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National Portrait Gallery: the reopening review

In 2020, the National Portrait Gallery closed for renovations. And they were much needed, said Laura Freeman in The Times: its entrance hall was “poky”, and its collection “dusty and undervisited” – overshadowed by the museum’s “shiny, shouty” temporary exhibitions. It has since undergone “a £41m makeover” helmed by Jamie…

The Week · Jun 30, 2023

Capturing The Moment review: a painting and photography journey

There is “a lot going on” in Tate Modern’s new exhibition, said Laura Freeman in The Times. Subtitled “A journey through painting and photography”, the show is a huge and ambitious attempt to explore the relationship between painting and photography from the early 20th century to the present day, examining…

The Week · Jun 23, 2023

Royal Academy Summer Exhibition 2023 review

Every year since 1769, the Royal Academy has hosted a Summer Exhibition, a “cave-of-wonders-cum-candy-shop-cum-car-boot-sale of works by known academicians and keen members of the public”, said Laura Freeman in The Times. And, as the saying goes, “it is what it is”. This latest iteration, stewarded by watercolourist David Remfry, features…

The Week · Jun 16, 2023

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Ways of Life: Jim Ede and the Kettle’s Yard Artists by Laura Freeman review – an intimate biography of a life in art

This fabulously detailed biography is a fitting testament to the great collector’s cunning, determination and impeccable taste

The Guardian - UK · May 23, 2023

Kettle’s Yard: how Britain’s avant garde found a cosy home in Cambridge

A new book celebrates Jim Ede, the patron whose museum-home is a chapel to 20th-century British art – in particular that generation who were driven to search for meaning after the first world war

The Guardian - UK · May 16, 2023

Hilma af Klint & Piet Mondrian: Forms of Life review

The premise for this new exhibition is a “weird” one indeed, said Laura Freeman in The Times. On the face of it, the Dutch artist Piet Mondrian (1872-1944) and the Swedish painter Hilma af Klint (1862-1944) have little in common: he was a cosmopolitan modernist, she a visionary mystic; he…

The Week · Apr 28, 2023

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