Visual arts
Mughal India: Art, Culture and Empire, British LibraryFriday, 16 November 2012
A photograph from 1858 shows a feeble and frail octogenarian who happens to be the last Mughal emperor. Bahadur Shah II (pictured below right), reclining in his wretched prison in Delhi, awaiting trial, is about to be exiled to Burma. Many of... Read more... |
A Bigger Splash: Painting After Performance, Tate ModernThursday, 15 November 2012
A Bigger Splash... opens with Hans Namuth’s famous 1951 film of Jackson Pollock balletically dripping, flicking and pouring paint onto the canvas at his feet. Beneath the screen a long, scroll-like painting by Pollock lies on the gallery floor. The... Read more... |
Light from the Middle East: New Photography, Victoria & Albert MuseumWednesday, 14 November 2012
This compilation of nearly 90 photographs by 30 photographers from 13 different countries of the Middle East is literally and metaphorically illuminating. The Paris-based Iranian photographer Abbas puts it thus: “I write with light.”Framed in three... Read more... |
Photo Gallery: They That Are LeftSunday, 11 November 2012
For the past 10 years Brian David Stevens has been taking photographic portraits of veterans on Remembrance Sunday. The images play on the notion of the unknown soldier. Each subject is portrayed without the distinguishing marks of regiment or rank... Read more... |
The Northern Renaissance: Dürer to Holbein, The Queen's GalleryFriday, 09 November 2012
In what ways was the Northern Renaissance distinct from the Italian one? When we look at a painting by Holbein we’re struck by the painting’s rich surface: we admire the finely delineated weave of a Turkish rug, the individual hairs of fur lining a... Read more... |
Taylor Wessing Photographic Portrait Prize 2012, National Portrait GalleryThursday, 08 November 2012
The Taylor Wessing Photographic… well, you get the drift. It's quite a long title for what is now one of the most fascinating and wide-ranging exhibitions of photographs mounted in London, and which goes out on tour nationally next year. It is... Read more... |
Threads of Silk and Gold, Ashmolean MuseumFriday, 02 November 2012Until 27 January 2013. Many of us are aware of the beauty o f the traditional Japanese kimono. This exhibition introduces the less wellknown but equally spectacular ornamental textiles that were made for weste rn homes during Japan’s Meiji era (... Read more... |
David Bowie is, V&AFriday, 02 November 201223 March – 28 July 2013. The V... Read more... |
Bernd Ribbeck, Alison Jacques GalleryFriday, 02 November 2012Until 20 December Alison Jacques Gallery's second solo exhib ition of Bernd Ribbeck is also the first presentation of his work since he was selected forMade in Germany Zwei: Internationale Kunst in Deutschland,shown over three venues across... Read more... |
Light from the Middle East, V&AFriday, 02 November 201213 November 2012 - 7 April 2013. The first major exhibition of contemporary photography from and about the Middle East, Light from the Mi ddle East: New Photography features over 90 works by some of the most excit ing artists from across the region... Read more... |
Light Show, Hayward GalleryFriday, 02 November 2012Until 20 April Light Show explores the experiential and phen omenalnature of light, bringing together sculptures and installations thatuse light to create specific conditions. The exhibition showcases artworkssince the 1960s in which light itself... Read more... |
Mughal India: Art, Culture and Empire, British LibraryFriday, 02 November 2012The British Library explores one of the most powerful and splen did of all the world’s great dynasties with Mughal India: Art, Culture andEmpire, from 9 November 2012 to 2 April 2013. The ‘Great Mogul’ seate d on a jewel-encrusted throne is one of... Read more... |
