Heist: London’s First Anti-Gallery
I rubbed shoulders with celebrities (don’t expect me to reel them off) last week for…
Browsing: Art
Sensing Spaces: Architecture Reimagined
The Royal Academy makes a successful break from its usual formula as it invites seven contemporary architects to transform its Beaux-Arts galleries…
Daumier: Visions of Paris
As the RA’s critically-acclaimed celebration of the French visionary enters its final fortnight, Harry Chapman makes a late call to the exhibition the Evening Standard called “an aesthetic boxer’s blow to the heart”…
Peter Doig’s ‘No Foreign Lands’
“The end of painting has been much discussed over the past thirty years. On the strength of this exhibition I don’t believe we’re there yet. Far from it.” Harry Chapman takes in Peter Doig’s current show in Edinburgh…
The MacNab Challenge
“As interest gathers pace in the Royal Academy’s current ‘Australia’ show one observation seems to be that it confirms our preconceptions [about] Australian art.” Harry Lytton finds a surprising twist on art from down under in a forthcoming exhibition…
Australia at the Royal Academy of Arts
“Despite being the world’s sixth largest nation, the land Down Under has been curiously absent from art history’s hall of fame.” Estella visits the latest exhibition at the RA…
Witches & Wicked Bodies
Harry Chapman delves into the dark world of the National Galleries Scotland’s witchcraft exhibition in Edinburgh…
Lowry and the Painting of Modern Life
Lowry’s predictable style can be recognised by even the most unobservant of museum visitor; the…
Jeff Robb: Three Acts of Will
A completely naked women levitates her explicitly feminine body, gravity pulls her hair towards the…
The Royal Academy Summer Exhibition
“The Royal Academy is as prestigious as they come and to be featured in their Summer Exhibition is no mean feat. With over 11,000 pieces submitted for consideration this year, the top 1,200 currently grace its hallowed walls.”
Vermeer: The Art of Music
A painter of the Dutch Golden Age, Johannes Vermeer’s works provide a glimpse into everyday 17th century life in the Netherlands.
George Bellows: Modern American Life
Those taken with the colour and ebullience of Martin Scorsese’s 2002 epic, “Gangs of New…