virgin mary

Aug 01

Early Netherlandish drawings @ the British Museum

Simon

Go to the back of the British Museum, climb the stairs or take the lift to the top floor (level 4) to discover the heavy glass doors into galleries 90a and 90b. These are the print rooms, which host rotating exhibitions drawing on the British Museum’s vast collection of some 2 million print...

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Jul 25

Tracey Emin: A Second Life @ Tate Modern

Simon

Warning: like the exhibition, this review includes swearwords and explicit imagery. This feels like a really important exhibition by a major artist. Installation view of Tracey Emin: A Second Life @ Tate Modern showing Room 4, a table of bronze sculptures in the middle, generally nudes, leading up...

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