Great Works
Great Works: An Exact Representation of the Game of Cricket (circa 1760), Louis Philippe Boitard
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Inside Great Works
Great works: The Dance of Albion (circa 1795), William Blake
Friday, 7 May 2010
British Museum, London
Great Works: Tobias and the Angel (1607), Adam Elsheimer
Friday, 23 April 2010
Frankfurt Historisches Museum
Great Works: Running Man (circa 1932), Kasimir Malevich
Friday, 16 April 2010
Musee National d'Art Moderne, Paris
Great Work: Stump Speaking (1853-4), George Caleb Bingham
Friday, 9 April 2010
Saint Louis Art Museum, Missouri
Great Works: Christ Gathering his Clothes after the Flagellation (1661), Francisco Zurbarán
Friday, 2 April 2010
Church of Jadraque
Great Works: A Complete New System of Midwifery (1751), George Stubbs
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"Yes – the history of man for the nine months preceding his birth would, probably, be far more interesting, and contain events of greater moment, than all the three-score and 10 years that follow it." That was how Samuel Taylor Coleridge marked a passage in his copy of Sir Thomas Browne's Religio Medici.
Great Works: Landscape with the Ashes of Phocion (1648), Nicolas Poussin
Friday, 12 March 2010
Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool
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FIVE BEST EXHIBITIONS
Italian Renaissance Drawings
(British Museum, London)
Fra Angelico, Jacopo and Gentile Bellini, Botticelli, Carpaccio, Filippo Lippi, Mantegna, Michelangelo, Verrocchio, Titian, Leonardo... quality stuff.
(020 7323 8299) to 25 Jul
Jannis Kounellis
(Ambika P3, London)
(Ambika P3, London)
Steel, coal, overcoats: this veteran of Arte Povera presents dark, heavy, deeply atmospheric objects, deep underneath the University of Westminster.
(020 7911 5876) to 30 May
Bridget Riley: From Life
(National Portrait Gallery, London)
These early portraits were made before the dazzling abstracts: 15 life drawings, stressing her underlying commitment to structure and observation.
(020 7312 2463) to 5 Dec
The Life and Times of Milton Keynes Gallery
(Milton Keynes Gallery)
The 2008 Turner Prize winner Mark Leckey and Martin McGeown create a fictional documentary vision of the culture of MK, our modern blueprint city.
(01539 722464) to 27 Jun
Mark Francis
(Abbot Hall, Kendal)
New sequence of abstracts by the British painter: loud shuddering grids of wires and bars, like electrified tartan, with dark blobs and interferences.
(01908 676900) to 3 Jul