This is the first major retrospective of Malevich’s art in thirty years, and the first one ever in the UK. It brings together over 100 works from collections in his native Russia and all across Europe and the US and gives a really comprehensive sense of his artistic achievement and development, allowing a good assessment […]
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Malevich: Revolutionary of Russian art @ Tate Modern
Posted by Simon on August 8, 2014
https://astrofella.wordpress.com/2014/08/08/malevich-revolutionary-of-russian-art-tate-modern/
To Hell and Back: Europe 1914-1949 by Ian Kershaw (2015)
This is volume seven in the eight-volume Penguin History of Europe and it is very good. It has to cover a lot of ground and Kershaw does it clearly and authoritatively. He does this more by focusing on broad themes and issues, than getting snarled up in details. It is a high-level overview. Contents The […]
Posted by Simon on May 26, 2020
https://astrofella.wordpress.com/2020/05/26/to-hell-and-back-ian-kershaw/
Aubrey Beardsley @ Tate Britain
Aubrey Beardsley must be the most distinctive British artist. If you see any of his mature works, they are immediately recognisable and almost always deeply satisfying, their elegance of line and composition emphasised by the stylish use of huge areas of unmediated black or white, and the sophistication of his sensually charged portrayal of the […]
Posted by Simon on March 16, 2020
https://astrofella.wordpress.com/2020/03/16/aubrey-beardsley-tate-britain/
Content warnings at Tate
Warning: This blog post contains strong and sometimes challenging imagery, including depictions of slavery, violence and suffering. Baroque Britain When I visited the Baroque Britain exhibition at Tate Britain I was surprised that there was a Content Warning at the entrance to the second room. This warned us that some of the images were disturbing […]
Posted by Simon on March 3, 2020
https://astrofella.wordpress.com/2020/03/03/content-warnings-at-tate/
British Baroque: Power and Illusion @ Tate Britain
British Baroque: Power and Illusion covers art and architecture (and gardens and sculpture and oddities and gimmicks) from the Restoration of Charles II in 1660 to the death of Queen Anne in 1714. The big word in the title is Baroque but it’s a problematic term and by the end of the exhibition I was […]
Posted by Simon on March 1, 2020
https://astrofella.wordpress.com/2020/03/01/british-baroque-power-and-illusion-tate-britain/
Dora Maar @ Tate Modern
This is the most comprehensive retrospective of photographer and painter Dora Maar ever held. Brief synopsis Maar was a successful fashion and commercial photographer in the early 1930s a social documentary photographer in the mid-1930s, as well as being a left-wing political activist, signing manifestos, going on marches she developed into a dazzling surrealist photographer in […]
Posted by Simon on December 23, 2019
https://astrofella.wordpress.com/2019/12/23/dora-maar-tate-modern/
John Opie @ Tate Britain
Tate Britain is labyrinthine enough to have half a dozen side rooms and spaces where it mounts small (and sometimes not so small) ‘spotlight’ exhibitions, focusing on a particular topic or artist. In a modest room off the main atrium, little more than a glorified corridor, Tate Britain is hosting a small but beautifully formed […]
Posted by Simon on November 25, 2019
https://astrofella.wordpress.com/2019/11/25/john-opie-tate-britain/
Dóra Maurer @ Tate Modern
This is a lovely FREE exhibition on the third floor of Tate Modern. It is the first UK survey to celebrate Dóra Maurer’s five-decade career, bringing together 35 works, ranging from: her conceptual photographic series the experimental films her colourful graphic works and the striking large geometric paintings Potted biography Dóra Maurer was born in 1937 in […]
Posted by Simon on November 23, 2019
https://astrofella.wordpress.com/2019/11/23/dora-maurer-tate-modern/
The Bauhaus and Britain @ Tate Britain
This one-room FREE display at Tate Britain celebrated the centenary of the opening of the Bauhaus School of Art and Design in Germany in 1919 with a display showing the interaction between Bauhaus ideas and exponents, and their followers and collaborators in Britain. The Bauhaus aimed to promote modern art for a modern world and […]
Posted by Simon on November 22, 2019
https://astrofella.wordpress.com/2019/11/22/the-bauhaus-and-britain-tate-britain/
Edith Tudor-Hart and Wolfgang Suschitzky @ Tate Britain
This is a one-room, FREE display of the wonderfully evocative 1920s and 1930s black-and-white photos of the Jewish émigrés, Edith Tudor-Hart and Wolfgang Suschitzky. In fact, despite the name difference, they were sister and brother, two Austrian Jews born and raised in Vienna (Edith born 1908, Wolfgang born in 1912), who fled the Nazis, settled in England, […]
Posted by Simon on November 21, 2019
https://astrofella.wordpress.com/2019/11/21/edith-tudor-hart-wolfgang-suschitzky-tate-britain/
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