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Rachel Whiteread

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Rachel Whiteread is one of a handful of modern British artists whose name is known beyond the modern-art loving population, to the wider general public. British enthusiasm for modern and/or conceptual art has definitely increased in the early years of the … Continue reading

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Impressionists in London

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Impressionists in London, Tate Britain’s big Winter show of 2017/18 hasn’t garnered overwhelming approval in the review columns. Nonetheless we went along earlier this week to take a look. It isn’t a huge, superlative attracting show but it does include … Continue reading

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The Foundling Hospital

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The Museum of the Foundling Hospital, London is a little known gem. If you’re in London, do go and seek it out, it is very definitely worth a visit. Established by Captain Thomas Coram in 1739, with a lot of … Continue reading

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Welcome to Saxnot

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On Thursday evening I entered Scott King’s world of Saxnot at Studio Voltaire, Clapham. What is Welcome to Saxnot? Physically, it is an installation consisting of a series of free–standing infographic works, written material, including a Welcome to Saxnot brochure, … Continue reading

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Falling off a ladder….

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is an unlikely subject for an oil painting. But there is such a painting (see left), about the accident which befell one of the most famous Andalucian painters, the Baroque master, Bartolome Murillo. The painting shows a prone Murillo being … Continue reading