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The Celestial Emporium of Benevolent Knowledge

http://umlautampersand.wordpress.com/

Subjective and opinionated reviews on the very best selection of galleries, museums and exhibitions (includng all the ones you haven't heard of yet...)

• Added on: Jun 3rd, 2008
• Country: United Kingdom
• Language: English

• Author: UmlautAmpersand
• Listed in: Visual Arts Culture
• Tags: art Culture painting exhibitions galleries museums

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  Posted on Wednesday August 5th, 2009 at 08:36 in posts drawn with a very fine camel's-hair brush, posts that at a distance resemble flies, posts that are included in this classification, about umlaut-ampersand

• CEBK Exhibit of the Month #2*

  Posted on Saturday August 16th, 2008 at 06:48 in sculpture, exhibitions, galleries, visual arts, current exhibitions, british art galleries, posts that at a distance resemble flies, exhibit of the month

  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

  Posted on Tuesday July 29th, 2008 at 06:45 in emin, british art, current exhibitions, british art galleries, something topical, mild controversy, posts that have just broken the flower vase, gallery etiquette

  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…)

  Posted on Sunday July 27th, 2008 at 09:44 in exhibitions, galleries, tate modern, visual art, tate, current exhibitions, british art galleries, something topical

  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

  Posted on Saturday July 19th, 2008 at 05:01 in exhibitions, galleries, visual arts, picture of the week, op art, bridget riley, british art, current exhibitions, something topical, posts that tremble as if they were mad, european art galleries

    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…

  Posted on Sunday July 13th, 2008 at 07:07 in painting, exhibitions, galleries, madrid, visual arts, goya, prado, current exhibitions, something topical, european art galleries, disasters of war

  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 ...

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