Thanks again to Katie Hessel’s Great Women Artists podcast for introducing me to Howardena Pindell. The interview gives a fascinating insight into her life and work. Working in different media throughout her long career, Pindell has covered collage, painting, video and photography. Her seminal video piece Free White and 21 , unfortunately still pertinent today, […]
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Brancusi at MoMA New York
Since everything has been online for so long I began looking through previous exhibition visits and came across these images from my last visit to New York – so long ago! I find myself comforted by the purity of Constantin Brancusi, seen at MoMA in a room devoted to his work. There is a short […]
Unexpected public sculpture in North London
It’s a joy to come across creativity in unexpected places. This was the case on a recent walk when we came across this collection by Kitpromo on Hornsey Road at the junction with Grenville Road N19. The photo of me above gives you some idea of scale. There’s a collection of different characters around the […]
Louis-Léopold Boilly’s images of life in Paris
Given the lack of physical exhibitions at the moment I’ve been looking back through my archives and found this genre artist whose work I saw a while ago at the National Gallery . Louis-Léopold Boilly (1761 – 1845) lived through turbulent times and was one of the first artists to take life on the streets […]
Tracey Emin/ Edvard Munch at The Royal Academy
Titled The Loneliness of the Soul, this exhibition at the Royal Academy is a collection of works by Edvard Munch selected by Tracey Emin alongside some of hers. Munch has apparently been an obsession since adolescence with connections evident from the very beginning of this show. These watercolours by Munch moved me more than the […]
Bruce Nauman at Tate Modern
Another Tate exhibition I visited before our current lock-down was Bruce Nauman at Tate Modern. I’ve been determined to see as much as possible whenever permitted and the galleries I’m a member of tend to have taken priority. As usual I can only mention a fraction of pieces on show so here goes. Whilst focussing […]