Category Archives: Art

Gallery

Maggi Hambling

This gallery contains 6 photos.

I confess that I first came across Maggi Hambling in the 1980s as a team captain  in a short-lived modern art TV quiz show called ‘Gallery’.  Fellow panelists, including George Melly and Frank Whitford, looked very inebriated and everyone behaved … Continue reading

Gallery

On the wings of imagination

This gallery contains 8 photos.

On Wednesday I went to Java, Bali and Indonesia by way of the magic carpet which lies to the north of Great Russell Street. For the first time ever in my experience there were so many people wishing to visit … Continue reading

Gallery

Last Chance to see wonderful FREE Anthony Gormley

This gallery contains 6 photos.

I don’t usually post articles on a Friday but I had to do this one, because this excellent and FREE exhibition closes on Sunday. So this really is the last chance to see it and, given that almost all the … Continue reading

Gallery

Rest and its Discontents

This gallery contains 8 photos.

…is the name of a new, free, exhibition at the Mile End Art Pavilion in East London. Based on the work coming out of Hubbub, a two year residency at the Wellcome Collection by fifty international artists, writers, social scientists, … Continue reading

Gallery

Salt and Stones; Edward Burtynsky

This gallery contains 5 photos.

Given that the titles of two recent blog pieces of mine were ‘Salt’ and ‘Stones’ I couldn’t resist bring them together in a report on a photographic exhibition at Flowers Gallery, Hoxton, of the work of the Canadian photographer, Edward … Continue reading