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The best British museums and art galleries to visit in the UK now
Museums, galleries and other art spaces have started to reopen. Where can you go, and what can you see?
28 May 2021 • 9:06am
Naum Gabo s Constructed Head No.2 is one of the artworks reopening at Tate St Ives
Credit: Ben Birchall/PA Wire
As lockdown measures are lifted, we are now allowed to go inside other places other than our own homes and supermarkets, art galleries are back open, whether for a family outing or just a wander around to admire the art on offer.
Some smaller commercial galleries were allowed to reopen before May 17, as they’re classed as “non-essential retail” and were thus able to welcome visitors (and customers) back, as other shops were, from April 12. However, more exhibitions are now opening to give people the opportunity to experience the works that they have been deprived of for so long.
of the 20th century. Challenging Convention, brilliantly curated by the Laing’s keeper of art Lizzie Jacklin, features 60 works of Vanessa Bell (1879-1961), Laura Knight (1877-1970), Gwen John (1876-1939) and Dod Procter (1890-1972), drawn from up to 30 lenders. The artists were contemporaries, living in times of enormous changes and the exhibition highlights the strides they made in a male-dominated field. Gwen John, sister of the celebrated painter Augustus John, found fame while living and working in Paris. She preferred solitude and avoided “family conventions and ties”, yet forged intense friendships and had love affairs with fellow artists, including the sculptor August Rodin, for whom she modelled.
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The Mirror and the Palette by Jennifer Higgie is from the May 2021 issue of Apollo. Preview and subscribe here.
What’s the best way to paint an apricot in oils? In 1663, the 30-year-old amateur painter Mary Beale laid out her method:
Let yor shadowes bee pinke & Lake and Bury oker & in some places […] according as ye life requireth it a litle fine Ultramarine: in some other places where ye shadowes are glowing & ffaint as they are sometimes in ye Crowne there touch upon yor generall rendering with pinke & Vermilion mixed together.
This apricot advice is the first known piece of writing on art by a woman, a statement of technical capacity that reflects Beale’s ambition to be considered a serious artist in the years before she sold a painting. A decade on, she was a hugely successful portraitist in London, taking in 83 commissions in one year at the height of her popularity.