Wow, a giant!  Not quite.  Don’t be misled, those are actually very small houses… Like doll’s houses?  Exactly like doll’s houses…  Collected by the British artist Rachel Whiteread over two decades and kept in her basement ever since, the doll’s houses now get their chance to be centre stage. Oh, right.  Why?   Well, they form the most atmospheric of exhibits [...]

This is the second in an occasional series on the right and proper way to behave in an art gallery.  But I really made a terrible error before.  Because this is Art Gallery Etiquette 101, lesson 1.  Really, this is it…   Because you can get away with a lot in a modern art gallery.  Not least in [...]

Read the papers: modern life is symbolised by the recalcitrant mosquito swarm of the paparazzi; the beleaguered celebrity constant prey to the hordes of vicious fucks with the telephoto lenses.  And well, yeah, they are.  But then they also have their bodyguards, expensive lawyers, millions of pounds in their back pockets from selling the non-pap photos [...]

  I’m a little embarrassed by how few female artists this blog has featured in recent weeks, so here’s a Picture of the Week by arguably Britain’s greatest living artist.  No tokenism here though, this is stunning…                       Who? Bridget Riley What? Arrest 1, 1965 Where? Strangely enough, I don’t know, despite spending some time trying to find out (I shall [...]

To the best of my knowledge, this is only the second English language review of the Prado’s ambitious Goya in Times of War exhibition thus far.  As such, I feel the weight of such an important duty rest heavily on my shoulders - I only hope I can do both you, my dear reader, and the exhibition justice.     First [...]