Monday, 17th January 2011
1:20pm
The Fine Art Society is one of the world's oldest art galleries specializing in British art and design from the 17th to the 21st centuries and has traded from 148 New Bond Street, London, since its foundation in 1876. Under the wing of such an established, successful dealership, it is no wonder, then, that its basement baby gallery, FAS Contemporary, initiated as part of the gallery’s refurbishment in 2004-05, has grown from strength to strength, establishing its own program of innovative exhibitions and independent collectors.
Their latest show takes a brave new step in exhibiting neon postcards by Rob and...
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Thursday, 9th December 2010
11:23am
Dulwich Picture Gallery, the first purpose-built public art gallery in England, celebrates its bicentenary in 2011 with a ‘Big Bang’. On 9 January 2011 the gallery plans to host family activities, a special concert, a day of free admission to the permanent collection and an evening display of fireworks, all to celebrate the unveiling of Sir Thomas Lawrence’s Portrait of Sir John Soane (1828-9) (see above), the first of 12 masterpieces on loan to the gallery to be exhibited each month on the end wall of the gallery’s enfilade.
‘Masterpiece a Month’ will feature major works by Velázquez, Vermeer, El...
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Thursday, 2nd December 2010
12:14pm
This Sunday, 5 December 2010, is the last day of ‘Victoria & Albert: Art & Love’, the current exhibition on at the Queen’s Gallery, Buckingham Palace, before it closes for winter. Due to popular demand the show has already been extended – it is the first exhibition ever to focus on Queen Victoria and Prince Albert’s shared enthusiasm for art. This is the same Prince that brought us The Great Exhibition of 1851 and who, together with his wife, amassed one of the most important collections of contemporary and old master art of their time. With a sparkling display of...
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Thursday, 25th November 2010
1:23pm
‘Homage 10x5 - Blake’s Artists’is a good opportunity to learn about some of the most influential artists of the 20th century through the eyes and art of another great contemporary artist.
This is the latest exhibition at Waddington Galleries (until 11 December 2010), and yet another to celebrate the influences of Sir Peter Blake, alongside his collections of curiosities at the Museum of Everything by London’s Primrose Hill (open until Christmas 2010).
It consists of 50 works in homage to 10 artists who have influenced Blake throughout his career: Jospeh Cornell, Sonia Delaunay, Mark Dion, Damien Hirst, Henri Matisse, Jack...
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Monday, 18th October 2010
12:57pm
For the fourth year running, London’s Berkeley Square hosted the Pavilion of Art & Design London (13-17 October), which brought together 50 international exhibitors from Barcelona, Brussels, Cologne, Geneva, London, Milan, New York, Paris and Zurich to showcase and sell their collections of Modern Art, Furniture Design, Photography, Jewellery and Tribal Art from 1860 to today. The fair promotes and demonstrates the strengthening relationship between art and design and its success is reflected in this year’s sales figures: Todd Merrill, New York, sold over 70% of their stand on the first night, including a console by Michael Coffey for $70,000...
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Now in its 30th year, the London Park Lane Arms Fair returns with its annual array of fine arms and armoury. Elsewhere in the capital, impressive surveys of Freud, Hirst and mid-century British art can be found.
George Gilbert Scott described the dome as ‘the noblest of all forms’, and it appears as a powerful symbol in secular and religious architecture throughout history. On the island of Malta, however, the craze for dome-building reached astonishing heights.
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