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Picasso and Modern British Art (Tate)
The Tate in London certainly seems to be playing some big name cards in 2012, with the first major Damien Hirst UK exhibition on at the Tate Modern, and a Picasso-centric exhibition on at the Tate Britain. The latter has … Continue reading
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Tagged Cubism, David Hockney, Francis Bacon, Graham Sutherland, Picasso, tate, Wyndham Lewis
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Gerhard Richter: Panorama (Tate Modern)
I hadn’t intended to go to the Gerhard Richter retrospective at the Tate: I’d not heard of him at all before I turned up at the Tate Modern for an entirely different exhibition that was actually being held at the … Continue reading
The Vorticists – Tate Britain
The Vorticists were the subject of an exhibition just concluded at Tate Britain. I’d not heard of this short-lived modernist movement in British art that lasted all of two years around the start of the Fist World War until I … Continue reading
Watercolours (Tate Britain)
Currently running at Tate Britain is an exhibition on this history of the watercolour in art, and since my dad has been very much into painting with watercolours in recent years I felt an interest in going to see what … Continue reading
Tate Modern – Photographic Typologies
If it hadn’t been for the recommendation of a friend via Twitter, I would have been completely unaware of this exhibition of photographs on the fifth floor of the Tate Modern – the museum doesn’t seem too interested in promoting … Continue reading
Tate Modern – Gabriel Orozco
Thanks to a wonderful Christmas gift of a Tate membership, I’m able to visit exhibitions that would not normally be ‘my sort of thing’ that I would choose to spend money on, and it’s a wonderful liberation to be able … Continue reading
