition to the misleading story of the origin of modern art

  • Maud Sulter, Syrcas

    The Scottish-Ghanaian artist placed black women at the centre of the frame, metaphorically and literally. This exhibition of her series Syrcas shows her use of photomontage to disrupt European images by covering them with traditional African objects and artworks

  • Jon Rafman

    The artist draws us into his virtual world with playful installations and video works, as he leads us through his disturbing and gripping interpretations of internet culture

  • Ken Kiff: The Hill of Dreams

    In the Hill of Dreams, which includes encaustic paintings, monotypes, lithographs, etchings, woodcut and monoprint, Ken Kiff is revealed as an artist’s artist, creating images to draw the viewer in, as if to partake in his adventure

  • Encountering the Astronomical Sublime: Vintage Nasa Photographs 1961-1980

    With distance comes sublime beauty, and with space travel our world is something magnificent to behold. For many, space travel is also an impossible dream, to be viewed and lived vicariously through the imagined lives of astronauts. As the vintage…

  • Jasper Johns: Regrets

    Jasper Johns’ new works at the Courtauld Gallery, Regrets, take inspiration from Francis Bacon, Lucian Freud and the photographer John Deakin. The result is a powerful, if enigmatic exhibition

  • David Smith: Personage

    Gagosian Gallery, London 2 November-9 December 2006