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Lubaina Himid – Tate Modern until 2 October 2022!

Lubaina Himid Le Rodeur: The Exchange 2016 © Lubaina Himid Courtesy of the artist and Hollybush Gardens, London (detail) Catch this fantastic exhibition at the Tate: which unfolds in a sequence of scenes designed to place visitors centre-stage and backstage.  Lubaina Himid remains dazzling, fun, expressive – a joyful voice of the British Black arts movement and cultural activist! Exhibition […]

Raphael at the National Gallery until 31 July 2022!

Tapestry directly based on Raphael’s ‘Vision of Ezekiel‘, 1518 (detail) “.. painter, draughtsman, architect, archaeologist, and poet, Raphael captured in his art the human and the divine, love and friendship, learning and power.“ This exhibition spans Raphael’s career up to his death at the age of 37, including his paintings and drawings, as well as […]

The Young Cartoonist of the Year….. closing date 5 January 2022

 © Daniel Meikle, aged 11 – winning entry in the under 18 category 2021 – detail ONE CARTOON PER ENTRANT COLOUR OR B/W HAND OR DIGITALLY DRAWN MAX A4 SIZE ♦♦♦ Please send your entries to: The Cartoon Museum 63 Wells Street London W1T 3PT or email:  hello@cartoonmuseum.org © KidsArt Limited, 2021 

Grayson Perry at the Serpentine until 10 September 2017 – ‘The Most Popular Art Exhibition Ever!’

Perry’s pots – Brexiteers and Remainers Grayson Perry’s new exhibition at the Serpentine Gallery provocatively – as ever the master of iconoclasm – titled The Most Popular Art Exhibition Ever! centres round 2 large pots which record the Nation’s feelings about Brexit: one pot representing the Brexiteers and the other the Remainers. The pots are sized […]

Alberto Giacometti – UK’s first major retrospective at Tate Modern until 10 September 2017

Alberto Giacometti with his plaster sculptures at the Venice Biennale, 1956. Photograph: Alinari/Roger-Viollet Alberto Giacometti was born in the Swiss Alps in 1901, eldest son of a well-known Impressionist painter.  He is famous for his tall, thin, bleak figures – humans honed almost to knife sharpness. He began his artistic career as a Surrealist but […]

Turner Prize – Demystified

Hurvin Anderson, Is it OK to be black?  2016.  (Detail) The Turner Prize was set up in 1984 to encourage wider appreciation of contemporary art and has become one of the best known visual art prizes in the world.  Each year 4 artists are short-listed. They must be “British” which means either working mainly in […]