Category: Is it Worth the Trip?
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When Forms Come Alive: Is it worth the trip?
So far, 2024 has involved more art than the entire rest of my three and a half decades on this planet combined. It’s been a very steep learning curve – art appreciation is an entirely new world for me, and not a particularly comfortable one for the most part. Having said that, I’ve been enjoying…
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Women in Revolt! exhibition review: Is it worth the trip?
Another stop on one of my March exhibition-expeditions (more about which here) was my first visit to Tate Britain. I was mainly there to see their current exhibition, Women in Revolt! Art and Activism in the UK 1970-1990. According to the Gallery’s website, it “presents two decades of art as provocation, protest and progress” and…
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The National Gallery: Is it worth the trip?
This is the visit where I realised that not all art galleries are created equal. Another place that’s long been on my “I really ought to go and see that one day” list, my fondness for watching old episodes of Fake or Fortune on iPlayer pushed this one higher up in my priorities. It ended…
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Cute exhibition review: Is it worth the trip?
If you’ve travelled anywhere in or around London in the last few months, you’ll likely have seen at least one advert for Cute, which has been open at Somerset House since the end of January. The AI-generated rainbow kitticorns have, honestly, been everywhere. If you somehow managed to miss them, let me catch you up.…
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London Transport Museum review: Is it worth the trip?
The London Transport Museum* has been on my bucket list for quite some time. Social and cultural history is probably my biggest area of interest when it comes to history – and there isn’t much else as intertwined with London’s social and cultural history as its transport system. As a serial looker-upper when I’m out…
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IWM London review: Is it worth the trip?
As part of my rediscovery of my love for museums, I’m embarking on a bit of a project to try and visit more of them this year – and beyond (because, let’s face it, it’s going to take me a lot longer than a year to get through them all). To prove to myself that…
Stephanie Franklin 