Scrap the humble pillow chocolate, it's all about tart at the new Page8 hotel in London. On walking into my spacious deluxe double corner room on the third floor of the centrally located hotel, I was surprised to find a slice of chocolate tart waiting for me. But this is just one of the ways, Page8 - which has 138 rooms spanning five floors - is looking to make its mark. Other quirky features include large windows to let in natural light, an artisanal coffee bar in the lobby instead of a stuffy breakfast room and Swedish-designed air purifiers to 'help guests breathe as nature intended'. ...
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Man Ray Portraits is the first major museum retrospective of this innovative and influential artist’s photographic portraits. Focusing on his career in America and Paris between 1916 and 1968, the exhibition highlights Man Ray’s central position among the leading artists of the Dada and Surrealist movements and the significant range of contemporaries, celebrities, friends and lovers that he captured: from Marcel Duchamp and Pablo Picasso to Kiki de Montparnasse, Lee Miller and Catherine Deneuve. Featuring over 150 vintage prints and key works from international museums and private collectio...
Read more →It seems that, as a nation, we've ticked the 'Jubilee box' and made a concerted move towards 'Olympics mode'. So, I'll admit I felt a tad behind the times when I finally made it to see 'The Queen: Art and Image' exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery last week. This touring exhibition contains some of the most recognisable and resonant images of the Monarch herself across from the last 60 years. Reading like a 'who's who' of the art world, attendees get to stare at the entire gamut of royal portraiture from the best of the biz; from painted portraits and official photographs, to th...
Read more →"I've always wanted to create drama in my pictures, which is why I paint people. It's people who have brought drama to pictures from the beginning. The simplest human gestures tell stories." Lucian Freud Lucian Freud (1922 – 2011) was one of the most important and influential artists of his generation. Paintings of people were central to his work and this major exhibition, spanning over seventy years, is the first to focus on his portraiture. Produced in close collaboration with the late Lucian Freud, the exhibition concentrates on particular periods and groups of sitters which illu...
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