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Marlene Dumas: Oscar Wilde and Bosie – Significant Works – Sue Hubbard

Marlene Dumas: Oscar Wilde and Bosie – Significant Works – Sue Hubbard

by News Desk | Dec 18, 2021 | Features

Plus ca change, plus c’est le meme chose, the homily goes. Yet, Marlene Dumas’ portraits of the writer Oscar Wilde (1854–1900) and his young lover, Lord Alfred Douglas (1870–1945), known as ‘Bosie’, illustrate that social attitudes do change that...
Banksy Pledges Mural To Save Reading Gaol From Developers – Largest Vermeer Retrospective Announced By Rijksmuseum – Monumental Stonehenge Exhibition For British Museum

Banksy Pledges Mural To Save Reading Gaol From Developers – Largest Vermeer Retrospective Announced By Rijksmuseum – Monumental Stonehenge Exhibition For British Museum

by News Desk | Dec 7, 2021 | News

The reclusive Street Artist Banksy has pledged millions of pounds to purchase Reading Joal (famous for Oscar Wilde’s incarceration) and turn it into an art centre. The artist has pledged £10m towards the asking price raised by selling the wall mural that he...
Banksy Paints Escaping Oscar Wilde Mural For LGBTQ+ History Month

Banksy Paints Escaping Oscar Wilde Mural For LGBTQ+ History Month

by News Desk | Mar 5, 2021 | News

Banksy has confirmed that he was behind an artwork that appeared on a wall at HM Reading Prison earlier in the week. The notorious Victorian gaol best known for Oscar Wilde’s incarceration has become the latest mural in his politically charged archive....
Marlene Dumas Exhibits Oscar Wilde And Lover Bosie Portraits At NPG

Marlene Dumas Exhibits Oscar Wilde And Lover Bosie Portraits At NPG

by News Desk | Apr 4, 2017 | Previews

Contemporary artist Marlene Dumas (b.1953) displays portraits of Oscar Wilde (1854–1900) and his lover Lord Alfred Douglas (1870–1945), also known as ‘Bosie,’ painted last year and exhibited in Artangel’s ambitious exhibition at Reading Gaol, Wilde’s place of...

Inside Reading Gaol Amanda McGregor Asks Who else is imprisoned unfairly?

by News Desk | Sep 14, 2016 | News

As the hand that creates, then wipes the tears from the strong, we question the nature of suffering. The architecture of space that is in the human consciousness, which allows for isolation and emotional neglect needs a more defined understanding of it’s...
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