London art exhibitions, installations and events - photos and chat

[CH1]

Somewhat boring I know - but went to the preview of the British Museum Michaelangelo exhibition 2 May - 28 Jul 2024.

Introduction to 'Michelangelo: the last decades'

Discover the extraordinary dynamism of Michelangelo's work in the final 30 years of his life with exhibition curator, Sarah Vowles.

www.britishmuseum.org

Mainly "cartoons" and drawings - with some intriguing pairing of Michaelangelo drawing and a finished product by another artist.
This pairing is from the BM blog above
Michaelangelo


Marcello Venusti


There were walls devoted to explaining the Last Judgement, and also several Pieta and Annunciation pictures - these being composed by Michaelangelo and painted by others.
The largest such example was a drawing know as the Epithania (Epithany) featuring Jesus and John the Baptist playing hide and seek between their mother's legs.
This was given to Ascanio Condivi, starting on his career as an artist. Condivi's massive picture is next to Michaelangelo's cartoon in the show

 

[Orang Utan]

CH1 Leonardo Da Vinci is probably as far from boring as you can get!

 

[editor]

This exhibition was some ride

2024 World Press Photo exhibition at Borough Yards, London: powerful, depressing, harrowing, essential -

The World Press Photo Exhibition 2024 has stopped off at Borough Yards as part of its world-wide tour, and it makes for an almost overwhelming emotional experience. The annual exhibition showcases the best and most important photojournalism and documentary photography of the last year, with the...

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[editor]

This was really good:

Moonwalkers – an immersive ride into the wonders of the Apollo space missions at the London Lightroom -

I've been fascinated by NASA and the Apollo space missions all my life, so I didn't want to miss The Moonwalkers: A Journey With Tom Hanks, an immersive, one hour cinema experience at the London Lightroom, near King's Cross. Lightroom opened in February 2023 and is currently hosting two shows...

www.urban75.org

 

[surreybrowncap]

Yesterday I went along to the Estorick Collection of Modern Italian Art...
Situated in Islington...
A collection of photographs by Sergio Strizzi well worth seeing..
Ends 8th September 2024.
Tickets normally £7.50 but I paid half price with National Art Pass - well worth investing in..

Exhibitions - Estorick Collection

www.estorickcollection.com

 

[redsquirrel]

Not London but still down south - has anyone been to see the Leonora Carrington exhibition at Petworth? hitmouse ?

Leonora Carrington: Rebel Visionary review – wild dreams of a titan of surrealism finally get their due

This is an ecstatic reminder of all that is liberating in surrealist art by an extraordinary artist who was still unlocking her unconscious well into her 90s

www.theguardian.com

I love her work and this sounds great, but getting to it from Leeds by public transport is not going to be easy

 

[blossie33]

Yesterday I went along to the Estorick Collection of Modern Italian Art...
Situated in Islington...
A collection of photographs by Sergio Strizzi well worth seeing..
Ends 8th September 2024.
Tickets normally £7.50 but I paid half price with National Art Pass - well worth investing in..

Exhibitions - Estorick Collection

www.estorickcollection.com

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Yes, interesting exhibition isn't it - great photographs!
I live fairly near so I have an individual membership which is only £20 for the year. I usually go to each exhibition at least twice so well worth it.
They have good exhibitions, usually artists and photographers I've not heard of before so I learn new stuff and they have the permanent exhibition too.

 

[surreybrowncap]

Yes, interesting exhibition isn't it - great photographs!
I live fairly near so I have an individual membership which is only £20 for the year. I usually go to each exhibition at least twice so well worth it.
They have good exhibitions, usually artists and photographers I've not heard of before so I learn new stuff and they have the permanent exhibition too.

Indeed..
I only heard about this place recently - lovely setting..
Enjoyed a coffee in the courtyard cafe...
Will look out for future events...

 

[metalguru]

The Penny Slinger exhibition - Exorcism: Inside Out - at the Richard Saltoun Gallery near Green Park is well worth seeing as an experience of being immersed in someone else's world.

She's a surrealistic photo-collagist who has a very personal vision and whose work focuses on female/goddess sexuality and psychological symbols, and this powerful work goes back to the 1970s.

 

[editor]

This is on until 1st Sept. I enjoyed it!

In photos: Tavares Strachan: There Is Light Somewhere at the Hayward Gallery, Southbank, London

Running until the 1st September 2024, Tavares Strachan: There Is Light Somewhere offers immersive installations, a floating ship and paintings and sculptures of musical giants such as Nina Simone …

www.brixtonbuzz.com

 

[blossie33]

I went a couple of weeks ago, really enjoyed it too.

 

[RoyReed]

Roger Mayne: Youth - documentary photography from the 1950s-1970s at the Courtauld Gallery. Last few days - it closes on Sunday 1 September. Catch it if you can, it's well worth seeing.


Bomb Site


Southam Street - Girl Dancing


Teddy Boy and Girl


Teddy Girls


Teenage Couple - cover photo for Absolute Beginners

 

[ash]

Roger Mayne: Youth - documentary photography from the 1950s-1970s at the Courtauld Gallery. Last few days - it closes on Sunday 1 September. Catch it if you can, it's well worth seeing.

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Teenage Couple - cover photo for Absolute Beginners

I also enjoyed it. I agree with the photographer that his preference for the cover of absolute beginners was better than the one they used.

 

[RoyReed]

I also enjoyed it. I agree with the photographer that his preference for the cover of absolute beginners was better than the one they used.

Yes, he was right. Photographers always know best!

 

[editor]

Roger Mayne: Youth - documentary photography from the 1950s-1970s at the Courtauld Gallery. Last few days - it closes on Sunday 1 September. Catch it if you can, it's well worth seeing.

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Teenage Couple - cover photo for Absolute Beginners

It's absolutely fantastic, as is the Courtauld.

 

[oryx]

Roger Mayne: Youth - documentary photography from the 1950s-1970s at the Courtauld Gallery. Last few days - it closes on Sunday 1 September. Catch it if you can, it's well worth seeing.

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I also loved this exhibition.

I used to work on one of the estates which replaced one of the streets he photographed. Fascinating to see what the area was like in the 1950s.

I was convinced that the Absolute Beginners photo was taken on Queenstown Road in Battersea (Mayne did work in nearby Battersea Park) but on googling the fuck out of it it appears to be West London.

I was less keen on the photos of his family and friends and would like to have seen more of the 1950s street photography.

 

[ash]

I also loved this exhibition.

I used to work on one of the estates which replaced one of the streets he photographed. Fascinating to see what the area was like in the 1950s.

I was convinced that the Absolute Beginners photo was taken on Queenstown Road in Battersea (Mayne did work in nearby Battersea Park) but on googling the fuck out of it it appears to be West London.

I was less keen on the photos of his family and friends and would like to have seen more of the 1950s street photography.

I agree about Queenstown Rd I went with a friend who was bought up just off that road and still lives there almost 60 years on and he was convinced too.
Kiev’s there

 

[oryx]

I agree about Queenstown Rd I went with a friend who was bought up just off that road and still lives there almost 60 years on and he was convinced too.
Kiev’s there

Interesting he thought that too! It really does look so like Queenstown Road with the gasometer at the end.

I loved the photo of the kids playing fearlessly on a bombsite in Bermondsey. Mayne captures the kids so well - their insouciance and joy in the face of postwar decay and poverty. They are so well captured at the age of five, or eight, or fifteen or whatever, that it feels weird to think that they will all be elderly people (or dead) now.

 

[editor]

The Taylor Swift Trail at the V&A is a genius piece of marketing that gets new visitors (young and old) to see what's on offer at the museum, and hopefully spark new interests.

It's also a thoroughly engaging hour's worth of running around a museum.

 

[RoyReed]

I loved the photo of the kids playing fearlessly on a bombsite in Bermondsey. Mayne captures the kids so well - their insouciance and joy in the face of postwar decay and poverty. They are so well captured at the age of five, or eight, or fifteen or whatever, that it feels weird to think that they will all be elderly people (or dead) now.

It brought back memories for me. I'm old enough to remember playing on the bombsites on Upper Tulse Hill back in the '50s. I was only about 5 or 6, but we were allowed out by ourselves to play there all day (apart from coming home for dinner or tea).

 

[editor]

Really enjoyed this one:

In photos: Jason and the Adventure of 254 at the Wellcome Collection, London – runs until Jan 2025 -

In a major solo exhibition entitled, ‘Jason and the Adventure of 254’, artist Jason Wilsher-Mills presents a joyful exploration of the body, drawing on his experience of becoming disabled as a child. Reimagining the gallery space as a hospital ward, the room is filled with large colourful...

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[editor]

More ART!

See the stunning work at this year’s Portrait Award 2024 at the National Portrait Gallery -

Here's just a few examples of the remarkable work on display at this year's Portrait Award at the National Portrait Gallery Thankfully now stripped of its BP Sponsorship (its full title is now the Herbert Smith Freehill Portrait Award), the exhibition runs until the 27th October 2024. Best of...

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Overlooked 2.0 by Marina Willer at Borough Yards, London, September 2024 -

This small, free exhibition at Borough Yards showcased a selection of Marina Willer’s acclaimed drain cover prints. The work takes its inspiration from the 19th century practice of taking rubbings of religious icons, creating a detailed negative image of the original object. These are then...

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[surreybrowncap]

Looking forward to this..
Have booked tickets for Sunday morning..

Van Gogh: Poets and Lovers | Exhibitions | National Gallery, London

www.nationalgallery.org.uk

 

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My next UK one will be Michael Craig Martin at the Royal Academy
Michael Craig-Martin | Royal Academy of Arts ( and then the surrealists in Paris in November ).

 

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Bloody brilliant, loved it. Taking the piss or a piss take?

 

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Also, we went at peak time on a Saturday. We could very comfortably stand or sit and look at pictures very comfortably. It was a real joy to visit. The pictures really popped. Very vivid.
COVID stuff

 

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[bluescreen]

I enjoyed this at the Whitechapel more than I thought I was going to.

Peter Kennard: Archive of Dissent - Whitechapel Gallery

Archive of Dissent brings together work from Peter Kennard's prolific career, offering a repository of social and political history.

www.whitechapelgallery.org

There was a lot there I recognised, surprisingly. (I'd seen it in the past in places like The Graun without clocking his name.) The Reading Room display is especially nostalgic for those of us of a certain age.

It's free, btw.

 

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Btw. I am not keen on modern art
This is an oak tree

 

[bluescreen]

Was Craig Martin raised a Catholic? That sounds just like transubstantiation.