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bludger

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Re: What exhibition have you just been to ?
« Reply #75 on: 24 February, 2020, 03:50:36 pm »
I went to the masculinities exhibit at the Barbican. It is £17 for non members/concessions but I was in there for about 2 hours or so so it didn't feel excessive. I recommend it.

https://www.barbican.org.uk/whats-on/2020/event/masculinities-liberation-through-photography
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Re: What exhibition have you just been to ?
« Reply #76 on: 24 February, 2020, 05:30:17 pm »
Managed to get to the last day of the Buddhism exhibition at the British Library yesterday, after being thwarted and delayed by a week's babysitting and a resultant bad cold cultivated in her nursery earlier.

Interesting to see so much of other cultures and how complex it is. Slightly disappointing that so many exhibits were from the last three centuries, considering it goes back around 2,600 years, but I guess not much material has survived.

Bonus was the exhibition book reduced from £25 to £15 at the end.

Re: What exhibition have you just been to ?
« Reply #77 on: 01 March, 2020, 11:38:36 am »
https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2020/jan/25/mary-beard-nude-art-male-gaze-naked-desire-female-perspective


New series looking at posh porn.....     Didn't John Berger's "Ways of Seeing" cover this as well ?


https://twitter.com/BarbieReports   Interesting, educational & amusing.
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Re: What exhibition have you just been to ?
« Reply #78 on: 02 March, 2020, 12:13:49 am »
https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2020/jan/25/mary-beard-nude-art-male-gaze-naked-desire-female-perspective


New series looking at posh porn.....     Didn't John Berger's "Ways of Seeing" cover this as well ?


https://twitter.com/BarbieReports   Interesting, educational & amusing.


And she mentions Kathe Kollwitz, a,sadly, little known genius.

Jaded

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Re: What exhibition have you just been to ?
« Reply #79 on: 02 March, 2020, 08:30:20 am »
Indeed. Went to her gallery in a Berlin a couple of years ago.
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Re: What exhibition have you just been to ?
« Reply #80 on: 02 March, 2020, 10:42:31 am »
Indeed. Went to her gallery in a Berlin a couple of years ago.

I'm envious!

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Re: What exhibition have you just been to ?
« Reply #81 on: 15 March, 2020, 09:16:29 am »
There was a decent Kathe Kollwitz exhibition at the British Museum.

Went to see British Baroque at the Tate Britain. Some nice sketchbooks and architectural plans, plus loads of old blokes in wigs and stockings.

Re: What exhibition have you just been to ?
« Reply #82 on: 04 August, 2020, 01:06:26 pm »
https://instytutpolski.pl/london/2020/08/03/young-poland-the-polish-arts-and-crafts-movement-1890-1918/


https://twitter.com/PLInst_London/status/1290610310542512132?s=20


Looks interesting.   Whether or not we'll be able to see it is a different  matter.    I've not been to any galleries since they re-opened.   :(




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Re: What exhibition have you just been to ?
« Reply #83 on: 29 September, 2020, 05:51:24 pm »
https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2020/sep/29/artemisia-gentileschi-review-national-gallery-london


https://www.apollo-magazine.com/artemisia-gentileschi-london/


I'd like to go & see this , but at the moment it doesn't seem too advisable  :(       2 hours on a train , then shuffling around the gallery with my glasses misting up because of a facemask. 
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Re: What exhibition have you just been to ?
« Reply #86 on: 15 October, 2020, 11:50:48 pm »




It is simpler than it looks.

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Re: What exhibition have you just been to ?
« Reply #87 on: 16 October, 2020, 12:22:47 am »



I'll have to rename this thread, "Exhibitions I'd Like To See But Have Missed Due To Covid"


https://www.apollo-magazine.com/barnett-freedman-pallant-house-exhibition-review/


https://www.artuk.org/discover/stories/barnett-freedman-between-art-and-innovative-design


https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2020/aug/23/barnett-freedman-designs-for-modern-britain-pallant-house-gallery-review-master-of-all-trades


Thanks for the heads-up, went and saw this yesterday. I was most taken with seeing the lithograph stones for (IIRC) Anna Karenina. They gave a real insight into how the works are produced. Masterful.

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Re: What exhibition have you just been to ?
« Reply #89 on: 06 December, 2020, 11:27:59 pm »
https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2020/sep/29/artemisia-gentileschi-review-national-gallery-london


https://www.apollo-magazine.com/artemisia-gentileschi-london/


I'd like to go & see this , but at the moment it doesn't seem too advisable  :(       2 hours on a train , then shuffling around the gallery with my glasses misting up because of a facemask.


I took a chance & popped down to London to see the Artemisa & Titian exhibitions at the National Gallery.    Both fantastic & thankfully not crowded. 


https://www.burlington.org.uk/archive/exhibition-review/titian-love-desire-death


The next day I popped into Buck House (and set off the metal detector again, damn watch!)  Some of the stuff you don't usually get to see is on display in the Queens Gallery.  This was quite busy, but they were not running a 1 way system, so I could go back to look at things a 2nd time.   Some fantastic Rembrandt's I hadn't previously seen, and a couple of Canaletto's that made me want to do another trip to Venice.


https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2020/dec/02/queens-caravaggio-masterpieces-buckingham-palace-review


https://www.rct.uk/collection/themes/exhibitions/masterpieces-from-buckingham-palace/the-queens-gallery-buckingham


My pics here.  https://www.flickr.com/photos/andrewclark/sets/72157717193102092/






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Re: What exhibition have you just been to ?
« Reply #90 on: 29 June, 2021, 09:41:43 pm »

Many, many years ago when I was doing A level chemistry one of our teachers arranged for us to go to a series of lectures at Liverpool University ,  he used to tell us to meet up before the lecture in the "Augustus John", a pub on the campus where we could get served.  He'd probably get sacked for that these days.   I failed my exams, but ended up a regular visitor to pubs........     I never understood the significance of the AJ's name. 

As I'm now double jabbed I took the risk of venturing over to the Lady Lever Gallery for their current exhibition "The Last Bohemian:Augustus John" .  Small, but perfectly formed, 3 rooms of sketches, etchings & paintings with historical information about the man himself & his career, from his years at the Slade (same class as William Orpen) , his unconventional domestic life and his fascination with Romany culture which developed when he was an art teacher at Liverpool.


https://www.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk/whatson/lady-lever-art-gallery/exhibition/last-bohemian-augustus-john


https://travelswithmyart.wordpress.com/2021/06/05/the-last-bohemian-augustus-john-at-lady-lever/















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Re: What exhibition have you just been to ?
« Reply #91 on: 30 June, 2021, 05:05:32 pm »
Andrew, is the bottom one of Dylan Thomas?

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Re: What exhibition have you just been to ?
« Reply #92 on: 30 June, 2021, 05:10:27 pm »
Andrew, is the bottom one of Dylan Thomas?

Whoever he was…

 ;D
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Re: What exhibition have you just been to ?
« Reply #93 on: 30 June, 2021, 05:24:35 pm »

Many, many years ago when I was doing A level chemistry one of our teachers arranged for us to go to a series of lectures at Liverpool University ,  he used to tell us to meet up before the lecture in the "Augustus John", a pub on the campus where we could get served.  He'd probably get sacked for that these days.   I failed my exams, but ended up a regular visitor to pubs........     I never understood the significance of the AJ's name. 
ANDREW!

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Re: What exhibition have you just been to ?
« Reply #94 on: 30 June, 2021, 06:18:33 pm »
Andrew, is the bottom one of Dylan Thomas?

Whoever he was…

 :-D


It is Dylan Thomas.  The descriptive text stated that John sexually assaulted Caitlin MacNamara when she modelled for him as a young girl, he then had an ongoing relationship with her until he introduced her to Thomas  who promptly married her.


https://littleaugury.blogspot.com/2012/01/thats-life-women-he-loved-augustus-john.html


http://adrinkershistoryoflondon.com/tag/london-in-the-1980s/
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Re: What exhibition have you just been to ?
« Reply #95 on: 05 July, 2021, 10:48:36 am »
Thanks, Andrew - I missed this when you posted it.

Re: What exhibition have you just been to ?
« Reply #96 on: 02 November, 2021, 10:06:58 pm »
https://www.flickr.com/photos/andrewclark/albums/72157720088716523


Off to That London again.    Frans Hals "Male Portraits" at the Wallace Collection.  I enjoyed looking at these & also enjoyed the audio commentary from Grayson Perry on the masculine presentation of the sitters, to the point of laughing out loud a few times.   One of the pictures reminded me of David Cameron, all shiny cheeked entitlement  >:(     The only bad part of the visit was in the Gents toilet, where I caught site of my pants down profile in the mirror. I'm starting to look like one of Hals's portly brewers!


https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2021/sep/26/frans-hals-the-male-portrait-wallace-collection-review-painting-as-performance-art


https://www.telegraph.co.uk/art/what-to-see/frans-hals-male-portrait-review-pale-stale-male-exhilarating/


Then across to the National Gallery for  Poussin and the dance.   Cavorting nymphs & horny satyrs partying in woodland glades. 


https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2021/oct/10/poussin-and-the-dance-national-gallery-london-review


https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2021/oct/05/poussin-dance-review-national-gallery-london


Also saw the free exhibition of Bellotto's "Views on a fortress" and now I want to do  a bike tour up the Elbe!   This exhibition is now closed in London but is being shown at Manchester.


https://manchesterartgallery.org/exhibitions-and-events/exhibition/bellotto-views-on-a-fortress/
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Re: What exhibition have you just been to ?
« Reply #97 on: 16 November, 2021, 09:42:37 pm »
My pictures from the Hals & Poussin exhibitions are here.  https://www.flickr.com/photos/andrewclark/albums/72157720088716523


See of you can guess which one I thought looked like slimey Cameron......


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Re: What exhibition have you just been to ?
« Reply #98 on: 16 November, 2021, 10:16:39 pm »
On Saturday I braved our Northern rail system & travelled to Wakefield via Leeds.  This took longer than travelling to London.


The object of my visit was the fantastic Hepworth Gallery,  several brutal conjoined concrete blocks perched in a bight of the River Calder.


I was familiar with Hepworth's sculptures from various galleries, but didn't know she was such a superb sketcher & really enjoyed her drawings, especially the surgical series when she was invited to observe several operations.





https://www.flickr.com/photos/andrewclark/albums/72157720148654127


https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2021/may/30/barbara-hepworth-art-and-life-hepworth-wakefield-review


https://www.designcurial.com/news/book-review-barbara-hepworth-art-life-8821108/


https://newsflash.one/2021/05/29/barbara-hepworth-by-eleanor-clayton-review-art-and-life/


I also managed a quick visit to Wakefield Cathedral.  https://www.flickr.com/photos/andrewclark/albums/72157720138319943
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