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An Urban Passion (St Marylebone Parish Church and then St Peter’s, Nottingham)
JEAN LAMB has a track record for reimagining the Stations of the Cross in new and challenging forms.Her carved sculptural Stations of the Holocaust, besides illustrating the Passion narrative, included images from the…
By the Dawn’s Early Light (National Gallery, London)
I WOULD not have recalled the name of Edwin Austin Abbey RA (1852-1911) had not a friend taken me to the Broadway Museum and Art Gallery in the Cotswolds last year. On a typical English June day of grey cloud, chill winds,…
Beato Angelico (Palazzo Strozzi and Museo di San Marco, Florence)
WHO is the patron saint of bursars?* Colleges, cathedrals and conventual houses all need bursars, but Jesus’s teaching (Matthew 24.24) does not recommend an obvious CV. None in the echelons of paradise came to mind. As one of…
12 Advent Stations (Chelmsford Cathedral)
TWELVE Advent Stations are composed of sonnets rendered calligraphically and read by actors, alongside paintings on assemblages formed by domestic utensils; they form a circular journey, the last word of each poem featuring…
Made in Ancient Egypt (Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge)
THIS exhibition introduces us to the stone workers, potters, glass- and faience- makers, metalworkers, jewellers, woodworkers, those who grew and prepared papyrus, joiners, and coffin-makers working in Egypt up until the…
It Takes a Village (Ditchling Museum of Art + Craft, East Sussex)
HAVING to go into a back room to view the works of Eric Gill is nothing new. At Gill’s first exhibition of sculpture in 1911, at the Chenil Gallery, Chelsea, visitors had to ask to view his erotic stone relief Votes for…
Everyday Wonder and Revelation (Clare Hall, Cambridge)
TWO later-20th-century American artists and educators have exhibitions this autumn. Mormon-raised Wayne Thiebaud, master of viscous American pies and lecturer at the University of California, Davis, is at the Courtauld…
The Temple of Solomon and Its Contents (Waddesdon Manor, Buckinghamshire)
FROM the evergreen Sunday-school action song “Building Up the Temple of the Lord” to Hagia Sophia, Istanbul, and St Peter’s Basilica, Rome, the Temple of Solomon as described in the first book of Kings has loomed large in the…
And So, Change Comes in Waves (Leuven, Belgium)
THE Belgian city of Leuven is enjoying a long moment in the sun. A finalist for European City of Culture 2030, the city’s Catholic University, KU Leuven, is also celebrating the 600th anniversary of its foundation.To mark the…
A Retrospective (Palais des Vaches, Lower Exbury)
THE Palais des Vaches is to be found at the end of a gravel track off Inchmery Lane in Lower Exbury. A sumptuously converted former milking parlour, the Gallery is part of Lower Exbury Farm on the de Rothschild family estate…
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