Nick studied Art History at the Courtauld Institute of Art and History at Cambridge University. After working for thirty years in the book trade he is now a freelance writer and artist. His interests include breadmaking, touring historic battlefields, and trying to get above D4 on the flute (maybe it's time for the piccolo). He lives in Teddington, England.
Art & ArchitectureLondon,
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September 24, 2016-January 2, 2017
Main Galleries, Burlington House
There have been quite a few exhibitions in the U.K. on individual Abstract Expressionists - notably the big Rothko show at Tate Britain a few years ago; ...
Art & ArchitectureLondon,
The inspiration for this show was the National Gallery’s acquisition of a painting by Camille Corot, “the Italian Woman”, from the estate of Lucian Freud after the artist’s death in 2011. It turns out that over 70 works ...
Art & ArchitectureLondon,
Pride of place in the first room of this exhibition goes to a vast and very odd painting, "The Disruption Portrait", by the 19th-century artist David Octavius Hill. Twenty-three years in the making, it depicts the ...
Art & ArchitectureLondon,
In 1974 Michael Craig-Martin exhibited an ordinary glass of water on a shelf, the type you normally find in bathrooms, and called it "An Oak Tree." That’s what it was, because that's what he said it ...
Art & ArchitectureLondon,
Peter Ustinov once said that if Sandro Botticelli (1445-1510) were alive today, he'd be working for "Vogue." You can see what he was driving at. Around 1485, Botticelli painted "The Birth of Venus," which famously shows the goddess ...
Art & ArchitectureLondon,
You get a good idea of the esteem in which Eugène Delacroix (1798-1863) was held by later French painters from a small Cézanne, fittingly titled "The Apotheosis of Delacroix." It shows the older artist being borne heavenward by angels, one ...
MusicLondon,
Simon McBurney has returned to the English National Opera to direct the first revival of his production of Mozart's last great opera, which McBurney originally staged at the Coliseum in 2013. When his name was announced, there was a tendency ...
Art & ArchitectureLondon,
It's an unsettling experience, standing in front of the little pen and ink study which the Spanish artist Goya made of himself in 1795. He may in fact be concentrating on his own image in a mirror, but it's easy ...
Art & ArchitectureLondon,
Ai Weiwei is a global phenomenon. As well as being one of the most recognizable artists working today, he's famous for his outspoken criticism of the Chinese government and in particular of its record on human rights. So great is ...
Art & ArchitectureLondon,
Among the highlights of Henry VIII's library was a book called "Ruralia Commonia," which is generally considered the world's first "how to" gardening manual. Written in Latin around 1304 by a Bolognese lawyer, Petrus de Crescentiis, it contains practical advice ...
