Visual arts
Richard Hamilton: The Late Works, National GallerySunday, 16 September 2012An exhibition exploring Hamilton's work on a major painting bas ed on Honoré de Balzac’s short story 'Le Chef-d’œuvre inconnu' ('The Unknow n Masterpiece'), which he was working on shortly before his death. Until 1 3 January http://bit.ly/M0JOsX Read more... |
Peter Lely: A Lyrical Vision, Courtauld GallerySunday, 16 September 2012Known principally for his portraits of court beauties, Peter L ely was England’s leading painter from the period of the Civil War to the r eign of Charles II. This exhibition focuses on the artist's all but forgott en early paintings which depict a... Read more... |
Photo Gallery: Everything was Moving - Photography from the 60s and 70s, Barbican GalleryFriday, 14 September 2012
Take the day, and a stiff drink afterwards, as you’ll need it for this thoughtful and deeply disturbing exhibition. A picture, goes the cliché, is worth a thousand words, and nowhere more so than in this heartbreaking, beautiful and affecting... Read more... |
Pre-Raphaelites: Victorian Avant-Garde, Tate BritainWednesday, 12 September 2012
The vividly dramatic story of Isabella, from a poem by Keats (in turn from Boccacio’s Decameron,) crying over her lover Lorenzo, who, base born, was murdered by her brothers, was much admired by the Victorians. The tale is not for the squeamish: the... Read more... |
Bronze, Royal AcademyTuesday, 11 September 2012Works in bronze spanning 5,000 years, and featuring 150 of sc ulptures from Asia, Africa and Europe. Artists from the Renaissance are we ll represented, including Ghiberti, Donatello and Cellini, and later wor ks take us from Rodin to Louise... Read more... |
Pre-Raphaelites: Victorian Avant-Garde, Tate BritainTuesday, 11 September 2012An exhibition that tries to establish PRB as an early example o f the British avant-garde: painters who self-consciously overturned orthodo xy and established a new benchmark for modern painting and design. Until 15January, 2013 http://bit.ly/HwBZ8j Read more... |
Cy Twombly: The Last Paintings/A Survey of Photographs, Gagosian GalleryTuesday, 11 September 2012
There are two exhibitions of Cy Twombly's work at Gagosian Gallery right now. One is fine and will detain you for a few minutes. The other is exactly the revelation we want to refresh and enhance Twombly for his afterlife.In its main gallery are... Read more... |
Art of Change: New Directions from China, Hayward GallerySunday, 09 September 2012
At the Hayward Gallery a young woman falls over backwards; her flight is magically arrested at a gravity-defying point of imbalance. Since she is blinking, one can safely assume that she is alive, present, and human rather than a waxwork or an... Read more... |
John Berger: Art and Property Now, Somerset HouseSaturday, 08 September 2012
John Berger isn’t a man who has suffered through appearing to take himself massively seriously. His way of phrasing his most modest utterance as though the fate of the world’s dispossessed hangs on his trenchancy is insufferable to some. But... Read more... |
Cecil Beaton: Theatre of War, Imperial War MuseumFriday, 07 September 2012
The wide eyed little girl is sitting bolt upright in her hospital bed, clutching her large soft toy, her head encased in a voluminous bandage. Eileen Dunne, aged three, was injured by shrapnel during the London bombing in 1940, and Cecil Beaton’s... Read more... |
Cecil Beaton: Theatre of War, Imperial War MuseumFriday, 07 September 2012Cecil Beaton's glamorous photographs of royalty and celebritiesprojected him to fame but less well-known is his work as a wartime photogr apher. Commissioned by the Ministry of Information in 1940, Beaton was thelongest serving high-profile... Read more... |
Lindsey Seer: Nowhere Less NowFriday, 07 September 2012A journey across time entangling global histories with intimatestories, Seers' site-specific work, commissioned by Artangel, explores image-making mediums, sea-faring and migration. 21 October http://bit.ly/ QLQY29 Read more... |
