Henry Moore
LONDON, UNITED KINGDOM - MAY 13: A general view of Henry Moore sculptures on display at the Walk through British Art exhibition at Tate Britain on May 13, 2013 in London, England. Visitors will experience a completely new presentation of the world's greatest collection of British art, the national collection of British art will be displayed in a continuous and purely chronological display from the 1500s to the present day.
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The first thing people think of with Henry Moore is that it's weighty and static and timeless
Part of my job is to find new ways of looking at Henry Moore and putting his work in the context of other artists is a good way of examining his work. So why not start with Rodin?
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The BP Walk Through British Art, Tate Britain - exhibition review
To the first the answers gave an average of under an hour; to the second the answers ranged from a couple of hours to a full day. This was a year when fewer than 500 exhibits were on view — an extreme example of what has become known as “a Serota hang”, from This Is London Read more »
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The London Group Of Artists Celebrates Its Centenary
The London Group is the UK’s longest running artists’ collective, with celebrated members including Henry Moore, David Hockney and LS Lowry. To celebrate its centenary, it’s putting on a two-part exhibition filled with works by existing members and emerg from Londonist Read more »
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Henry Moore and William Blake get their own galleries in Tate Britain re-hang
It’s all change at Tate Britain — as artists Henry Moore and William Blake are honoured with dedicated permanent galleries in the first complete re-hang since the millennium. Director Penelope Curtis has been planning the new presentation since she was a from This Is London Read more »
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Michael Harrison
He was highly regarded by curators, directors and, most importantly, artists, and was able to bring in shows from all over Britain, the rest of Europe, and America. Reflecting his achievement, last weekend, Kettle’s Yard featured in a Times list of “the from The Telegraph Read more »
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Rodin, first and foremost
Seeing Rodin’s majestic Burghers of Calais, 1889, cast 1908, transported from its site outside the Houses of Parliament to Moore’s self-landscaped grounds gives an opportunity to reconsider this work. Positioned on a plinth just above eye level it is pos from The Art Newspaper Read more »
