Category: Exhibition
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Beyond the Brotherhood: The Pre-Raphaelite Legacy
It seems a long time since we could travel to visit exhibitions, but two months ago I was able to attend the opening event for the ‘Beyond the Brotherhood’ exhibition at the Russell-Cotes Art Gallery and Museum in Bournemouth. After a crazy couple of months, I have been revisiting it via the excellent catalogue, which…
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Exhibition Review: Pre-Raphaelite Sisters
It feels as though the Pre-Raphaelite women are getting some recognition these days, both inside and outside academia. It’s wonderful to see so much enthusiasm for women who have historically been little more than a footnote in art history. In the Pre-Raphaelite Sisters exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery, curated by Dr Jan Marsh and…
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Exhibition: Look Beneath the Lustre (Evelyn and William de Morgan)
Look Beneath the Lustre: a de Morgan Foundation exhibition at Wightwick Manor, from September 1st 2019. This exhibition invites us to look more closely at the skill and methods that underpin the striking work of William and Evelyn de Morgan. It consists of a number of works not previously on display in the De Morgan…
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Vuillard: The Poetry of the Everyday
Édouard Vuillard (1868-1940) is a painter one doesn’t hear much (enough?) about. The Holburne Museum in Bath has an extensive exhibition, open until September 15th, which shows why we should pay more attention to him. The title caught my eye: we describe things as ‘poetic’ without thinking too much about why we are paralleling them…
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Munnings in Cornwall
It’s always a pleasure to visit Penlee House Gallery in Penzance, and the current exhibition on Alfred Munnings in Cornwall is no exception, marking 60 years since the artist’s death. As with all their exhibitions, there is a strong Cornish link, but with a wider, national significance. Munnings is, of course, best known for his…
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Exhibition Review: Matisse and Diaghilev
Worcester Art Gallery currently has two, separate but linked, exhibitions, running until April 27th: Matisse: Drawing with Scissors and Diaghilev’s Ballets Russes. The Matisse works are lithographs of the artist’s late works, touring from the Hayward Gallery, including the iconic Blue Nudes series. These works were created when Matisse was in his eighties, bed-bound, using…
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Exhibition Review: Leonardo 500 (Birmingham)
During half-term I went to see the ‘Leonardo da Vinci: A Life in Drawing‘ exhibition at BMAG (Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery) with my seven-year-old son. February marks the 500th anniversary of Leonardo’s death, so 12 of his drawings from the Royal Collection are on display at BMAG, and 11 other venues across the UK.…
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Rossetti before Pre-Raphaelitism
Wightwick Manor, the beautiful Arts and Crafts house near Wolverhampton, has finally closed its wonderful Elizabeth Siddall exhibition (though there are still many of Siddall’s works, and those of other women Pre-Raphaelites, on display), and its next exhibition, due to open on March 4th 2019, is of a collection of early drawings by Dante Gabriel…