The risk for any exhibition at Two Temple Place – a glorious late Victorian mansion at Temple, central London – is that the wood carving and stained-glass beauty of the building will steal the show.
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by Carla Scarano • art, exhibitions, installations, sculpture, year 2019 • Tags: art, Carla Scarano, exhibitions, installations, sculpture •
In the astonishing setting of Kew Gardens, the organic shapes and luminous colours of Chihuly’s glass sculptures stand out and merge with the landscape.Â
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 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, exhibitions, installations, painting, year 2018 • Tags: art, Carla Scarano, exhibitions, installations, painting •
A daring exhibition of Yayoi Kusama’s work at Victoria Miro Art Gallery.
by Barbara Lewis • art, design, exhibitions, installations, year 2018 • Tags: art, Barbara Lewis, design, exhibitions, installations •
It’s testimony to the vibrant creativity and style of Sao Paulo that its international art festival – SP-Arte – can transform an object as potentially mundane and outdated as the tea trolley into a pinnacle of design.
by Jane McChrystal • art, exhibitions, installations, sculpture, year 2018 • Tags: art, exhibitions, Jane McChrystal, sculpture •
Henry Moore enthusiasts could do worse on this rainy Easter Week than to head for Canary Wharf and see this exhibition, which tells the story of the creation of the Draped Seated Figure, now known as “Old Flo”, and her changing fortunes over the past fifty years.
by Michael Bartholomew-Biggs • installations, poetry, politics, year 2017 • Tags: installations, Michael Bartholomew-Biggs, poetry, politics • 0 Comments
A temporary installation in Bloomsbury Square is a powerful reminder of the work of exiled Russian poets in the last century
by Barbara Lewis • art, exhibitions, installations, sculpture, year 2017 • Tags: art, Barbara Lewis, exhibitions, installations •
For an artist whose career is based on confronting the spaces we either ignore or deliberately avoid, the now-demolished BBC office that reputedly inspired Room 101 in George Orwell’s 1984 is perfect subject-matter.
by Barbara Lewis • art, drawing, exhibitions, installations, painting, sculpture, year 2017 • Tags: art, Barbara Lewis, drawing, exhibitions, sculpture •
Art is Comic, billed as a light-hearted response to terror, is the latest exhibition to embrace rough, industrial brickwork as the perfect backdrop for popular artists with hundreds of thousands of followers and an outwardly casual attitude towards failing politics and social injustice.
by Barbara Lewis • art, drawing, exhibitions, installations, painting, year 2016 • Tags: art, Barbara Lewis, drawing, exhibitions, installations •
From stylised art nouveau temptresses to giant Tintin cartoons, Brussels has an established tradition of putting art on the outside of its buildings as well as inside. The capital’s newest gallery in a former brewery in Molenbeek – the neighbourhood notorious as a breeding ground of the Paris and Brussels terror attacks – captures that spirit.
by Barbara Lewis • art, exhibitions, installations, photography, sculpture, year 2020 • Tags: art, Barbara Lewis, exhibitions, installations, photography, sculpture •
Farleys House and Gallery, Home of the Surrealists, Muddles Green. Review by Barbara Lewis. In pandemic times Farleys House visits have slowed to a trickle, throwing the economics into jeopardy.