Henrietta Foster / 17 Jul 2023
Tommy in the Sky with Pain
The Stephen Tomlin Story
What is it about the Bloomsbury Set that keeps us so enthralled? Beats me. But there is an ever-growing, insatiable interest.(...)
Painting
Henrietta Foster / 03 Jul 2023
John Constable: The Dark Side
The Gallery at The Arc, Winchester
When we think of an idealised England like Elizabeth Gaskell’s Cranford, Jane Austen’s Meryton, Thomas Hardy’s Little Hintock, Miss Marple’s St Mary Mead or even The Archers’ Ambridge in the BBC radio soap opera, they all have echoes of the work of John Constable.(...)
Henrietta Foster / 19 Jun 2023
Sex and the Gallery
Painted Love, Wedding Cake and Ugly Duchess
June is busting out all over, so love must be in the air. Or rather, it's a less romantic version - coupling, whether conscious or unconscious.(...)
Henrietta Foster / 06 Jun 2023
Art is Touching
50 Years of the Sainsbury Art Collection at UEA
After the pandemic, museum curators claimed that they had to find a new way to tempt the public to view their wares. Albeit on smaller budgets and with the disappearance of patrons with suspect backgrounds in drugs or oil.(...)
Charlie Bertsch / 27 Apr 2023
The Horrors of Neoliberalism
The Cook, The Thief, His Wife and Her Lover
When The Cook, The Thief, His Wife & Her Lover first hit the screen in 1989, it inspired the sort of intense reactions normally restricted to horror films.(...)
Henrietta Foster / 24 Apr 2023
The Great British Dog Fetish
Portraits of Dogs and The Queen and Her Corgis
For those of us who grew up on the island that is the United Kingdom, there were places that represented for us lovers of Europe a deeper connection with the longed-for-continent.(...)
Natalie Sarkic-Todd / 02 Aug 2019
Art Against Populism
The Images of Marjolijn den Boer
It used to be said that art imitates life. But in a world of larger-than-life leaders elected thanks to fame or fortune, we begin to see life imitating art. Pop art, to be more precise. (...)