Tag Archives: national gallery

New Exhibition On My Must-Go List

A new exhibition has just opened at the National Gallery, London, which must be a must (you know what I mean!) despite its being portraits (and you know what I think of portraits!) Facing the Modern: The Portrait in Vienna … Continue reading

Posted in Art, Art Gallery, Artists, exhibition | Tagged , , , , , , , , | 2 Comments

London 3 – And Finally…..!

Rosie says she can’t wait for Part 3 of our sojourn in London – and she doesn’t even know she features in this part! Three more exhibitions to tell you about. That’ll take some time, won’t it? Not as long … Continue reading

Posted in Art, Art Gallery, Artists, Cartoon, exhibition, Marketing | Tagged , , , , , , | 21 Comments

Snippets From The Torygraph

There were a couple of art items in yesterday’s Daily Torygraph. In the Obits section (my sister is worried because I look at the obituaries and thinks I need to ‘get a life’) there was a piece about the death … Continue reading

Posted in Art, Art Gallery, Artists, exhibition | Tagged , , , , , , , | 13 Comments

100 (or 20 of them, at least) for 2013

Today’s Seven in the Sunday Telegraph had “2013 – The 100 Things You Should Know”, a nine-page preview of the arts in 2013. It included theatre, TV, music, dance and so on, but I’m extracting the visual arts exhibitions. (As … Continue reading

Posted in Art, Art Gallery, exhibition | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | 4 Comments

From Saensbury Wing to Sainsbury Wing

(Or “Inspiration at the National Gallery II”) (The story so far: Our intrepid hero, accompanied by his wife, the Management, has visited the Bronze exhibition at the Royal Academy and the Richard Hamilton: Late Works exhibition in the main building … Continue reading

Posted in Art, Art Gallery, Artists, exhibition, Painting, Photography | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | 8 Comments

Inspiration at the National Gallery I

Yesterday I wrote about the Bronze exhibition at the Royal Academy which was the main reason for our trip down to London. Unfortunately, we seemed to be there at change-over time for some exhibitions. We want to go down again … Continue reading

Posted in Art, Art Gallery, Artists, exhibition, Painting, Photography | Tagged , , , , , , , , , | 7 Comments

Russian Guards, the National Gallery and the End of The Great War

Today’s Seven magazine with The Sunday Telegraph had a photograph from Andy Freeberg’s “Guardians” series. It is part of a show at Somerset House which explores the legacy of Henri Cartier Bresson. It shows one of the female guards in … Continue reading

Posted in Art, Art Gallery, Artists, exhibition, Photography | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | Leave a comment

The First Time Ever I Saw …

This morning’s Review in the Daily Telegraph had an interesting article called “The Shock of the Old” in which “five leading artists describe the paintings that changed their lives”. The article was an edited extract from “In My View: Personal … Continue reading

Posted in Art, Art Gallery, Artists, Painting, Works | Tagged , , , , , , , , | 6 Comments

Why go to exhibitions?

Having reblogged three posts by other people, it is time to add a post of my own which has been prompted by today’s artdaily.org newsletter. It reported that an exhibition is about to start at the Museum of Fine Arts, … Continue reading

Posted in Art, Art Gallery, Artists, exhibition, Painting, Sculpture, Works | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | 8 Comments

St Sebastian – why are there so many paintings?

Isn’t Wikipedia great? For years I’ve been under a misapprehension. One – St Sebastian was a martyr. Two – He is invariably shown tied to a tree with arrows sticking out of him. Ergo – He was killed by arrows. … Continue reading

Posted in Art Gallery, Artists, exhibition, Painting | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | Leave a comment