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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…
Spiritual Britten and Darkness (The Red House, Aldeburgh)
BISHOP LESLIE BROWN in his funeral address for Benjamin Britten said: “He believed deeply in a Reality which works in us and through us and is the source of goodness and beauty, joy and love. He was sometimes troubled because…
Ithell Colquhoun (Tate Britain, London)
AN IMPENETRABLE miasma of occultism hovers over exhibitions of artists active in the first half of the 20th century, especially women, and particularly British women. Interpretations of Ithell Colquhoun at Tate Britain echo…
Spanish Paintings and Polychromed Sculpture from the 13th to 16th Centuries at Sam Fogg (London)
WHEN Lord Clarke first launched the 13-week television series Civilisation, in February 1969, it cost half a million pounds. In the spirit of Lord Reith’s foundation charter, the art historian and former Director of the…
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