Yinka Shonibare To Coordinate 253rd RA Summer Exhibition – National Gallery
The Summer Exhibition Committee members are Royal Academicians Tony Bevan, Vanessa Jackson, Mali Morris, Humphrey Ocean, Eva Rothschild, Bob and Roberta Smith and Emma Stibbon. David Adjaye will curate the Architecture Gallery. The committee will be chaired by the President of the Royal Academy, Rebecca Salter.
For this year’s exhibition, Shonibare will explore the theme of ‘Reclaiming Magic’ and celebrate the joy of creating art. He also plans to include some work that has not been made in a ‘Western tradition’. Shonibare said: “Reclaiming Magic’ is an exhibition that seeks a return to the visceral aspects of art-making. It will transcend the Western canon, which formed the foundations of the Royal Academy and Western Art History’s reference points. The exhibition will be a celebration of the transformative powers of the magical in art, a return to the ritualistic and the sheer joy of m
Gibraltar Music festival scrapped this year over COVID-19 fears
Artists from the Kitchen Studios Group will be take part in an exhibition at the GADA exhibition
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LOCAL musicians will take the place of international stars this year during National Week
after the annual music festival got axed.
The Gibraltar Music Festival will be replaced by a more low-key event being called Friday Night Live.
It will be organised by the producers of the similarly titled show organised by the Ministry of Culture online during the lockdown.
The change of plans comes over concerns about a possible flare-up of COVID-19 or its mutations in September.
Nicholas Burman
, March 13th, 2021 10:09
John Smith, the artist and film-maker whose landmark short The Girl Chewing Gum is amongst the jewels of the British avant-garde, has spent lockdown filming out of his bedroom window and downloading clips from YouTube. He talks to Nicholas Burman about his new films Citadel and Covid Messages
Citadel by John Smith, courtesy MUBI
Artistic and philosophical responses to lockdown appeared almost as quickly as lockdown itself did. Stuck inside, everyone was left with a sense of: what s this? And what s next? With a playful and ironic approach to deconstructing the narrative conventions of documentary cinema, the work of British art film maker John Smith has been pondering the what s happening? question for a few decades now. In recent years, Smith s also developed a special interest in identity, both national and internationalist. No doubt informed by his experiences teaching international students, and his relationship with the European art
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Western art before the 20th-century was dominated by male artists. There had been celebrated female painters, such as Artemisia Gentileschi, Élisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun and Rosa Bonheur, but it wasn’t until the early 1900s that women began to enjoy comparable success with their male counterparts.
The exhibition features more than sixty works by the four artists
Now a new exhibition at the Laing Art Gallery explores this breakthrough which has been taken for granted for nearly a century. The roots of this lay in the Victorian era, when those born, raised and educated in the later decades of the 1800s were able to seize upon the huge changes in society, occurring during a time of burgeoning modernism, transformation and increasing emancipation.
Scrooge, Oliver Twist, jilted Miss Havisham, David Copperfield, Gradgrind, Lady Deadlock, all of these characters are known even to those who have never opened a novel by world-famous and never-out-of-print Charles Dickens. He lives on. He s 209 today and his books and his life still fascinate.
Married at 24, by 40, Dickens had 10 children, seven sons and three daughters. He had an affair, left his wife, wanted scarlet geraniums on his coffin, asked that his horse be shot the day that he himself died and wanted to be buried in a local churchyard in Kent, in an inexpensive, unostentatious, and strictly private manner .