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Category Archives: Arts Review

Arts Review: Victoria Crowe, 50 Years of Painting.

June 7, 2019

With the Scottish artist Victoria Crowe, you can tour a lifetime of her paintings and emerge afterwards struggling to account …

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Who is LURK?

March 4, 2019

On Christmas Island in the Indian Ocean there dwells a particular species of red crab that once a year emerges …

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Life and Death and Elisabeth Frink.

January 14, 2019

Elisabeth Frink was a schoolgirl during the Second World War when she was evacuated out of London to the Devon …

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YouTube Review: u m a m i.

January 3, 2019

u m a m i is the YouTube channel of the artist, animator and musician Justin Tomchuk, who is based …

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Arts Review: V&A Dundee.

September 18, 2018

It is obvious from the get-go that the new Victoria and Albert Museum is here to rescue Dundee. It could …

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Arts Review: the Knife Angel.

September 8, 2018

The countryside around the British Ironwork Centre is big and fair. There are immense blowsy trees that stand watching almost …

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Arts Review: Rip It Up.

June 26, 2018

“Your music belongs in a museum” is not, I think, a compliment. Nonetheless, most of the exhibits in Rip It …

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Arts Review: David Forster’s Edgelands.

April 18, 2018

“Is that…? No, it can’t be… Oh no, it definitely is!” It’s tippex! I should state immediately that I have …

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A Closer Look at Mear One’s Mural.

March 27, 2018

“I sincerely regret that I did not look more closely at the image I was commenting on.” The Labour leader …

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The Landscapes of Paul Nash.

July 21, 2017

An exhibition of Paul Nash’s paintings is wandering around the country. They were in London last year; now they are …

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Arts Review: Beyond Caravaggio.

July 10, 2017

Before us is Tychy’s renowned oil painting, “Visitors to the Scottish National Gallery looking at Caravaggio’s ‘The Taking of Christ’.” …

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Arts Review: Surreal Encounters.

July 23, 2016

I visited Surreal Encounters, the summertime show at the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, around a month ago. Afterwards …

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Arts Review: David Forster’s “Passages.”

March 15, 2016

It is as if nature is officially announcing that winter is over. There is the gaiety of a blue sky …

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Arts Review: The Amazing World of MC Escher.

July 31, 2015

My lack of patience with M.C. Escher is a thread which I can trace all the way back to a …

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Museum Review: Ming, the Golden Empire.

July 2, 2014

Today I am a superman, touring an entire civilisation in two hours and finishing it all off with a review. …

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