A Night Scene With An Old Lady Holding A Basket And A Candle, A Young Boy At Her Side About To Light His Candle From Hers – A mouthful (also is that the title of the painting) the Mauritshuis says its An Old Woman and Boy with Candle… either way, either name, its a painting…
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Its a story about re-writing history, changing the narrative of how we came to be as entities; nations, people, defined roles, traditions and customs. This is challenging the patriarchy whilst enhancing the matriarchy and an imagined way of the world different from the history we have been taught. It presents a concept of what if…
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Centuries apart, yet close together on opposite ends of the spectrum, these works depict a story about society. Girl With A Pearl Earring is my second favourite Vermeer paintings (Girl reading a letter at an open window is my first), a master of light and creator of context in the mundane. This painting however, marks…
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San Gimignano is a small town in Italy, a medieval walled town surrounded by an outer newer town. Like all small towns and medieval villages it is utterly charming and old and cobbly and uphill and so, perfect. It is also not the place you expect to see a Helmut Newton exhibition, but that’s the…
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I have a confession; I am addicted to Netflix and Amazon prime TV, and I am not even sorry about it. I could watch hours and hours of shows, even have it on when I am sleeping. When I cook I have on something on Netflix or amazon prime, typically something I have watched before…
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Today is Friday Kahlo’s birthday and somewhere in heaven I want to believe that she and Diego finally have a shot at life together, with lots of children and happiness that eluded them in life. Frida Kahlo, a woman full of mystique, an artist full of life. For years I have followed her art and…
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For a billion reasons, I love Florence. It is my favourite place in the world to visit, short breaks, long breaks, hours even. It’s a dreamers dream and a place of fantasies, but one of the reasons I really LOVE Florence is the Uffizi gallery and its many superior works of art. It houses a…
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When you take in the whole of this tightly curated and uniquely displayed exhibition and examine the sum of its parts, one thing will always remain, it will leave you utterly spellbound. The simplicity and mastery of Balenciaga remain unparalleled, it leaves you with a feeling reserved for a particular time, one that is captured…
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What is Black art? What should it do? What can it do? These are questions posed and answered in this most powerful exhibition of works from 65 Black artists over 150 art works, spanning twenty years from, 1963-1983 currently on exhibition at the Tate Modern. From a replica of Fred Hampton’s door to the portrait…
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