Articles tagged ‘exhibition’
Vanity Fair Portraits at the National Portrait Gallery
By Chris | February 12th, 2008 |
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London’s National Portrait Gallery has just opened a new exhibition called Vanity Fair Portraits: Photographs 1913-2008. Its an exhibition that features 150 classic portraits that have appeared in the magazine over the last 95 years.
During that period Vanity Fair has commissioned some of the world’s most well known photographers including Man Ray, Cecil Beaton, Annie [...]
Fourth Plinth Exhibition at the National Gallery
By Chris | January 6th, 2008 | 4 Comments »
The National Gallery opens a new exhibition on Tuesday, 8 January, featuring works by the six artists who have been selected as candidates to have their work displayed on Trafalgar Square’s famous Fourth Plinth.
The plinth is in the northwest corner of the Trafalgar Square just below the National Gallery itself and unlike its sister plinths [...]
BT Business Essence of the Entrepreneur Exhibition
By Chris | November 17th, 2007 | Add a Comment »
The Oxo Tower’s gallery@oxo is a holding a holding a photographic exhibition this month as part of BT’s Business Essence of the Entrepreneur 2007 competition. In its second year, the event celebrates the achievements of small businesses especially those that have been successful using technology.
20 winners will be selected in categories including best female entrepreneur, [...]
EuroBollocks
By Chris | October 15th, 2007 | Add a Comment »
London’s Cartoon Museum, first opened in 2006, has a new exhibition which has just started called EuroBollocks: Britain’s relationship with ‘Europe’ 1957-2007 looking at the 50th anniversary of the European Economic Community (now the European Union) which came into being on 1 January 1958 and Britain’s strained membership of it.
The exhibition describes Britain’s relationship with [...]
Pop Art Portraits
By Chris | October 12th, 2007 | Add a Comment »
The National Portrait Gallery opened a major exhibition called Pop Art Portraits this week looking at the portraiture work of 28 British and American Pop artists from the 1950s and 60s.
The exhibition is divided into six different sections Portraits and Style, Fantasy, Pop Art and Film, Marilyn, Innocence and Experience, and it includes pictures by [...]
Get Seduced at the Barbican
By Chris | October 11th, 2007 | Add a Comment »
The Barbican Centre in the City of London will be steaming things up this autumn with their new over 18s only exhibition called Seduced: Art and Sex from Antiquity to Now. On from 12 October-27 January 2008 Seduced looks at the he representation of sex in art over the last 2000 years using everything from [...]
Tutankhamun and The Golden Age of the Pharoahs tickets
By Chris | August 31st, 2007 | 1 Comment »
This November the O2 Arena hosts a major exhibition called Tutankhamun and The Golden Age of the Pharoahs featuring over 130 spectacular objects from the tomb of Tutankhamun in Egypt’s Valley of the Kings which date back to between 1555BC-1305BC.
The last time a Tutankhamun exhibition was held in London was in 1972 when over 1.8million [...]
Nick Danziger exhibition
By Chris | November 16th, 2006 | Add a Comment »
Just read that the travel writer Nick Danziger has been having an exhibition of his photographs taken in Afghanistan. He was commissioned by the Department For International Development to take photographs that illustrate the life of the people of Afghanistan over the last five years and the results, Behind The Headlines- Afghan Lives, have [...]
