A riveting exhibition at the National Gallery spanning Artemisia Gentileschi’s 45-year career displays her best artwork.
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by Carla Scarano • art, books, drawing, exhibitions, painting, sculpture, society, tapestry, textiles, year 2020 • Tags: art, books, Carla Scarano, drawing, exhibitions, painting, sculpture, society •
Tantra: enlightenment to revolution, British Museum. Review by Carla Scarano. culture and tradition are as alive as ever today, as the comprehensive and exhaustive exhibition at the British Museum shows.Â
by Barbara Lewis • art, design, drawing, exhibitions, painting, year 2020 • Tags: art, Barbara Lewis, design, drawing, exhibitions, painting •
Pallant House Gallery. Barnett Freedman: Designs for Modern Britain. Review by Barbara Lewis. Painter and teacher Paul Nash referred to the group of artists he taught in the early 1920s as “an outbreak of talent”.
by Barbara Lewis • art, drawing, exhibitions, painting, photography, sculpture, year 2020 • Tags: art, Barbara Lewis, drawing, exhibitions, painting •
Towner, Eastbourne. Alan Davie and David Hockney: Early Works – plus other exhibitions. Review by Barbara Lewis.
by Carla Scarano • architecture, art, drawing, exhibitions, painting, year 2020 • Tags: art, Carla Scarano, drawing, exhibitions, painting •
The exhibition was organised in collaboration with the Uffizi Galleries and acts as a flash-back to Raphael’s life and career. It starts from his sudden death in Rome five hundred years ago.
by Barbara Lewis • art, drawing, exhibitions, painting • Tags: art, Barbara Lewis, drawing, exhibitions, painting •
William Blake
Venue: Tate Britain, London, until February 2
Curated by Martin Myrone and Amy Concannon
by Carla Scarano • art, books, drawing, exhibitions, fiction, year 2019 • Tags: art, books, Carla Scarano, drawing, exhibitions •
Starting from Alice in Wonderland, re-told as Alice St Claire by Hoshino Yukinobu, the Citi Exhibition Manga at the British Museum invites the visitors to enter the rabbit hole of the fabulous manga imaginary world.
by Barbara Lewis • art, drawing, ecology, economics, exhibitions, installations, society, year 2018 • Tags: art, Barbara Lewis, drawing, ecology, exhibitions, installations, society •
One million plastic bottles are bought every minute and most of them are not recycled. It’s a stark reality Claire Davenport and Grioghair McCord were moved to explore after a trip to a Shetland beach littered with plastic bottles.
by Barbara Lewis • art, drawing, exhibitions, sculpture, year 2019 • Tags: art, Barbara Lewis, drawing, exhibitions, sculpture •
In the first exhibition to explore the evolution of Moore’s artistic obsession, the Wallace Collection brings together more than sixty sketches, drawings, maquettes and full-sized sculptures in plaster, lead and bronze, culminating in his seven Helmet Heads.
by Carla Scarano • architecture, art, design, drawing, exhibitions, fashion, festivals, food, history, installations, painting, poetry, sculpture, society, travel, year 2019 • Tags: architecture, art, Carla Scarano, design, drawing, exhibitions, fashion, festivals, food, installations, painting, poetry, sculpture, society, travel •
Tokyo: a bridge between tradition and modernity, by Carla Scarano D’Antonio. Compared to Kyoto, Tokyo is bigger, busier and cosmopolitan. My friend Ornella and I had plenty of time by ourselves as my daughter was busy with her course at the Bunka Gakuen University where she is attending a Master in Fashion and Design.
by Carla Scarano • art, drawing, exhibitions, painting, sculpture, year 2019 • Tags: art, Carla Scarano, drawing, exhibitions, painting, sculpture •
Surrealism was the driving force that motivated Dorothea Tanning’s career from the 1930s until her death in New York in 2012. It offered her an alternative world that she explored going beyond everyday reality.
by Barbara Lewis • art, drawing, exhibitions, painting, year 2021 • Tags: art, Barbara Lewis, drawing, exhibitions, painting •
A fellow pupil of Leipzig master Bernhard Heisig is the artist ANTOINETTE, who uses only her first name written in capitals. In common with Rauch and other Leipzig artists, she combines meticulous representation with the fantastic or surreal.