Share this article 10 of the Best Art Exhibitions Reopening in London in 2021 From big names like Hockney and Kusama to the launch of London Gallery Weekend.
After non-essential retail and outdoor hospitality reopened last month, allowing the U.K.’s bars and restaurants to welcome customers after months of closures, the U.K. is now poised to allow the next relaxing of lockdowns. One of the key changes in this phase of restrictions easing is the opening of art galleries, many of which have been closed for the entirety of 2021 so far.
While commercial galleries were permitted to open in April, next week marks the first time that national institutions such as the Tate Modern and Whitechapel Gallery can welcome guests. Additionally, a number of venues across London are due to take part in the London Gallery Weekend, welcoming people back to locations across the capital.
New Director of Firstsite. Sally Shaw on Monday at Firstsite, East Hill Colchester.. A LOT can change in the space of a decade. Colchester’s Firstsite gallery is celebrating its tenth anniversary with a myriad of exhibitions pencilled in over the coming months. However, taking bookings has not always been as effortless as it is now. In its early years the gallery was unpopular. Costing £28million and opening two years late after a series of setbacks, the contemporary art gallery was damned by its critics. It was labelled elitist and failed to get the footfall it wanted. In 2015, Colchester Arts Centre director Anthony Roberts was parachuted in as interim director.
Published February 1, 2021, 8:00 AM
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Nicole Coson: Making her mark in the art world
In London, nobody cares who
Nicole Coson is, or who her mother is or her grandfather was (
Teresita Sy Coson and
Henry Sy, of course), or how big her family’s business is back home.