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It is now sixteen years since the turbine hall and boiler house of the old Bankside Power Station opened, to much acclaim and general popularity, as Tate Modern. In June of this year its latest, and largest, extension was opened … Continue reading
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Tate Modern’s big exhibition of the summer is a large one, thirteen rooms of the work of American Modernism’s first lady. Before attending last Friday I knew little about O’Keeffe (1887 – 1986) other than her huge flower paintings and … Continue reading
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Friday was the one hundredth anniversary of the first day of the ‘Battle of the Somme’, which was really a series of battles lasting one hundred and forty-one days, fought around the River Somme in northern France. There was a two-minute … Continue reading
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Your blogger visited the Royal Academy last Friday, in order to catch The Age of Giorgione exhibition ( see Portrait of a Young Man, left ) before it ended, but was surprised to find herself in the middle of another event … Continue reading
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Free at the National Gallery, London, is the current small exhibition of Dutch paintings of flowers. Timed to coincide with this year’s Flower Shows at Hampton Court and Chelsea you can find it in Room 1 on the left at … Continue reading
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