Seen at the Swindon Art Gallery and Museum, in their new(ish) exhibition Going to Town: Scenes of Urban Life. Swindon’s regularly changing exhibitions are always interesting. They really make the most of their collection of modern British works. Some new discovery always jumps out at me when I visit and this time I especially like… Read More Sylvia Gosse – The Printer (1915)
I happened upon this Richard Hamilton print, In Horne’s House (1981-2), in Tate Liverpool recently. It immediately made me smile, with the party attendees drawn in pastiches of various different art styles. I particularly liked the Ancient Egyptian style guy, drinking from a glass in the style of Marcel Duchamp’s Nude Descending a Staircase. Reading up on the… Read More Richard Hamilton – In Horne’s House (1981-2)
Earlier this week, my suggested exhibition to visit this week was Gwen John to Lucian Freud: Home and the World at the Holburne Museum in Bath. For once, I decided to act immediately on my own recommendation, rather than wait, and therefore trundled off to Bath (via Glastonbury, as my wife likes the many hippy/alternative… Read More A Hodgkin at the Holburne
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