Marina Vaizey
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Articles by Marina Vaizey
Jean Dubuffet/ Gwen John and Celia Paul, Pallant House Gallery, Chichester
Tuesday, 27 November 2012
Pallant House Gallery is an extraordinary hybrid, an elaborate and magnificent early 18th-century town house on a narrow Chichester street in the heart of the city, with a soberly elegant extension... Read more... |
Mughal India: Art, Culture and Empire, British Library
Friday, 16 November 2012
A photograph from 1858 shows a feeble and frail octogenarian who happens to be the last Mughal emperor. Bahadur Shah II (pictured below right), reclining in his wretched prison in Delhi, awaiting... Read more... |
Light from the Middle East: New Photography, Victoria & Albert Museum
Wednesday, 14 November 2012
This compilation of nearly 90 photographs by 30 photographers from 13 different countries of the Middle East is literally and metaphorically illuminating. The Paris-based Iranian photographer Abbas... Read more... |
Taylor Wessing Photographic Portrait Prize 2012, National Portrait Gallery
Thursday, 08 November 2012
The Taylor Wessing Photographic… well, you get the drift. It's quite a long title for what is now one of the most fascinating and wide-ranging exhibitions of photographs mounted in London, and which... Read more... |
Peter Lely: A Lyrical Vision, Courtauld Gallery
Tuesday, 30 October 2012
Sensing economic opportunity, the Dutch artist Peter Lely (1618-1680) emigrated in his early twenties to London, and was thus the right man in the right place. After the early death of Sir Anthony... Read more... |
Hollywood Costume, Victoria & Albert Museum
Sunday, 21 October 2012
Going to the movies will never be quite the same again, as the Victoria & Albert illuminates the work of the costume designers for anybody who has ever been seduced by the world of the cinema,... Read more... |
Richard Hamilton: The Late Works, National Gallery
Sunday, 14 October 2012
This small, posthumous exhibition illuminates Richard Hamilton’s life-long engagement with both the art of the past and the latest techniques and technological possibilities available to visual... Read more... |
Thomas Schütte: Faces and Figures, Serpentine Gallery
Friday, 28 September 2012
On the evidence of this Serpentine exhibition of huge sculptures, small sculptures, photographs, drawings, watercolours and prints, the German artist Thomas Schütte is obsessed, but obsessed, with... Read more... |
Renaissance to Goya: Prints and Drawings from Spain, British Museum
Friday, 21 September 2012
Alonso Berruguete, Vicente Carducho, Juan Antonio Conchillos y Falco and Pedro Machuca are hardly familiar names in the Anglophone art world, but their drawings are on view in a revelatory exhibition... Read more... |
Photo Gallery: Everything was Moving - Photography from the 60s and 70s, Barbican Gallery
Friday, 14 September 2012
Take the day, and a stiff drink afterwards, as you’ll need it for this thoughtful and deeply disturbing exhibition. A picture, goes the cliché, is worth a thousand words, and nowhere more so than in... Read more... |
Pre-Raphaelites: Victorian Avant-Garde, Tate Britain
Wednesday, 12 September 2012
The vividly dramatic story of Isabella, from a poem by Keats (in turn from Boccacio’s Decameron,) crying over her lover Lorenzo, who, base born, was murdered by her brothers, was much admired by the... Read more... |
Cecil Beaton: Theatre of War, Imperial War Museum
Friday, 07 September 2012
The wide eyed little girl is sitting bolt upright in her hospital bed, clutching her large soft toy, her head encased in a voluminous bandage. Eileen Dunne, aged three, was injured by shrapnel during... Read more... |
Another London: International Photographers Capture City Life 1930-1980, Tate Britain
Monday, 30 July 2012
Unadulterated happiness: swinging on the wheel, high above the ground, at the fair on Hampstead Heath in 1949, in Wolf Suschitzky’s photograph that effortlessly conveys that sense of moving at ease... Read more... |
Pertaining to Things Natural: Contemporary Sculpture, Chelsea Physic Garden
Tuesday, 17 July 2012
There is a growing fashion for new public sculpture and anthologies of contemporary sculpture outdoors, inspiring various polemics for and against. Kew Gardens has been at it for nearly a decade:... Read more... |
From Paris: A Taste for Impressionism, Royal Academy
Friday, 06 July 2012
As the clouds continue and the rain pours down, the Sackler Gallery at the Royal Academy is filled with sun-dappled scenes from France. The anthology is a potpourri of paintings culled from the... Read more... |
Heatherwick Studio: Designing the Extraordinary, V&A
Wednesday, 06 June 2012
Thomas Heatherwick, a boyish looking 42, is a creative polymath whose inventive and innovative approach to commissions ranges from bridges to lavatory doors, town planning to beach cafes, handbags to... Read more... |