In the year of the artist’s 80th birthday, Tate Britain presents a survey of almost 60 years of David Hockney’s…
Frances Wilson
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.
Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio, bad boy of Baroque art, defier of precedence and authority, produced strikingly original and emotionally-charged paintings…
What is the continuing fascination with the 1960s and what was the impact of that swinging decade on subsequent decades…
The way in to the venue is an unprepossessing entrance beside the PeckhamPlex cinema. There’s a bouncer in attendance and…
A major new retrospective of Georgia O’Keeffe at London’s Tate Modern seeks to challenge standard attitudes to and interpretation of…
Tate Modern, housed in a former 1950s power station on the south bank of the river Thames has, since its…
“The music is not in the notes, but in the silence between” This quote from Mozart seems particularly apt for…
Olivier Messiaen’s monumental work Vingt Regards sur l’enfant Jésus (Twenty Contemplations on the Infant Jesus) surely ranks amongst the “greats”…
Sir András Schiff is traversing the final three piano sonatas of Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven and Schubert in concerts across America…
If you visit London’s National Portrait Gallery, you’re likely to bump into some eminent Russian poets, artists, musicians, writers and…
In the great panoramic panels of water lilies which Claude Monet painted in the final years of his life, one…
This timely major new exhibition of 150 photographs by acclaimed photographer Lee Miller portrays women’s experiences during the Second…
Generally considered to be an Anglo-American phenomenon, Pop Art is most closely associated with artists such as Andy Warhol and…
Joseph Cornell is one of the most famous yet enigmatic characters in twentieth-century American art. A leading exponent…