Tag: Tate Britain
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Turner and Constable
At Tate Britain is an exhibition that’s received a great deal of critical praise. That’s surprising, in a way, because it features two of the stalwarts of British art, whose works are familiar enough to most art lovers: J.M.W. Turner and John Constable. What’s attracted attention about the show is its juxtaposition of the two…
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Rachel Whiteread and Walter Sickert
It might be a sign of increasing age, but these days I prefer the quieter Tate Britain to the glitz and gargantuism of Tate Modern. Last weekend we went there early to see the retrospective of the sculptor Rachel Whiteread. Most of the works are shown together in a single undivided room and there weren’t…
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London: scene of flight, scene of destruction
Fleeing from the noise and heat of the midday traffic we took our sandwiches to a bench in a small public garden off Marylebone High Street. What we’d chanced upon was the site of the old St Marylebone church, across the road from its 1817 replacement. Nothing remains of the first three churches (the current…