Category Archives: Culture Vulture

Exhibitions, events, book and antiques fairs, festivals and other happenings in London, UK.

Gallery

Conversation at the Horse Hospital

This gallery contains 1 photos.

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

Gallery

Political Pots

This gallery contains 8 photos.

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

Gallery

East End Vernacular

This gallery contains 7 photos.

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

Gallery

Did the earth move for you?

This gallery contains 7 photos.

It may have done if you visited the Earth Galleries of the Natural History Museum in South Kensington. It had been years since I went to the Earth Galleries, accompanying visiting friends who had young children, so I was unprepared … Continue reading

Gallery

Rachel Whiteread

This gallery contains 4 photos.

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