Tag: London
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Citizens and Kings: Portraits in the Age of Revolution 1760-1830
The Royal Academy of Arts is currently hosting Citizens and Kings: Portraiture in the Age of Revolution. However, despite the British Museum’s own superb and scholarly comprehensive exhibition entitled Enlightenment: Discovering the World in the Eighteenth Century (2003), there seems…
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China Power Station: Part 1
Battersea Power Station, London 8 October-5 November 2006
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Frieze Art Fair 2006
Regent’s Park, London 12-15 October 2006
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The Horse: 30,000 Years of the Horse in Art – book review
The Horse: 30,000 Years of the Horse in Art by Tamsin Pickeral is a gallop through art history from prehistoric times to the present, with the focus narrowed on the horse – a long-standing and yet surprisingly unmentioned muse of…
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Axel Antas: Nature of Things/Marijke van Warmerdam: First Drop
Rokeby Gallery, London 5 September-3 October 2006
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Gothic Nightmares: Fuseli, Blake and the Romantic Imagination
Tate Britain, London 15 February-1 May 2006 What fascinates us in an artwork? One answer to this question is content that conveys a sense of harmony and rightness: summer landscapes bathed in sunshine; human beauty, strength and agility; stories that…
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Martin Kippenberger
Tate Modern, London 8 February-14 May 2006 Kippenberger’s restless stylistic movements resist the monumentality that a retrospective can impart, and this resistance gives the exhibition a manic energy. Rooms full of painted pastiche spill out into sculptures, books, catalogues and…
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Richard Long: The Time of Space
Haunch of Venison, London 3 January-10 February 2006 Since 1967, Richard Long has used walking as the basis of his artistic practice. What appears in the gallery may be a sculpture constructed from natural materials, a photograph of a sculpture…
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Blood Red Suns and Bright Yellow Moons – Henri Rousseau: Jungles in Paris
Tate Modern, London 3 November 2005-5 February 2006
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Jake and Dinos Chapman: Like a Dog Returns to its Vomit
White Cube Gallery, London 19 October-3 December 2005
