Tino Sehgal | Blenheim Palace | 11th August 2021
Having read about Tino Sehgal’s upcoming project at Blenheim Palace in the Financial Times “Life and Arts”, I was filled with anticipation as to what I was going to encounter, without many preconceived ideas. When I asked the first guide I saw, where we could see the Tino Sehgal performances, she looked at me blankly,…
Celebrating 800 years of Spirit & Endeavour – Salisbury Cathedral 2020/2021
Curated by Jacquiline Creswell, Visual Arts Advisor of Salisbury Cathedral. Escaping London finally, we arrived early on Saturday morning in Salisbury to view the exhibition Celebrating 800 Years of Spirit & Endeavor at the Cathedral. The exhibition commemorates the 800th anniversary of its foundation and the curator, Jacquiline Creswell, explains her concept was “informed by the influence…
Lee Krasner: Living Colour
In 1940 Lee Krasner met Jackson Pollock and she has been living under the shadow of ‘Mrs. Pollock’ ever since; her groundbreaking contribution to Abstract American painting severely underestimated. Take for example the Royal Academy exhibition Abstract Expressionism exhibition in 2016, Krasner’s name was not even included in the list of artists that formed the…
Mimicking the Metropolis
“Travelling, you realise that differences are lost: each city takes to resembling all cities, places exchange their form, order distances, a shapeless dust cloud invades the continents. Your atlas preserves the differences intact: that assortment of qualities which are like the letters in a name” Marco Polo to Kublai Khan (Italo Calvino, Invisible Cities,p. 125) Each place…
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