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A long weekend in London

August 23, 2014by lafeeculturelle Leave a comment

Jeff Koons Bear and Policeman 1988 ©Jeff Koons Expensive flights, last-minute organisation… Are you spending the bank holiday in London? I am! Let’s catch up on art exhibitions then! Below […]

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Contemporary Art, Impressionism, Installation Art, Italian Renaissance, Kinetic art, Modern art, Photography, Post-impressionism, Sculpture, Technique

First Night Back In London

July 22, 2014by lafeeculturelle Leave a comment

Henri Matisse The Snail 1953 © Succession H. Matisse / DACS 2014 La Fée Culturelle is back in London! Below is the ranking of five exhibitions I have seen in […]

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Contemporary Art, Impressionism, Installation Art, Italian Renaissance, Modern art, Photography, Post-impressionism, Sculpture, Technique

Become a Colour expert at the National Gallery

July 4, 2014by lafeeculturelle Leave a comment

‘Making Colour’ at the National Gallery promises to make us « travel through the story of colour ». I did, wondering around National Gallery colour-themed rooms, with paintings and artefacts […]

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Impressionism, Italian Renaissance, Technique

La Fée Culturelle’s art adventures in Nepal: Namaste!

April 7, 2013by lafeeculturelle 2 Comments

“Namaste” is a friendly greeting and salutation in Nepal and India. My friend and travel companion N. and I went last minute for a two-week holiday in Nepal. One of […]

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Asian art, Contemporary Art, Museums, Technique

Learning to be an art critic, week 2: the Art Apprentice

March 6, 2013by lafeeculturelle Leave a comment

This week, we got straight to the point: deconstructing and writing reviews. We started discussing the structure, paragraph by paragraph, of a “real” review, in effect a critique of a […]

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Technique

Learning to be an art critic, week 1

February 26, 2013by lafeeculturelle 1 Comment

Last Monday, I went to the first session of a five-week art criticism course at the Tate Modern: The Critical I. The course curriculum sounded perfect for my non-art-expert/non-professional-critic blog, […]

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Museums, Technique

Gold medal for Bronze

December 2, 2012by lafeeculturelle Leave a comment

What a wonderful exhibition! At first reluctant to see an exhibition which shows only bronze pieces, I changed my mind from the first room. Bronze is the oldest artistic medium […]

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Technique

Art in Action, a day trip outside of London for next year!

July 24, 2012by lafeeculturelle Leave a comment

I like to write up exhibitions you can actually see but I will make an exception for the Art in Action festival which ended on Sunday. This is a four […]

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Technique

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