Frances Wilson is a London-based pianist, writer, concert reviewer and blogger on music and pianism as The Cross-Eyed Pianist. A keen concert-goer, she writes regular reviews for her blog and also for international concert and opera listings site Bachtrack.com. She is a guest blogger for InterludeHK and HelloStage, and has contributed articles to a number of other classical music websites around the world.
Art & ArchitectureLondon,
In the great panoramic panels of water lilies which Claude Monet painted in the final years of his life, one has the sense of an artist who was so familiar with his subject matter that the creation of these arresting ...
Art & ArchitectureLondon,
This timely major new exhibition of 150 photographs by acclaimed photographer Lee Miller portrays women’s experiences during the Second World War and reflects Miller’s unique insight as a woman and a photographer whose sharply observed and sensitively nuanced ...
Art & ArchitectureLondon,
Generally considered to be an Anglo-American phenomenon, Pop Art is most closely associated with artists such as Andy Warhol and Roy Lichtenstein, whose work offered a colourful and unconflicted commentary on modern commercial culture in screen prints of Campbell’s soup ...
Art & ArchitectureLondon,
Joseph Cornell is one of the most famous yet enigmatic characters in twentieth-century American art. A leading exponent of collage and assemblage, and a connoisseur of an astonishing range of subjects, including astronomical charts and geographical ...
Art & ArchitectureLondon,
The British sculptor Barbara Hepworth (1903-75) enjoys a pre-eminent position in twentieth-century British sculpture, second only to Henry Moore, and this new exhibition at London’s Tate Britain celebrates her work in the first major retrospective for ...
Art & ArchitectureLondon,
It’s hard to be dispassionate about the Royal Academy of Arts Summer Exhibition. Now in its 247th year, the exhibition has been held annually, without interruption, since 1769, the year after King George III founded the Royal Academy Schools in ...
MusicLondon,
One hundred years to the day since the death of Russian composer Alexander Scriabin, American pianist Garrick Ohlsson concluded his two-concert “Skryabin Focus” at London’s Wigmore Hall with a recital of works which spanned the final two decades of Scriabin’s ...
Art & ArchitectureLondon,
A thought-provoking new exhibition at London’s Victoria and Albert Museum poses the question “What Is Luxury?” and challenges our traditional notions and definitions of luxury. If you are expecting Louis Vuitton handbags, de Beers diamonds or Patek Philippe watches, you ...
Art & ArchitectureLondon,
In Britain Sir Joshua Reynolds is regarded as something of a national treasure. The first president of the Royal Academy of Arts, his statue greets you on arriving at the art school and gallery he founded. In his day, he ...
Art & ArchitectureLondon,
Renowned for his portraits of the great and the good of late-Victorian society and dismissed by critics as a painter of “crowd-pleasers” after his death, a more personal side of the artist John Singer Sargent is revealed in a major ...
