Once the London home of the Marquises of Hertford, Hertford House stands in the peaceful Georgian Manchester Square, just north of the bustle of Oxford Street (the nearest tube station is Bond Street, Central and Jubilee lines). Built around 1776, at the … Continue reading
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… is the title of the Singer Sargent exhibition currently showing at the National Portrait Gallery. I attended on a blustery Monday morning, amid tourists and pensioners, though the crowds weren’t too pressing. And it’s a most appropriate title. Unlike … Continue reading
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Truth & Memory, British Art of the First World War is a small, but interesting, and instructive, exhibition at the Imperial War Museum, Lambeth Road, which I visited, while the sun was shining, earlier today. It includes remarkable paintings by Nash, Spencer … Continue reading
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Yes, The Story Bazaar will be publishing a collection of short stories, but this is an exhibition of Small Stories, specifically, doll’s houses, at the V & A Museum of Childhood in Bethnal Green. The Museum, a cavernous space just … Continue reading
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Home and working space of the eminent Victorian artist and President of the Royal Academy, Frederic, Lord Leighton, the Leighton House Museum in Holland Park is worth a visit at any time, but especially now, as it currently hosts an exhibition … Continue reading
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