Tag: Art
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MUNCH- MISERY & MELANCHOLY
When the Munch exhibition came to London, I saw it at the Coulthard, and when it went to Paris as a larger exhibition, I headed to the city to see it on a short hop and skip of a plane ride away. I’ve admired the works of Munch for as long as I can remember…
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ON ART – CURATING A COLLECTION
I know no one who loves art like my sister, she would do most anything for a work of art that she loves, we have entered auctions together and held hands in the nail biting countdown to a winning bid. It is a drug and the high last forever, as long as you see the…
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FLORENCE in 120 Minutes- ESCHER
On the way home from the dreamiest of places with a couple hours to kill, Florence was a whistle stop and it was fortuitous that an exhibition on Escher was on in the Museum of Innocence, up the road from il Duomo. Which it turns out was all we had time for. ESCHER: a visionary…
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PAULA REGO | A RETROSPECTIVE
It is October… how is it October?! It is literally less than 100 days to Christmas. How are you doing? Good? Good. We move. A few summers ago I spent a short stop in Lisbon and took the train to the bucket list destination in Cascais, the seaside town which I talk about on the…
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Manuel Amado | An Extraordinary Ordinariness
Curated by Paula Rego and Catarina Alfaro- The Summer Was Just Like A House To Live In, Where Everything Is… Casa das Historías, Cascais Portugal One of the best things about Art and certain artists is their ability to interprete the ordinary and make it a little less so. The more successful ones do it…
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LONDON- 3 EXHIBITIONS
We are almost there… let’s just hold the line and our nerve, here is light at the end of the tunnel and we are going to have an epic spring summer fall… trust me babes I got you. I all for jumping on an plane at any given time, you know that, but in light…
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A NIGHT SCENE- PETER PAUL RUBENS
A Night Scene With An Old Lady Holding A Basket And A Candle, A Young Boy At Her Side About To Light His Candle From Hers – A mouthful (also is that the title of the painting) the Mauritshuis says its An Old Woman and Boy with Candle… either way, either name, its a painting…
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London | A Countervailing Theory- Toyin Ojih Odutola
Its a story about re-writing history, changing the narrative of how we came to be as entities; nations, people, defined roles, traditions and customs. This is challenging the patriarchy whilst enhancing the matriarchy and an imagined way of the world different from the history we have been taught. It presents a concept of what if…
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A Tale Of Two Portraits | Mimi Afrika 2013 & Girl With A Pearl Earring c 1665
Centuries apart, yet close together on opposite ends of the spectrum, these works depict a story about society. Girl With A Pearl Earring is my second favourite Vermeer paintings (Girl reading a letter at an open window is my first), a master of light and creator of context in the mundane. This painting however, marks…