London is known to be an important centre of arts and is home to many museums, art galleries and theatres. A large number of art exhibitions take place all the time but the best ones that are currently on at the various venues are being reviewed below.
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The First Georgians: Art & Monarchy 1714 to 1760
Critics feel that The First Georgians confounds expectations by the quality of its exhibits describing it as ‘nothing less than a revelation’. This exhibition is currently taking place at The Queen’s Gallery in Buckingham Palace from 6 April 2014 to 12 October 2014 on the 300th anniversary of the Hanoverian succession. The show succeeds in re-evaluating the 1714-1760 period in British history and the the quality of the paintings, furniture, silver and works of sculpture that came into the Royal Collection during this period was often sensational.
Ming: 50 Years That Changed China
Currently being exhibited at the British Museum until 5 January 2015, the magnificent new exhibition shows a large range of articles that anyone would expect to find such as red lacquer furniture, hanging scroll paintings on silk, portraits of plump emperors wearing gorgeous yellow robes, watery-green ceramics, and lots of blue-and-white porcelain. Apart from these, a plethora of surprising artefacts and works of art are also being exhibited.
AI Weiwei
This exhibition is taking place at Blenheim Palace, Woodstock Oxfordshire until 14 December 2014. 50 works of art of the rebellious Chinese artist, who is behind bars in China since 2011, are being exhibited in this exhibition. They were bravely hidden by the curators of the first contemporary art exhibition in the rooms and gardens of the Duke of Marlborough’s Oxfordshire palace.
Ancient Lives: New Discoveries
This exhibition is taking place at the British Museum on Great Russell Street in London up to 30 November 2014. This is an exhibition of Egyptian mummies that offers a lot of knowledge and is rigorous and of a high technical standard. However, it lacks the thrill factor and the main focus of the curators is only on 8 of the 120 mummies in the British Museum collection. They have endeavoured to analyse and discover what lies inside the coffins and bandages without in any way invading the respect and dignity of the human remains but only with the latest techniques of digital research.
Anselm Kieffer
It is being held at the Royal Academy of Arts, Burlington House in Piccadilly, London up to 9 November 2014. The German painter’s latest exhibition is bold and esoteric and is traditionally Kieferesque. However, a new perspective of his work has been presented by the Royal Academy of Arts.
Joan Fontcuberta: Stranger than Fiction
Being exhibited at the Media Space, Science Museum London up to 9 November 2014 this exhibition presents a small retrospective of Joan Fontcuberta’s works that he has created over three decades and that are loosely connected by the natural and spiritual world. He has excelled in creating illusory photographs that lead us to question everything and he convinces us that all that we see is true.
John Constable: The Making of a Master
Being exhibited at the Victoria & Albert Museum until 11 January 2015, this fine exhibition places Constable on an equal footing or a notch above his great rival, Turner.
Late Turner: Painting Set Free
At the Tate Britain in London, this exhibition will be on until 25 January 2015 and it concerns Turner’s body and how his work was affected during the 16 years before his death in 1851 by infirmity and ageing. This approach takes the viewer back to the pictures and how they are painted.
Ming: The Golden Empire
This show is on at the National Museum of Scotland in Edinburgh until 19 October 2014 and it offers the infinite riches of the Ming Dynasty in a small room.
The Other Side of the Medal
This new exhibition taking place at the British Museum until 23 November 2014 examines a selection of medals made by artists who lived and worked in Germany between 1914 and 1919. It is a thought-provoking commemoration of the First World War.
Richard Wilson
This exhibition of Richard Wilson’s works is taking place at the National Museum Wales in Cardiff until 26 October 2014. The revival of his work is an apt tribute to the artist who is known to be the godfather of British landscape painting but who has recently suffered a decline in his status.
Tate Britain Commission 2014: Phyllida Barlow
Taking place at the Duveen Galleries of Tate Britain museum until 19 October 2014, this exhibition of sculptor Phyllida Barlow’s colossal reimaging of riverside London brims over with vitality.
American Impressionism
At the Scottish Modern Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh until 19 October 2014, this new exhibition affirms that American impressionism was beaten hollow by its French counterpart. Contributions of little significance were made by American artists, who nurtured between 1880 and 1900, to the history of art, because most of them worked within a pre-existing European tradition.
Disobedient Objects
This exhibition at the V&A Museum in London is on until 1 February 2015 and is full of surprises as it is about objects used in protest movements.
Jasper Johns: Regrets
This exhibition at the Courtauld Gallery, Somerset House London comes to the city after a successful run at the Metropolitan Museum in New York. It is a series of works (paintings, drawings and etchings) inspired by a photograph of Lucian Freud reproduced in a Christie’s auction catalogue from 2012, for the sale of Francis Bacon’s Study for Self-Portrait (1964).
The other important art exhibitions in UK include Malevich at Tate Modern; Sense and Sensuality: Art Noveau at Sainsbury Centre Norwich; and Terror and Wonder: The Gothic Imagination at British Library London.
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