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London’s New Art Scene Creative Britain 1962-68 – Edward Lucie-Smith

London’s New Art Scene Creative Britain 1962-68 – Edward Lucie-Smith

by News Desk | Apr 30, 2020 | Reviews

Here’s a handsome new volume, well-illustrated, but more social history than art book, which tells of the emergence of London as an international art scene, during the years that followed World War II. Its subtitle is Art and Culture in the 1960s. Its weakness,...
Infamous Colony Room Relived In New Book – Edward Lucie-Smith

Infamous Colony Room Relived In New Book – Edward Lucie-Smith

by News Desk | Apr 23, 2020 | Reviews

Darren Coffield’s well-presented Tales from the Colony Room, Soho’s Lost Bohemia, memorialises an epoch in the London world of the arts that now seems very far away, even though the once-famous Colony Room closed its doors as recently as December 2008.  Don’t Be Dull...
Artemisia Gentileschi A Retrospective – Edward Lucie-Smith

Artemisia Gentileschi A Retrospective – Edward Lucie-Smith

by News Desk | Apr 16, 2020 | Reviews

The much-anticipated Artemisia Gentileschi exhibition at the National Gallery in London will open next week. Many were disappointed by its postponement due to the COVID Pandemic. For those who can’t make it to the exhibition, there is a surprisingly complete...
Piranesi Drawings – Neoclassical Visions – Edward Lucie-Smith

Piranesi Drawings – Neoclassical Visions – Edward Lucie-Smith

by News Desk | Apr 9, 2020 | Reviews

This handsome soft-cover catalogue published by Thames & Hudson for the British Museum was intended to commemorate an exhibition that hasn’t in fact taken place, due to the coronavirus. It offers illustrations of Piranesi drawings, with a few subsidiary...
Edmund de Waal Books Thousands of Books British Museum – Marina Vaizey

Edmund de Waal Books Thousands of Books British Museum – Marina Vaizey

by News Desk | Mar 26, 2020 | Reviews

Books! Thousands of books! Written by hundreds of authors from scores of countries, and countries not their own, forced by circumstance, persecution, and censorship to move and sometimes even to write in languages not their own. Books written in exile by the exiled....
Titian: A Pity To Miss – National Gallery – Edward Lucie-Smith

Titian: A Pity To Miss – National Gallery – Edward Lucie-Smith

by News Desk | Mar 19, 2020 | Reviews

The Titian show at the National Gallery in London has arrived at a particularly inauspicious moment. Major public galleries in Europe are indefinitely shutting their doors because of the coronavirus. Since writing this review, The National Gallery is now temporarily...
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