London Grip Poetry Review – Alex Josephy
Maria C. McCarthy commends Alex Josephy’s illustrated selection of poems about Tuscany
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London Grip Poetry Review – John Greening
Stuart Henson reflects on the serendipity that led to the creation of a high-quality artist’s book from Redfox Press which combines photographic images with poems by John Greening
Christian Dior: Designer of Dreams. Review by Carla Scarano.
Two hundred unique artistic creations by Christian Dior and his successors are featured at the V&A exhibition.
Marthe de Meligny, Pierre Bonnard exhibition, Tate Modern. Review by Jane McChrystal.
For many of us stuck here in the grey fastness of a London winter, a visit to the 2019 Pierre Bonnard exhibition has brought some welcome relief.
London Grip Poetry Review – Carol DeVaughn
D A Prince appreciates the subtle way in which the two parts of Carol DeVaughn’s collection fit together
Your Culture is not mine…or is it? America’s tense relationship with high culture. By Stephanie V Sears
As a half French, half American individual, I give in to a pastime common to double nationals, which consists of regularly comparing both countries of origin.
Three free exhibitions at the Ashmolean Museum of Art and Archaeology. Review by Carla Scarano.
Sometimes free exhibitions are as interesting as ones you pay for. This is the case of three free exhibitions displayed in three different rooms at the Ashmolean museum in Oxford.
East End Suffragettes: the photographs of Norah Smyth. By Jane McChrystal.
If you can get along to Bethnal Green in the next three weeks, I highly recommend a visit to this exhibition of photographs. They document a dramatic period in the history of the East London.
A place that exists only in moonlight. Turner Contemporary. Katie Paterson & JMW Turner. Review by Fiona Sinclair.
There is a natural symbiosis between the two artists in this exhibition. Both, although divided by centuries, seek to present the relationship between man and his place in the universe.
Balla: Villa Borghese. Review by Carla Scarano.
The Museum Carlo Bilotti is located in the elegant edifice of the Orangery in the park of Villa Borghese. It is one of the many and interesting museums of the Municipality of Rome scattered around the capital, and is free of charge.
Housing Ordinary People in London, by Jane McChrystal.
The Russian architect Berthold Lubetkin once declared “Nothing is too Good for Ordinary People”* and as a founder of the radical Tecton group he designed municipal housing which combined the creation of healthy spaces, where people could live healthy lives, with the expression of his modernist aesthetic.
The Swan Princess: Russian Art, Munch Museum, Oslo. Review by Barbara Lewis
Edvard Munch from next year will be displayed in a new aluminium tower that has divided local opinion as it changes the skyline near Oslo’s iceberg-like opera house on the waterfront.