Following the Prime Minister's announcement that museums and galleries may reopen from Saturday 4 July providing they adhere to COVID Secure guidelines, the following museums and galleries have released details. Here is a useful guide to the planned reopenings....
The Blessed Waldy - yes, it was he - appeared not once but twice in the Sunday Times last weekend. One-piece, in the Culture section, about a virtual exhibition of kimonos at the V&A Museum, did not detain me long. What it demonstrated was the near-desperate...
This year the Turner Prize will be replaced by a bursaries scheme In response to the COVID19 pandemic. Tate Britain has announced that it will be awarding one-off bursaries of £10,000 to 10 artists in place of this year's Turner Prize. The jury will select the 'Turner...
Cathie Pilkington RA has been elected as the new Keeper of the Royal Academy. She was elected as a Royal Academician in 2014 and served as Professor of Sculpture from 2015-19. Pilkington will bring a wealth of experience to the role of Keeper - Rebecca Salter PRA The...
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....
The Tate has just released a press statement informing that it will be closing up shop until May due to COVID19 virus. The British Museum, National Gallery, Royal Academy, V&A, Serpentine Galleries, Whitechapel, Barbican and Hayward Galleries have made similar...
All galleries public and private are now closed or online only. The National Gallery has closed due to the Coronavirus. They had already cancelled their highly anticipated Artemisia Gentileschi exhibition, scheduled to open on 4th April. All Tate Galleries, The...
THEM is a new exhibition examining the work of an important group of artists who came to prominence in the early 1970s, including Duggie Fields, Andrew Logan and Derek Jarman. Curated by James Birch, the show’s title derives from an article of the same name written by...
On Monday, January 13 the Times (London) published a chirpy article by Ben Luke promising wonders to come in London's official galleries during the coming year. I have to say that the prospects he offered didn't look so wonderful to me - that is to say where...