Sir Edwin Landseer’s The Monarch of the Glen is one of the most famous and iconic images of Scotland and the Highlands (and whisky). For the first time since it’s painting in 1851, this resplendent painting is on display in the National Gallery before it returns to Scotland in February 2019. Commissioned for the Houses…
Category: Exhibitions
Good Grief, Charlie Brown!
The Embankment Gallery of Somerset House is playing host to a landmark exhibition on Peanuts exploring not just the comic strip and but the ways it has come to infiltrate popular culture. It is a mark of the unquestionable impact of, and love for, Snoopy (and his fellow Peanuts), that no other comic strip character…
Lorenzo Lotto Portraits
The third concurrent exhibition at the National Gallery this autumn is Lorenzo Lotto Portraits. It brings together many of the best portraits spanning the career of this Renaissance master. A particular highlight is the warts and all portrait of Bishop Bernardo de’ Rossi (1505) on loan from Naples, and reunited with its allegorical cover from…
Klimt / Schiele
Vienna had long been a centre of liberal intellectual and cultural creativity. But as the fusty old fashioned hierarchical Austro-Hungarian Empire crumbled in 1918, two of the leading artists of this Viennese movement died – Gustav Kimt, the grand-master of this artistic movement, and the young Egon Schiele. Both men were constant sketchers and drawers,…
The Secret to a Good Life at the RA
Currently on display in the McAulay Gallery in Burlington Gardens, The Secret to a Good Life is something of a family affair of an exhibition. The project by Bob and Roberta Smith RA, tells the story of his artist mother Deirdre Borlase and her relationship with the RA (and to an extent her artist husband)…
Courtauld Impressionists – From Manet to Cezanne
The Courtauld is one of the smaller and lesser known galleries in London; it’s also one of the few with an entrance fee. But within the art world and to those who know it, The Courtauld Institute is one of the most impressive art centres in the World. It’s a leading art institution that has…