The Herald (Free subscription) | yesterday
The signature work from Scottish painter Alison Watt’s acclaimed show at the National Gallery in London has been bought by Glasgow’s Gallery of Modern Art.
Article Archive (Free subscription) | 08/01/2008
Some of the most popular tourist destinations for those on vacation in England including ghost tours and fascinating historic sites.
Magic Statistics (Free subscription) | 07/27/2008
The Collect for today, the 10th Sunday After Trinity, from the 1662 Book of Common Prayer: Let thy merciful ears, O Lord, be open to the prayers of thy humble servants; and that they may obtain their petitions make them to ask such things as shall please thee; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen. The Epistle: [...]
Liverpool Art and Culture (Free subscription) | 07/27/2008
This excellent exhibition finishes on 10 August 2008 so if you haven't seen it yet you don't have much longer. Its by no means just pictures of steam trains, its more a fascinating portrayal of society and the traversing...
Portals and KM (Free subscription) | 07/27/2008
I have always been a great admirer of Turner. I viewed many of this works in London at the old Tate. Now there are 150 works in oil and watercolor spanning more than half a century that are touring this...
The Independent (Free subscription) | 07/27/2008
Love seems a theme more suitable to a poetry anthology than an art exhibition, so it's fitting that the first item on show is Tracey Emin's embroidered, partly illegible love poem, sprinkled with appliqué roses: "Those Who Suffer Love (I'm OK Now)". Heartfelt, skew-whiff, hand-made to the point of being rubbishy, it's disarming and directly tackles the theme. Round the corner, things get a bit more...
Fodor's Travel Wire (Free subscription) | 07/26/2008
Many of London’s best cultural attractions charge no admission, and the number of free museums is staggering. The British Museum, National Gallery, Tate Modern, Natural History Museum, and the Science Museum are a few from the top of the list...
Art Knowledge News (Free subscription) | 07/26/2008
LONDON.- The National Gallery will present LOVE, on view 24 July – 5 October 2008. Arguably the inspiration for great art more than any other human emotion, love nevertheless presents a challenge to the visual artist. How do you depict love? How do you convey its complexity and intensity? Comprising works of art from the 15th century to the present day, this exhibition explores how artists have represented...
The Telegraph (Free subscription) | 07/26/2008
Alastair Sooke looks forward to Love at the National Gallery.
Coxsoft Art News (Free subscription) | 07/25/2008
Today the National Gallery in London opened a touring exhibition which has already been seen in Bristol and Newcastle upon Tyne. It's simply called Love . You'll find it in the Sunley Room until 5 October, admission free. It looks something of a cobbled-together mess. What has Giovanni Battista Tiepolo's The Banquet of Cleopatra (1740s) got to do with love? And why include modern rubbish such as David...
CR Blog (Free subscription) | 07/24/2008
Label artwork, Head 6, by Tom Price From 1st August until Christmas, bottles of Beck's beer will be adorned with the work of four emerging artists – thanks to a new scheme called Beck's Canvas , a collaboration between the German brewery and London's Royal College of Art...
The blog art (Free subscription) | 07/24/2008
These ideas are really important - when well articulated and expressed by the institutions themselves - as I have written about on the Comment pages today
asap news (Free subscription) | 07/23/2008
Travel and Leisure magazine has just prepared a guide for its readers that lists the best free attractions and activities at top travel destinations around the world – to help budget-conscious travelers keep their travel costs in line. One way to save money while traveling, according to Travel and Leisure, is to join free [...]
TravelPod.com Recent Updates (Free subscription) | 07/21/2008
The Independent (Free subscription) | 07/21/2008
I don't need an excuse to visit my favourite gallery in Dublin, but this centenary exhibition provided one. For those unfamiliar with the Dublin City Gallery the Hugh Lane, an introduction may be necessary. The collector and dealer Hugh Lane was the driving force behind the establishment of what is claimed to be the world's oldest modern art gallery.
