Speed of Life

With strings of pearls and collars of lace - #SargentAndFashion is now open at Tate Britain. ✨ Discover Sargent’s use of fashion as a powerful tool to express identity and personality with nearly 60 portraits ➡️ https://t.co/JzJOYA2XCU Until 7 July 2024. Members go free. 💅 pic.twitter.com/52lHp8FgAB — Tate (@Tate) February 22, 2024 With strings of pearls and collars of lace - #SargentAndFashion is now open at Tate Britain. Discover Sargent’s use of fashion as a powerful tool to express identity and personality with nearly 60 portraits https:// bit.ly/3RTc3iA   Until 7 July 2024. Members go free.   As everyone on TwiX seems to be an expert on the subject of John Singer Sargent - see my timeline! - here are some more of my favourite works in the big Tate Britain tribute to Sargent and Fashion. I know they are all portraits of women but that’s where Sargent hit his bullseyes! pic.twitter.com/aboj665YNq — WALDEMAR JANUSZCZAK (@JANUSZCZAK) February 22, 2024

From the National Gallery in London: "Delve into the strange and magical world of pastels Liotard's pastel and oil versions of 'The Lavergne Family Breakfast' have been reunited for first time in 250 years. Book to visit our free exhibition: http:// bit.ly/3gR1VIO "

‘Art is restoration: the idea is to repair the damages that are inflicted in life, to make something that is fragmented - into something whole.' - Louise Bourgeois, born on Christmas Day in 1911. #LouiseBourgeois , Maman, Outside Tate Modern 2008 https:// bit.ly/3xN04J1

In London, the Piano Nobile Gallery presents the exhibition -  R.B. Kitaj: London to Los Angeles. This short film features interviews with Marco Livingstone, a leading specialist on Kitaj’s work; Simon Martin, Director of Pallant House Gallery; and the artist’s daughter Dominie Kitaj. R.B. Kitaj: London to Los Angeles is the first retrospective of the artist’s work in a decade. It provides a chronological overview of Kitaj's career, exploring the relationship between his art and the places he lived.  The Piano Nobile Gallery explains that "Although he travelled widely, spending seasons and sometimes whole years in California, Catalonia, Paris and New York, Kitaj made London his home from 1959 – the year he entered the Royal College of Art – until 1997. For the last decade of his life, from 1997 to 2007, he lived in Los Angeles. The exhibition includes little-known early work of the fifties, the groundbreaking ‘collagist’ work of the sixties that established his reputation, a...

Gregg Chadwick Changes - David Bowie 41.5"x25.5"pastel on paper 2016 On January 8, 1935 Elvis Presley was born in Tupelo, Mississippi and in Brixton, London on January 8, 1947, David Bowie was born. Bowie's decades of groundbreaking music and his shapeshifting persona inspired so many of us little aliens in suburbia to fight against conformity and become our true selves. My artwork looks back on Bowie when he released his haunting song "Where Are We Now?", which is as much a painting in soft greys as it is a song. A quiet rhythm of drums and synth warp and weft with minor key piano chords and Bowie's plaintive, elegiac voice. Set in a Berlin of memory and dream, Bowie's voice and lyrics question the themes of human bondage, release, freedom, doubt, ageing, and death. Bowie lived in West Berlin between 1976 and 1979 in the Schöneberg district in a house with Iggy Pop while Brian Eno and Tony Visconti were helping record Bowie's Berlin trilogy of album...

                 Gangnam for Freedom - Anish Kapoor and Friends  The British sculptor Anish Kapoor and a group of his human rights oriented friends have released a new video in partnership with Amnesty International and PEN International to bring attention to the ongoing persecution of artists and writers across the globe from China to Russia who have been harassed and imprisoned because of their work. Taking up where Ai Wei Wei's recent Gangnam Style video left off, Kapoor's own Gangnam Style romp combines symbols of imprisonment and torture with the names of many who have been persecuted in their artistic strivings for freedom. Please watch, visit the links, and find out what you can do to help shed light on this growing problem of censorship and oppression. As an emigré from India to the United Kingdom, Anish Kapoor has often been concerned with the ideas of freedom and dislocation in his artwork. I have posted a few exam...

by Gregg Chadwick Henri Maillardet's Automaton at The Franklin Institute  In November 1928, the fire scarred remains of a mechanical boy were dropped off at The Franklin Institute  in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Left in pieces, it took months of painstaking work to reassemble the automaton. Little was known about the history of this extraordinary object. Like the automaton in Brian Selznick's magical, graphic novel  The Invention of Hugo Cabret  and Martin Scorsese's wonderful film adaptation of the book now simply entitled  Hugo , the machine itself provided the clue to its origins. When the complicated cogs and mechanisms were repaired and the machine was rewound for the first time in decades, the automaton's hand began to draw.  Remarkably the machine's mechanical memory, held four drawings and three poems  (illustrated below). One of the poems finished with a signature in French, "Ecrit par l'Automate de Maillardet." The mechanic...