What’s On
2011
Postmodernism: Style and Subversion 1970-1990 at V&A – 24 September 2011- 15 January 2012
Toulouse-Lautrec and Jane Avril Beyond the Moulin Rouge at The Courtauld Gallery 16 June – 18 September 2011
René Magritte: The Pleasure Principle at Tate Liverpool 24 June – 16 October 2011
Glamour of the Gods Hollywood Portraits at The National Portrait Gallery 7 July – 23 Oct 2011
BP Portrait Award 2011 at The National Portrait Gallery 16 June – 18 Sept 2011
The Vorticists: Manifesto for a Modern World at Tate Britain 14 June – 4 September 2011
Summer Exhibition 2011 at the RAA 7 June—15 August 2011
Eyewitness: Hungarian Photography in the 20th Century Brassaï, Capa, Kertész, Moholy-Nagy, Munkácsiat The RAA 30 June—2 October 2011
The Cult of Beauty – The Aesthetic Movement 1860-1900at V&A Museum 2 April – 17 July 2011
Miro at Tate Modern 14 April–11 September 2011
Henry Moore at Tate Britain 24 February – 8 August 2010
Watercolour at Tate Britain 16 February–21 August 2011
Hoppé Portraits: Society, Studio and Street at the National Portrait Gallery thru 30 May 2011
Modern British Sculptureat the Royal Academy of Art, 22 January—7 April 2011
Gabriel Orozco at Tate Modern 19 January–25 April 2011
Taylor Wesssing Photographic Portrait Prize at the National Portrait Gallery thru 20 February 2011
2010
Cezanne’s Card Players at The Courtauld Gallery 21 October 2010 – 16 January 2011
Glasgow Boys, Pioneering Painters: The Glasgow Boys 1880 – 1900 at the Royal Academy, 30 October 2010—23 January 2011
Moniker Art Fair in Shoreditch, London, 14–17 October 2010
The Future Can Wait in the basement of the Shoreditch Town Hall, 13–17 October 2010
Frieze Art Fair in Regent’s Park, London, 14–17 October 2010
Gauguin at Tate Modern, 30 September 2010 – 16 January 2011
Diaghilev and the Ballets Russes Exhibition at the V&A, 25 September 2010 – 9 January 2011
Eadweard Muybridge at Tate Britain 8 September 2010 – 16 January 2011
CALDER TO WARHOL Introducing the Fisher Collection at the SF MOMA thru 19 September 2010
Birth of Impressionism: Masterpieces from the Musée d’Orsay at the de Young thru 6th September 2010
RE:BOB Barron Storey Paintings at Gallery Anno Domini thru 19th of June 2010
New Brow – The Rise of Underground Art at London Miles Gallery Saturday the 20th of February at 4:00pm
Henry Moore at Tate Britain until 8 August 2010
Chris Ofili at Tate Britain until 16 May 2010
Van Doesburg and the International Avant-Garde at Tate Modern until 16 May 2010
Arshile Gorky A Retrospective at Tate Modern until 3 May 2010
London Art Fair at Islington, London 13-17 January 2010
The Real Van Gogh at RAA, London 23rd January – 18 April 2010
Turner & Masters at Tate Britain, London thru 31 January 2010
Majaraja at Victoria & Albert, London 10 October 2009 – 17 January, 2010
Pop Life at Tate Modern, London 1 October 2009 – 17 January, 2010
Anish Kapoor at Royal Academy of Arts, London thru 11 December 2009
Frieze Art Fair at Regent’s Park, London 15 – 18 October, 2009
Futurism at the Tate Modern thru 20th September, 2009
Saw the Futurism exhibition at the Tate Modern Saturday night. The manifesto authored by Marinetti set the tone for the whole exhibit. Getting excited about a group that wants to embrace war and speed was a bit to get my head around. I walked around the exhibit trying to equate the vibe of this fascist mission with the art itself. Aside from the aggressive sculptures, the paintings were cubist and again I was reminded that motion in 2D art was revolutionary at that time.
The insistence of machines and the speed at which things were accelerating as a result of emerging technology seemed to have blown the minds of the futurists. I started to imagine what must have been their world shifting into a brand new and fast reality. Below is an interpretation of the actual manifesto that drove the Futurist’s agenda (I mean art). I think it helps to understand the frenzy injected into this post-modern movement.
Ref| Futurism at Tate Modern, London
