Tag: Galleries
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Things I’ve loved in May
Is it me, or did May fly by? With me spending the first week of the month on holiday, coming straight home and into my new job (which, I’m delighted to report, is still wonderful nearly a month in) and a healthy dose of what my mother has taken to calling “gallivanting*”, it only seems…
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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…
Stephanie Franklin 