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Thomas Gainsborough (1727-1788) loved to paint the landscape: he would sketch the Suffolk countryside, the skies with their fluffy white cumulous clouds, and the cattle and farmhands in the fields.
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Anthony Francis, an alumnus of the RA Schools, combines science and art on canvas by mixing silicone and oil paint. His new paintings form the show ‘Looking Glass Land’ at Sarah Myerscough Fine Art. The exhibition is a sea of colour. His works are bold, brightly-coloured, abstract phenomena, some of his canvases are flat, while others are built up into 3D relief.
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RA Magazine visits Horace Walpole's Gothic fantasy castle on the eve of its public opening after a lengthy rebuilding and restoration project. With video
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Howard Hodgkin's new exhibition 'Time and Place' at Modern Art Oxford is something of a stylistic departure. Hodgkin is a reputedly private man. Rarely does anyone see him in the act of making, even his long-term partner Antony Peattie. His work, as a result, emits a kind of intimacy that underscores his bold marks and colours. The 25 paintings on show in Oxford have been made within the last ten...
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Suffolk is not known as a contemporary art hot spot. But this year, a new exhibition has been set up in conjunction with the Aldeburgh Music Festival at the Snape Maltings site. Entitled ‘SNAP’, the show includes 12 contemporary artists. but is only on view up to and including this Sunday, 26 June, the end of the second week of the music festival. Luckily though, not all of the art will be disappearing...
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Victoria Miro gallery in Hoxton has put on two outstanding shows of women artists, both remarkably different to one another. Japanese artist, Yayoi Kusama, creates over the top spotty sculptures, which provide an interesting contrast to Alice Neel’s thoughtful portraiture.
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The Duke and Duchess of Devonshire’s 3000 Old Master Drawings have been famous but out of sight for nearly 300 years within their vast art collection at Chatsworth House, Derbyshire. Now, 12 drawings from their collection - including works by Leonardo, Raphael, Titian, Rembrandt, Rubens and Van Dyck - are on display.
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Just like tea, which happens to be a fundamental part of Jeremy Deller’s installation It’s a kind of English Magic for the British Pavilion at the Venice Biennale this year, the British Council’s exhibition is intrinsically English. The show extracts the essence of the one in Venice, before it tours the UK in 2014.
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Past President of the Royal Academy Phillip King has been known for his sculpture – big, abstract, colourful work – since the sixties. You can see his work in lots of places: the Sidgwick site on the Cambridge University campus and Cass Sculpture Foundation at Goodwood have permanent displays and Gloucester Cathedral shows a piece this autumn, but what he has on display at Flowers Cork Street is...
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Ending this Saturday, Tacita Dean’s feature-length film ‘Craneway Event’ is a must-see. Read more here
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Anish Kapoor RA has been awarded the Praemium Imperiale award for outstanding contribution to sculpture. The imperial family of Japan, on behalf of the Japan Art Association, are presenting Kapoor with £115,000 (15 million yen), a diploma and a medal for his achievements in October.
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