Category Archives: Exhibition Reviews

The Forever Loop – Eddie Peake: Curve Gallery, The Barbican, London, 9 October 2015 – 10 January 2016

Posted on October 11, 2015 by gerarddavis09

Dancing to a new ditty Having done a bit of hip-hop and contemporary dance in his younger days, it’s perhaps no surprise that London-based artist Eddie Peake’s new commission to fill the the Barbican’s Curve Gallery is full of movement. … Continue reading →

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Exhibition Review: The Bride and the Bachelors – Duchamp with Cage, Cunningham, Rauschenberg and Johns: Barbican Art Gallery, London, 14 February – 9 June 2013

Posted on February 17, 2013 by gerarddavis09

Ooh, suitors you sir The all-American quartet of Merce Cunningham, John Cage, Robert Rauschenberg and Jasper Johns regularly collaborated and inspired each other. This extraordinary coming together of artistic talent and their personal engagements with seminal French artist Marcel Duchamp … Continue reading →

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Exhibition Review: Bassano Ltd – Ballet in Focus; National Portrait Gallery, London

Posted on July 2, 2011 by gerarddavis09

Puttin’ on the Ritz At the turn of the twentieth century the London photographic studio Bassano Ltd was responsible for portraits of the great and the good of British society, including Queen Victoria and the famous image of Lord Kitchener used on First World … Continue reading →

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Exhibition Review: Chris Nash – A Flash of Light; V&A Museum, London

Posted on May 11, 2011 by gerarddavis09

Dancing Blow Up Hidden away in the deepest recesses of London’s V&A museum, just through the shop, right along the courtyard, up the stairs and past Jewellery, you’ll find the Theatre & Performance section and, until August 29th 2011, an … Continue reading →

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Exhibition Review: Colin Jones – Fifty Years at the Ballet; Proud Gallery, Chelsea

Posted on February 23, 2011 by gerarddavis09

Keeping up with the Jones’ Colin Jones, one of Britain’s greatest post-war photojournalists and famous for his pictures of a young unknown band in the Sixties called The Who, actually began his professional career as a dancer with the Royal … Continue reading →

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