Another kind of life, another essential viewing
20 photographers on the margins of society I very much enjoyed Another Kind of Life at Barbican, a show of 20 photographers from the 50s to today representing “disenfranchised communities”. Even […]
Category Archives: Contemporary Art
Tate Modern Special
To celebrate the new Tate Modern opening – have you been yet? – la Fée Culturelle went through her archives of blog posts on exhibitions at Tate Modern since 2012. […]
The sculpture magician Rachel Whiteread
Rachel Whiteread’s world in a single room at Tate Britain I was immediately attracted by the nod to Minimalism and architecture, and the raw use of basic materials by British […]
Viva Venice 🎭
One week in May 2017: 40 country pavilions; six collateral events and other pavilions; seven temporary exhibitions, 120km walked, and 10 ice creams (various flavours). A bank holiday weekend in […]
Walker Evans, la beauté de l’américanité banale
Evans, le photographe du vernaculaire américain Présenté actuellement au Centre Pompidou, Walker Evans (1903-75) est le photographe du vernaculaire. Il est difficile de s’accorder sur une seule définition du vernaculaire. […]
Hockney’s Hotel California in New York
Decades of Hockney’s paintings, drawings, prints, photography and video at the Centre Pompidou Perhaps not surprisingly, I am fonder of David Hockney’s paintings in California, to which he was drawn […]
Robert Rauschenberg six-decade experiments
First posthumous retrospective covering six decades of Rauschenberg The Museum of Modern Art, New York, is holding the first posthumous retrospective of Robert Rauschenberg (October 22, 1925, Port Arthur, […]
Elton John’s Radical Eye
“The illiterate of the future will be the person ignorant of the use of the camera as well as the pen”, Laszlo Moholy-Nagy. For a few days in London, we […]
The Greatest Hits of AbEx
Abstract Expressionism was a phenomenon “Wow… wow…” said my art husband ‘J’, as we moved from room to room, “the Royal Academy exhibition is the “greatest hits” of Abstract Expressionism”. […]
The Hockney’s RA portraits: a little splash
Hockney A Bigger Splash 1967, on display at Tate Britain (not in the RA exhibition) When I think of David Hockney (b. 1937), I think of his paintings of swimming […]
