Tag Archives: PAINTINGS

Mark Wallinger Id at Hauser & Wirth London

Posted on 2016-02-26 by tikichris

Id, a solo show of new paintings and multi-media works by Turner Prize winning artist Mark Wallinger, opens today at Hauser & Wirth London, with large-scale pieces featuring prominently in both of its Savile Row spaces. Continue reading →

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Dorothea Tanning: Web of Dreams, Alison Jacques Gallery

Posted on 2014-07-14 by tikichris

American artist Dorothea Tanning, who died in 2012 at the age of 101, was a prodigious master of figurative art. Web of Dreams on show at Alison Jacques Gallery on Berners Street in Fitzrovia shares her raw talent and often playful approach in a delightfully presented exhibition presented in close collaboration with The Dorothea Tanning Foundation. Continue reading →

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The First Georgians Exhibition at the Queen’s Gallery, Buckingham Palace (CheapOair)

Posted on 2014-05-13 by tikichris

To mark the 300th anniversary of the beginning of the Georgian era, a new exhibition – The First Georgians: Art and Monarchy 1714-1760 – explores royal patronage and taste during in the reigns of George I and George II as … Continue reading →

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Two Exhibitions – Old and New – at The Queen’s Gallery, Buckingham Palace (OneTravel)

Posted on 2013-11-15 by tikichris

Two seemingly tenuously tied exhibitions have just opened at The Queen’s Gallery in Buckingham Palace – Castiglione: Lost Genius and Gifted: From the Royal Academy to The Queen – offering visitors a chance to see some of the Royal Collections … Continue reading →

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Two Exhibitions, One Gallery: #LostGenius and #Gifted at The Queen’s Gallery, Buckingham Palace

Posted on 2013-11-02 by tikichris

Two seemingly tenuously tied exhibitions have just opened at The Queen’s Gallery in Buckingham Palace – Castiglione: Lost Genius and Gifted: From the Royal Academy to The Queen – offering visitors a chance to see some of the Royal Collections oldest and most recently received works. Continue reading →

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Explore the Art of Tudor and Stuart Fashion at Buckingham Palace (OneTravel)

Posted on 2013-07-07 by tikichris

In Fine Style: The Art of Tudor and Stuart Fashion, an exhibition currently running at The Queen’s Gallery inside Buckingham Palace shines an intriguing light on the fashionable follies and sartorial considerations of 16th and 17th century nobility. For visitors visiting London and keen to learn about Britain’s royal heritage and how one’s status was expressed and identified through what they wore, this excellent exhibition is well worth keeping in mind. Continue reading →

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In Fine Style: The Art of Tudor and Stuart Fashion at The Queen’s Gallery, Buckingham Palace

Posted on 2013-06-26 by tikichris

In Fine Style: The Art of Tudor and Stuart Fashion, an exhibition currently running at The Queen’s Gallery, shines an intriguing light on the fashionable follies and sartorial considerations of 16th and 17th century nobility. Continue reading →

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New Dallas Museum of Art Exhibition Honors JFK (OneTravel)

Posted on 2013-06-02 by tikichris

Commemorating the 50th anniversary of the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, the Dallas Museum of Art brings together the works of art installed in the president’s suite at the Hotel Texas during his fateful trip in 1963. The original installation, orchestrated by a small group of Fort Worth art collectors, was created especially for the president and first lady to celebrate their overnight visit to the city and included paintings by Vincent van Gogh, Thomas Eakins, Lyonel Feininger, Franz Kline, and Marsden Hartley as well as sculptures by Pablo Picasso and Henry Moore and more. Continue reading →

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For a Crash Course in Wow, Visit Rome’s Galleria Borghese (OneTravel)

Posted on 2013-02-10 by tikichris

The gallery is home to one of the largest – and arguably most valuable – private collections of art in the world. Consisting of paintings, sculpture and antiquities, the Borghese collection began with acquisitions by Cardinal Scipione Borghese, an avid art aficionado and a bit of a dandy, while his uncle Pope Paul V was head of the Vatican (1605 to 1621). It includes important works (and lots of them) by Caravaggio, Bernini, Botticelli, Titian and plenty more. Continue reading →

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Jenny Holzer @ Sprueth Magers (Whitehot Magazine of Contemporary Art)

Posted on 2012-08-11 by tikichris

With Sophisticated Devices, a solo show at Sprueth Magers’ London gallery, American artist Jenny Holzer takes a zeitgeist-y journey to the center of personal fear and paranoia with a survey of her practice which … Read my complete post at Whitehot … Continue reading →

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Lucian Freud at the National Portrait Gallery (CheapOair)

Posted on 2012-04-27 by tikichris

… Freud’s portraits make one feel like a lucky voyeur  –  not just peeking into his subjects’ private affairs but deep within their souls. Lucian Freud at the National Portrait Gallery CheapOair, 27 April 2012

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Exhibition Review: A’ Urban Abstract by Remi/Rough and Steve More (Londonist)

Posted on 2011-02-01 by tikichris

Exhibition Review: A’ Urban Abstract by Remi/Rough and Steve More Londonist, February 1, 2011 at 15:15 pm An uncompromising mix of graffiti grit and studio contemplation, the exhibition’s focus on self-expression and gorgeous colour draws the viewer in, allowing you … Continue reading →

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Exhibition Review: The Unseen Dali: Drawings, Paintings, Sculptures at Modern Masters Gallery (Londonist)

Posted on 2010-12-06 by tikichris

Exhibition Review: The Unseen Dali: Drawings, Paintings, Sculptures at Modern Masters Gallery Londonist, December 6, 2010 at 16:31 pm An opportunity for close scrutiny of how an art world legend went about creating, The Unseen Dali: Drawings, Paintings, Sculptures runs until … Continue reading →

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