Archive for the 'Exhibitions' Category

Paul Gauguin at the Tate Modern, London

Paul Gauguin, Self Portrait With Hat

Paintings of Modernist Pioneer, Paul Gauguin at the Tate Modern, London, United Kingdom
I particularly enjoyed reading Andrew Lambirth’s review of the new Paul Gauguin exhibition at the Tate Modern in London. The man has left me salivating with envy as I am unlikely to be able to visit […]

Edward Hopper Exhibition in New York

“Edward Hopper and His Time” at the Whitney Museum
American artist Edward Hopper (b1882) painted the dark-side of the “American Dream.” In short - what it was like to be alone in a crowd. His paintings portrayed solitude, even melancholy, many in urban landscapes devoid of life. My favorite quote is from the French author, Michel […]

From Russia with love

Well not exactly, but in the end, the Exhibition went ahead.
The Royal Academy of Art in London had been negotiating for months with various Russian State museums and galleries - the Pushkin State Museum of Fine Art, the State Tretyakov Gallery in Moscow, the State Hermitage Museum, and the State Russian Museum, in St Petersburg, […]