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Chelsea Antiques Fair Returns Following Town Hall Refurbishment
The Chelsea Antiques Fair takes place from 20th – 24th March and returns to its venerable King’s Road venue, Chelsea Old Town Hall, after a year’s absence when the hall been restored and redecorated....
View ArticleHarald Sohlberg: Painting Norway at Dulwich Picture Gallery
One is tempted to wheel out that old chestnut about naming ten famous Belgians; most people can come up with half a dozen, although two of those usually mentioned, are characters from fiction. On the...
View ArticleThe Idiot at the Coronet
Fyodor Dostoyevsky’s The Idiot was published in 1864 [in a series of installments naturally] and is frequently held up as one of the artistic high points of the Russian literary boom of the 19th...
View ArticleLes Miserables
The cottage industry of ‘Les Mis’ has gradually occluded Victor Hugo’s mammoth opus in much the same way as an encrustacean of barnacles cloak a ship’s hull. Over 50 years of dreaming a dream and...
View ArticleSorolla: Spanish Master of Light at the National Gallery
This will be the first UK retrospective of the artist since 1908 when Sorolla himself mounted an exhibition at London’s Grafton Galleries where he was promoted as ‘The World’s Greatest Living...
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Ashbourne College exhibit students art in evening of creativity
The Creative Arts event, hosted by Ashbourne College exhibited pupils work on the 26th March, displaying everything from fashion and textiles to graphics and fine art. The students, who have been...
View ArticleThe Twilight Zone at the Ambassador’s Theatre
‘The Twilight Zone’ originally ran (in flickering black and white naturally) from 1959-1964. For many of the original audience, Rod Serling’s twist-happy morality tales were their first introduction...
View ArticleThe British and Continental Pictures Auction on the 17th April at Olympia...
The British and Continental Pictures Auction on the 17th April at Olympia Auctions (www.OlympiaAuctions.com), is particularly strong in modern British pictures with works by exponents in the field...
View ArticleVan Gogh and Britain at Tate Britain
Judging from the title, Van Gogh and Britain looked as though it would be, on paper, at least, if not exactly padded out, certainly well-upholstered. Although he did a few drawings during his...
View ArticleEmma Kunz: Visionary Drawings
Not knowing anything about spiritual art, drawing with a pendulum or healing, I entered the Serpentine Gallery wide-eyed, and with a fairly open mind. The exhibition of Emma Kunz’s geometric drawings...
View ArticleDeath of the Author: Victor Hugo
To complement our retrospective on ‘Les Miserables’ our second ‘Death of the Author’ features the larger than life self-regarding genius of Victor Hugo Whilst it is ‘Les Miserables’ that truly cemented...
View ArticleAn Older Issue
The London Mayor’s housing focus has been largely based around starter homes for the younger generation and affordable housing; admirable intent and doubtless vote winners. Solutions to the London and...
View ArticleDiscover Rhodes this Summer
There are so many reasons why you should choose to visit Rhodes this season. A place with long history and rich tradition, considered the capital of the Greek islands. The Greek island of Rhodes is an...
View ArticleMalta and Gozo: An artist’s view
Richard Cole was a cartoonist for The Times, The Daily Telegraph, CBS and Channel 4 News, amongst others, in the time-honoured, cross-hatched style of David Levine. His drawing of the then Labour...
View ArticleSmoke and Mirrors: The psychology of magic
My only real close contact with a magician, was with a delightful nonagenarian, and survivor of the horrors of the Burma Railway, called Fergus Anckorn, who died two years ago aged 99; the oldest...
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Damien Hirst paintings donated to British Museum
73 portrait drawings of Damien Hirst’s former business manager allocated to the British Museum under the Cultural Gifts Scheme A collection of 73 portraits of Frank Dunphy by Damien Hirst, known as”The...
View ArticleWho’s Afraid of Drawing? at the Estorick Collection
Who’s afraid of . . . ? What? Why drawing? And who is afraid of drawing? Not many of the artists featured in this new show in Canonbury Square, surely? Umberto Boccioni was an influential Futurist...
View ArticleSpaziale! at Opera Gallery London
Opera Gallery has announced the launch of Spaziale! (17 – 29 May 2019), a new exhibition centred on the art movement of Spatialism and gathering some of the most celebrated Italian artists of the...
View ArticleThe Glass Piano at the Coronet Theatre
It’s perhaps telling that not even rampant monarchists believe in the concept of the inherent superiority of royalty anymore. Whether they believe that they serve as a counterbalance to government, or...
View ArticleWriting: Making Your Mark at the British Library
The more integral something is to our daily existence, the easier it is to take it for granted. After all no one’s hobby list includes ‘respiration’, and so among mankind’s achievements the written...
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