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Red Pots in the Garden 2000. Private collection, courtesy Guggenheim Asher Associates

David Hockney: 60 years of work

Art & Architecture February 8, 2017 London,

In the year of the artist’s 80th birthday, Tate Britain presents a survey of almost 60 years of David Hockney’s work in the first major retrospective for nearly 30 years and already the gallery’s fastest-selling exhibition. David Hockney ...

The Taking of Christ
Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio
1602
© The National Gallery of Ireland, Dublin

Beyond Caravaggio

Art & Architecture October 11, 2016 London,

Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio, bad boy of Baroque art, defier of precedence and authority, produced strikingly original and emotionally-charged paintings in his short life. Dramatically lit and rich in colour and gesture, his work had an immediate impact on ...

You Say You Want A Revolution?

Art & Architecture September 9, 2016 London,

What is the continuing fascination with the 1960s and what was the impact of that swinging decade on subsequent decades and generations? This major new exhibition at London’s Victoria and Albert Museum explores the significance and impact of the late ...

Proms at … Bold Tendencies Multi-Storey Car Park, London, UK

Music September 6, 2016 London,

The way in to the venue is an unprepossessing entrance beside the PeckhamPlex cinema. There’s a bouncer in attendance and some heavy-duty metal barriers such as one might see at a demo. We ascend a grubby narrow concrete staircase and ...

Georgia O’Keeffe, Tate Modern, London

Art & Architecture July 10, 2016 London,

A major new retrospective of Georgia O’Keeffe at London’s Tate Modern seeks to challenge standard attitudes to and interpretation of her work as “flowers that look like vaginas”. It was the artist’s husband, amongst others, the photographer Alfred Stieglitz, who ...

New Tate Modern

Art & Architecture June 15, 2016 London,

Tate Modern, housed in a former 1950s power station on the south bank of the river Thames has, since its opening in 2000, become a visual marker on the London skyline, along with the London Eye, the Gherkin and Big ...

The Music of Silence: Steven Osborne at Milton Court

Music June 8, 2016 London,

“The music is not in the notes, but in the silence between” This quote from Mozart seems particularly apt for Steven Osborne’s recent concert at London’s Milton Court which featured music by Morton Feldman and George Crumb, two radical ...

Olivier Messiaen’s “Vingt Regards sur l’enfant Jésus”

Music April 25, 2016 London,

Olivier Messiaen’s monumental work Vingt Regards sur l’enfant Jésus (Twenty Contemplations on the Infant Jesus) surely ranks amongst the “greats” of the piano repertoire, standing shoulder-to-shoulder with Bach’s Well-Tempered Clavier and Beethoven’s 32 Piano Sonatas in terms of its scale, ...

Sir András Schiff at London’s Wigmore Hall

Music April 9, 2016 London,

Sir András Schiff is traversing the final three piano sonatas of Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven and Schubert in concerts across America and Europe. Twelve sonatas in total are spread across three concerts which celebrate the sonata form, "one ...

A detail from a reproduction of Tchaikovsky's Portrait 1893 by Kuznetsov from the collection of the Tretyakov State Gallery in Moscow.

Russia and the Arts: The Age of Tolstoy and Tchaikovsky

Art & Architecture March 16, 2016 London,

If you visit London’s National Portrait Gallery, you’re likely to bump into some eminent Russian poets, artists, musicians, writers and patrons in addition to the Gallery’s large collection of British portraits. “Russia and the Arts: The Age of ...