Uzo Egonu’s exuberant representation of the frenetic spirit of the swinging 60s Continue reading
Tag Archives: London
Painting of the Week: 85
James McNeill Whistler (1834-1903), Nocturne: Blue and Gold – Old Battersea Bridge, 1872/73, oil on canvas, 68.3 x 51.2 cm, Tate. Continue reading
Painting of the Week: 81
James McNeil Whistler (1834-1903), Wapping, 1860–61, oil on canvas, 72 x 101.8cm, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC. Continue reading
Ralph Waldo Emerson in London
Visiting England in 1833, Ralph Waldo Emerson travelled to meet the men who had inspired him – one of these people was Thomas Carlyle, the ‘lonely scholar’. And so a tumultuous relationship was forged. Continue reading
Charlie Chaplin’s Silent Imitation
It may seem cliché, but Charlie Chaplin’s mother provided him an almost infinite source of raw material to fashion into comic and sentimental themes. Continue reading
Ford Madox Brown’s Favourite Things
From flirting to bathing dress, Ford Madox Brown plays the popular Victorian parlour game ‘My Favourite Things’. Continue reading
In Photos: London’s Deep Level Shelters
Corin Faife. Continue reading
Painting of the Week: 15
Pablo Picasso, Child With Dove (1901), oil on canvas, 54 x 73cm, National Gallery, London. Continue reading
Have Yourself a Henry James Christmas
Henry James left America for England in 1876 and stayed for the next three decades. Here, taken from his travel memoir English Hours, James describes a late-19th century Christmas spent in the North of England. Continue reading
