by Hannah Kane | Mar 12, 2015 | Culture
Gone are the days of the Grand Tour – luxurious trips where the British elite would peruse the art and culture of Europe and bring back treasures to hang in their country estates. Fast-forward to 2015 and the democratising power of the internet and proliferation...
by Hannah Kane | Mar 11, 2015 | Culture
Julie Reid ‘meets’ the man who changed art forever Photograph of Paul Durand-Ruel in his gallery, taken by Dornac, about 1910 © Archives Durand-Ruel © Durand-Ruel & Cie In some respects Impressionism has become something of a cliché, with its...
by Hannah Kane | Mar 4, 2015 | Culture
Julie Reid finds Marlene Dumas light on hope, heavy on beauty Marlene Dumas, The Image as Burden 1993 © Marlene Dumas. Photo: Peter Cox Once labeled ‘the world’s most interesting figure painter’, Marlene Dumas (b.1953) is famous (although not quite as famous as she...
by Hannah Kane | Feb 24, 2015 | Culture
Every artist has milestones. Ewa Wilcynski reached one last Wednesday night. Her inaugural solo exhibition won’t be forgotten in a hurry, not least of all because it was held at the Royal Academy of Art – a coup in the career of any painter. Located...
by Hannah Kane | Feb 20, 2015 | Culture
Julie Reid gets happy…in a tortured sort of way David Beames (Willie) and Juliet Stevenson (Winnie) in Happy Days at the Young Vic. Photo by Johan Persson The Young Vic’s new production opens with Winnie, a middle-aged woman, buried in the ground up to her...
