Category Archives: Art

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Royal Art

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The Royal Academy’s big New Year exhibition is Charles I, King and Collector bringing together paintings and other works collected by the seventeenth century King, many of which have since been dispersed around the world. We went along on Friday … Continue reading

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Festival Art 2018

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Spring 2018 – Jerez de la Frontera is very good at using its iconic and ancient buildings as venues for art. In the thirteenth century Alcazar and Cloisters of Santo Domingo, for example, the eighteenth century Palacio Pelmartin ( which … Continue reading

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Conversation at the Horse Hospital

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The Horse Hospital in Bloomsbury is familiar to the modern art cogniscienti (though not to me). It was what its title suggests, a place for the doctoring of horses, built in 1797, originally as part of the mews behind the … Continue reading

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Political Pots

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Political pots or Pots with Attitude which is the name of a current FREE exhibition at the British Museum. I went to see it last week. Turner prize winner Grayson Perry CBE is probably the most high-profile artist working with pots … Continue reading

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East End Vernacular

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Henry Silk and East End Vernacular is the title of an exhibition currently at Abbott and Holder of Museum Street, London.  It celebrates not only the work of the basket weaver and East End Group member Henry Silk (1883-1948) but … Continue reading