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The Celestial Emporium of Benevolent Knowledge
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Subjective and opinionated reviews on the very best selection of galleries, museums and exhibitions (includng all the ones you haven't heard of yet...)
Recent Posts
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CEBK Exhibit of the Month #2*
Wow, a giant! Not quite. Don’t be misled, those are actually very small houses… Like doll’s houses? Exactly like doll’s houses… Collected by the British artist Rachel Whiteread over two decades and kept in her b...
Art Gallery Etiquette 101: smash ‘n’ bump things
This is the second in an occasional series on the right and proper way to behave in an art gallery. But I really made a terrible error before. Because this is Art Gallery Etiquette 101, lesson 1. Really, this is it… Because you can g...
Street & Studio: an abridged history of photographic consent (or the lack of…)
Read the papers: modern life is symbolised by the recalcitrant mosquito swarm of the paparazzi; the beleaguered celebrity constant prey to the hordes of vicious fucks with the telephoto lenses. And well, yeah, they are. But then they also have th...
CEBK Picture of the Week #5
I’m a little embarrassed by the few female artists this blog has featured in recent weeks, so here’s a Picture of the Week by arguably Britain’s greatest living artist. No tokenism here though, this is stunning… ...
Goya in Times of War: the verdict…
To the best of my knowledge, this is only the second English language review of the Prado’s ambitious Goya in Times of War exhibition thus far. As such, I feel the weight of such an important duty rest heavily on my shoulders - I only hope ...

