Recent Posts Tagged With 'galleries'

• 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...

• 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 ...

• Standing in front of the Greatest Painting of the 20th Century…

  Posted on Monday June 16th, 2008 at 13:26 in exhibitions, galleries, madrid, visual arts, modern art, picasso, guernica, cubism, gallery etiquette, posts that at a distance resemble flies, european art galleries

  There are unique difficulties involved in coming face-to-face with one of the most significant paintings the world has ever seen.  As an art lover in Madrid this is a problem you’re going to face on a regular basis, but I still haven’t...

• CEBK Picture of the Week #2

  Posted on Wednesday June 4th, 2008 at 13:30 in galleries, paintings, visual arts, ambassadors, mortality, picture of the week, british art galleries, holbein, northern renaissance

  Who?  Hans Holbein the Younger What?  Portrait of Jean de Dinteville and Georges de Selve.  More commonly known as The Ambassadors. Where?  The National Gallery, London When?  Yesterday, today, tomorrow and long after all of us are gone. Why? ...

• Renaissance explosion!

  Posted on Wednesday June 4th, 2008 at 05:42 in painting, exhibitions, galleries, renaissance, national gallery, prado, british art galleries, forthcoming exhibitions, something topical

  Every so often the art world sneaks out advance warning of an exciting new exhibition on its way to us.  Today was one of those days, with London’s National Gallery releasing details of its fantastic-sounding Renaissance Faces: Van Eyck to Titian....

• No such thing as a free exhibition?

  Posted on Tuesday June 3rd, 2008 at 10:45 in galleries, funding, museums, public access, british art galleries, something topical, british museums, mild controversy

  There is perhaps just one of the many ‘achievements’ of Tony Blair’s New Labour administration that has proved uncontroversial and universally popular.  It also happens to be the only one that directly relates to this blog: the 20...

• John Currin exhibition: what’s the point?

  Posted on Monday June 2nd, 2008 at 06:25 in painting, exhibitions, galleries, pornography, current exhibitions, british art galleries, mild controversy, posts drawn with a very fine camel's-hair brush, currin

  I ventured out of my artistic comfort zone this week to visit the new exhibition of John Currin paintings at Sadie Coles HQ.  Located in the part of London where you get looked down upon if you’re only driving a Rolls Royce, this is the sort o...

• Art Gallery Etiquette 101: overheard

  Posted on Thursday May 29th, 2008 at 17:08 in galleries, tate modern, overheard, duchamp, picabia, man ray, british art galleries, posts that tremble as if they were mad, gallery etiquette

  Everyone knows that the first rule of art galleries is as follows: You do not commune with others in any voice louder than a whisper. The importance of this rule has nothing to do with showing any kind of reverence to the works of art shown (they rea...

• Strangeways, here we come, pt.1: dipping a toe into the cultural ocean of Manchester

  Posted on Wednesday May 28th, 2008 at 18:25 in exhibitions, galleries, prints, manchester, desmet, wittgenstein, piranesi, current exhibitions, british art galleries, posts that at a distance resemble flies, whitworth

    As is often the case when I find myself in a relatively unfamiliar place, a recent weekend in Manchester simply seemed too good an opportunity to miss for sampling at least some of the city’s culture (that is, in addition to the city’...

• CEBK Picture of the Week #1

  Posted on Wednesday May 28th, 2008 at 14:49 in exhibitions, galleries, paintings, visual arts, modern art, picture of the week, dulwich picture gallery, american art, charles sheeler, british art galleries, posts that are included in this classification, ballardvale

    The very, very first in a regular series: Who?  Charles Sheeler What?  Ballardvale Where?  Dulwich Picture Gallery When?  On show as part of the small-but-fascinating Coming of Age: American Art, 1850s to 1950s until 8 June 2008. Why?  Beca...