GALLERY photographic & art displays
The Art of Conducting 2011
Saturday, 14 July 2012
The greatest music festival of them is once more upon us. Throughout our extensive coverage of last year's BBC Proms, we featured the remarkable work of photographer Chris Christodoulou. We have... Read more... |
Gallery: Hop Farm Festival
Wednesday, 04 July 2012
Brand-free, eschewing sponsorship, and letting kids in for free, the Hop Farm Festival in Paddock Wood, Kent, has risen steadily in stature to become one of the major fixtures on the UK festival... Read more... |
Photo Gallery: Top Deck
Sunday, 22 January 2012
In popular myth, Margaret Thatcher reportedly said that any man still travelling by bus after the age of 30 could consider himself a failure. The quote is almost certainly apocryphal, but it stuck... Read more... |
Art Gallery: London Art Fair 2012
Tuesday, 17 January 2012
Featuring over 100 galleries specialising in modern and contemporary British art, the London Art Fair is a January highlight for those who prefer a more relaxed atmosphere to that offered by the... Read more... |
Photo Gallery: Ken Russell - A Retrospective
Monday, 28 November 2011
An exhibition of Ken Russell's photographs, taken in the 1950s, spirits you back to a London still in recovery from the trauma of war. And yet seen through the prism of Russell's lively eye,... Read more... |
Art Gallery: Egyptian and Nubian Galleries, Ashmolean Museum
Friday, 25 November 2011
The Ashmolean Museum opens the doors to its Egyptian and Nubian galleries tomorrow and in these six refurbished rooms you’ll be able to see one of the greatest collections (among some 40,000... Read more... |
TV Gallery: Frozen Planet
Sunday, 30 October 2011
What we're used to seeing whenever the BBC launches on one of its epic explorations of the natural world is moving pictures. But as well as training film cameras at their subects, from the largest... Read more... |
Gallery: David McCabe and the Early Years of Warhol's Factory
Thursday, 20 October 2011
Who needs to hear or see anything more of the creepily manipulative world of Andy Warhol’s Factory? We’ve seen the films (well, bits of them); we bought the album (the one with the banana on the... Read more... |
Photo Gallery: Corinne Day - The Face
Sunday, 04 September 2011
The Eighties, the decade that fed us the creed of “greed is good”, spawned the fashion “glamazon”. She had supergloss looks and a full décolletage, and, naturally, she wouldn’t get out of bed for... Read more... |
Graffiti Gallery: Crack & Shine International
Friday, 19 August 2011
It’s not the first time we have showcased the work of Will... Read more... |
BBC Proms Gallery: Horrible Histories
Saturday, 30 July 2011
After two Proms devoted to Doctor Who, this year's children's Prom ceded the floor today... Read more... |
Art Gallery: The Worlds of Mervyn Peake
Tuesday, 05 July 2011
Best known for the Gormenghast Trilogy, Mervyn Peake, who died in 1968 and whose centenary is celebrated this year, was also an artist, an illustrator and a poet. As well as illustrating... Read more... |
Marcel van Eeden, Sprueth Magers London
Monday, 27 June 2011
An article in this week's New Yorker bemoans the death of drawing in art. Why has the emphasis on craft, Adam Gopnik writes, been replaced by concept? He has evidently not seen the... Read more... |
Gallery: Weddings and Movie Stars
Sunday, 29 May 2011
Movie stars and marriage have always helped the headline-writers. When in 1956 Arthur Miller and Marilyn Monroe tied the knot (he for the second time, she the third), they were dubbed the Egghead... Read more... |
Photo Gallery: Moby, Destroyed
Saturday, 14 May 2011
As well as a new album, Destroyed, Moby is putting out a book of photographic prints under the same title. The idea of the book is to capture the essence of being on a global tour, from... Read more... |
Photo Gallery: Figures and Fiction - Contemporary South African Photography, V&A
Wednesday, 13 April 2011
It’s been 17 years since apartheid came to an end in South Africa, and the... Read more... |
Art Gallery: The Wellcome's Dirt - The Filthy Reality of Everyday Life
Wednesday, 23 March 2011
There have been exhibitions, indeed even a whole museum, dedicated to cleanliness: the Deutsches Hygiene Museum in Dresden, for instance (image 9), which was founded for the... Read more... |
Film Gallery: Angela Allen's Life in the Movies
Saturday, 05 March 2011
“I’ve never been intimidated by them. I don't suffer from thinking, that person is a star. They’ve got their job. I’ve got mine. If they’re pleasant so much the better.” Angela Allen’s lifetime in... Read more... |
Production Gallery: The Royal Ballet's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
Monday, 28 February 2011
Charlotte MacMillan took photographs of the first new full-length ballet at The Royal Ballet for 16 years, Christopher Wheeldon's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, which premiered last... Read more... |
Cob Studios & Gallery: Is north the new east?
Thursday, 17 February 2011
A burgeoning North London art scene, which includes the Zabludowicz Collection in Chalk Farm and one of the London outposts of the Gagosian Gallery, suggests that the art world has the North firmly... Read more... |
Art Gallery: Guitar Heroes - Legendary Craftsmen from Italy to New York
Sunday, 13 February 2011
From a guitar by Matteo Sellas dating back to Germany before 1630 to one made in New York by John Monteleone in 2008, the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s ... Read more... |
Photo Gallery: The Best View of Heaven is From Hell
Saturday, 29 January 2011
"There's a similarity between being a soldier and a photographer. They are both looking intensely for the moment." Bran Symondson would know. He served with the British Army in Afghanistan before... Read more... |
Photo Gallery: 50 Years of the Ballet, By Colin Jones
Thursday, 13 January 2011
Rudy and Margot do intensely serious barre in an Italian garden, Lynn Seymour enjoys a "Loyal Ballet" poster on a 1962 Japanese tour, in Glasgow two ballet girls snatch some rest in uncomfortable... Read more... |
Photo Gallery: Ballet in Focus
Monday, 13 December 2010
A display of rarely seen photographs of key ballet dancers from the start of the 20th century goes on display at the National Portrait Gallery. The gallery holds the largest surviving archive of... Read more... |
Art Gallery: Unseen Salvador Dalí
Friday, 03 December 2010
The unseen Dalí? Surely not. Anyone who ever popped into Dalí Universe, the now defunct gallery on the South Bank which was devoted to the flamboyant Surrealist's work, might well ask. Since there... Read more... |
Art Gallery: GSK Contemporary - Aware: Art Fashion Identity
Thursday, 02 December 2010
Fashion and conceptual art come together, sometimes awkwardly, often provocatively, in the Royal Academy’s third and final annual... Read more... |
Film Gallery: Bill Gold's PosterWorks
Friday, 12 November 2010
Although there are thematic links between many of the movie posters designed by Bill Gold between 1942 and 2003, especially in the talismanic use of telephones (Dial M for Murder,... Read more... |
Photo Gallery: Taylor Wessing Photographic Portrait Prize 2010
Thursday, 11 November 2010
The winner of the National Portrait Gallery’s Taylor Wessing Prize was announced yesterday, and as with most prizes you know there must be an element of compromise when it comes to selecting the... Read more... |
TV Gallery: Downton Abbey
Sunday, 07 November 2010
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Photo Gallery: Portraits of Keith Richards 1963-71
Thursday, 28 October 2010
The lens loved Mick. Those child-bearing lips, to use Joan Rivers’s ripe phrase, always came up a treat in photographs. Did it ever love Keith quite so much? Ever since he started creosoting... Read more... |
Fashion Gallery: Future Beauty - 30 Years of Japanese Fashion, Barbican Gallery
Thursday, 21 October 2010
Exhibitions about fashion tend to divide the public. Those passionately interested in fashion go to them; everybody else doesn’t. There’s a prevailing view that we already hear enough about... Read more... |
Art Gallery: The Museum of Everything
Wednesday, 20 October 2010
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