Visual arts
Mughal India: Art, Culture and Empire, British LibraryFriday, 16 November 2012
A photograph from 1858 shows a feeble and frail octogenarian who happens to be the last Mughal emperor. Bahadur Shah II (pictured below right), reclining in his wretched prison in Delhi, awaiting trial, is about to be exiled to Burma. Many of... Read more... |
A Bigger Splash: Painting After Performance, Tate ModernThursday, 15 November 2012
A Bigger Splash... opens with Hans Namuth’s famous 1951 film of Jackson Pollock balletically dripping, flicking and pouring paint onto the canvas at his feet. Beneath the screen a long, scroll-like painting by Pollock lies on the gallery floor. The... Read more... |
Light from the Middle East: New Photography, Victoria & Albert MuseumWednesday, 14 November 2012
This compilation of nearly 90 photographs by 30 photographers from 13 different countries of the Middle East is literally and metaphorically illuminating. The Paris-based Iranian photographer Abbas puts it thus: “I write with light.”Framed in three... Read more... |
Photo Gallery: They That Are LeftSunday, 11 November 2012
For the past 10 years Brian David Stevens has been taking photographic portraits of veterans on Remembrance Sunday. The images play on the notion of the unknown soldier. Each subject is portrayed without the distinguishing marks of regiment or rank... Read more... |
The Northern Renaissance: Dürer to Holbein, The Queen's GalleryFriday, 09 November 2012
In what ways was the Northern Renaissance distinct from the Italian one? When we look at a painting by Holbein we’re struck by the painting’s rich surface: we admire the finely delineated weave of a Turkish rug, the individual hairs of fur lining a... Read more... |
Taylor Wessing Photographic Portrait Prize 2012, National Portrait GalleryThursday, 08 November 2012
The Taylor Wessing Photographic… well, you get the drift. It's quite a long title for what is now one of the most fascinating and wide-ranging exhibitions of photographs mounted in London, and which goes out on tour nationally next year. It is... Read more... |
Manet: Portraying Life, Royal AcademyFriday, 02 November 2012Until 14 April The first major exhibition in the UK to showcas e Édouard Manet’s portraiture. 'Manet: Portraying Life' will include over 5 0 paintings spanning the career of this archetypal modern artist together w ith a selection of pastels and... Read more... |
Taylor Wessing Photographic Portrait Prize, National Portrait Gall eryFriday, 02 November 2012Until 17 February 2013 The Taylor Wessing Photographic Portrai t Prize presents the very best in contemporary portrait photography, showc asing the work of talented young photographers and gifted amateurs alongsid e that of established professionals... Read more... |
Constable, Gainsborough, Turner and the Making of Landscape, Roy al AcademyFriday, 02 November 2012Until 17 February 2013 his exhibition will present works by th e three towering figures of English landscape painting - John Constable RA , Thomas Gainsborough RA and JMW Turner RA - and will explore the developme nt of the British school of... Read more... |
A Bigger Splash: Painting After Performance, Tate ModernFriday, 02 November 2012Until 1 April This exhibition will take a new look at the dy namic relationship between performance and painting since 1950. Contrastingkey paintings by Jackson Pollock and David Hockney, the exhibition consid ers two different approaches to the... Read more... |
Rosemarie Trockel: A Cosmos, Serpentine GalleryFriday, 02 November 2012Until 7 April 2013 For over thirty years Trockel has resiste d an identifiable style. Her practice encompasses knitted paintings and cer amics as well as complex installations involving zoological specimens and c ollections of artefacts produced by... Read more... |
Seduced by Art: Photography Past and Present, National GalleryFriday, 02 November 2012The exhibition explores early photography from the mid-19th cen tury and the most exciting contemporary photographs, alongside historical painting. It takes a provocative look at how photographers use fine art tra ditions, including Old Master... Read more... |
