The Art Exhibitions Blog

Opening and Closing in August A blog about current art exhibitions in Britain and Europe with reviews and guides to future shows.

New exhibitions this month featuring a couple of rather influential painters:
Jean-François Millet at the National Gallery in London
Edvard Munch at Kunstsammlungen Chemnitz
These shows and more in our August preview: art-exhibitions.blogspot.com/2025/07/open...

Opening and Closing in August A blog about current art exhibitions in Britain and Europe with reviews and guides to future shows.

Contemporary art and cinema in new exhibitions this month in The Hague and Bonn:
Lois Dodd at Kunstmuseum Den Haag
Wim Wenders at the Bundeskunsthalle
These shows and more around Europe in our August preview: art-exhibitions.blogspot.com/2025/07/open...

Opening and Closing in August A blog about current art exhibitions in Britain and Europe with reviews and guides to future shows.

Contemporary art and cinema in new exhibitions this month in The Hague and Bonn:
Lois Dodd at Kunstmuseum Den Haag
Wim Wenders at the Bundeskunsthalle
These shows and more around Europe in our August preview: art-exhibitions.blogspot.com/2025/07/open...

Opening and Closing in August A blog about current art exhibitions in Britain and Europe with reviews and guides to future shows.

New exhibitions this month featuring a couple of rather influential painters:
Jean-François Millet at the National Gallery in London
Edvard Munch at Kunstsammlungen Chemnitz
These shows and more in our August preview: art-exhibitions.blogspot.com/2025/07/open...

Opening and Closing in August A blog about current art exhibitions in Britain and Europe with reviews and guides to future shows.

New art exhibitions in August in London and The Hague:
Millet: Life on the Land at the National Gallery
Lois Dodd at the Kunstmuseum
These shows and more in our preview of the month ahead: art-exhibitions.blogspot.com/2025/07/open...

Opening and Closing in August A blog about current art exhibitions in Britain and Europe with reviews and guides to future shows.

New exhibitions opening in Germany in August include:
Edvard Munch - Angst at Kunstsammlungen Chemnitz
Wim Wenders at the Bundeskunsthalle in Bonn
These shows and more around Europe in our monthly preview: art-exhibitions.blogspot.com/2025/07/open...

Opening and Closing in August A blog about current art exhibitions in Britain and Europe with reviews and guides to future shows.

New exhibitions opening in Germany in August include:
Edvard Munch - Angst at Kunstsammlungen Chemnitz
Wim Wenders at the Bundeskunsthalle in Bonn
These shows and more around Europe in our monthly preview: art-exhibitions.blogspot.com/2025/07/open...

Opening and Closing in August A blog about current art exhibitions in Britain and Europe with reviews and guides to future shows.

New art exhibitions in August in London and The Hague:
Millet: Life on the Land at the National Gallery
Lois Dodd at the Kunstmuseum
These shows and more in our preview of the month ahead: art-exhibitions.blogspot.com/2025/07/open...

Evelyn De Morgan and the Triumph of Drapery A blog about current art exhibitions in Britain and Europe with reviews and guides to future shows.

Currently to be seen at Guildhall Art Gallery in the City of London: art-exhibitions.blogspot.com/2025/05/evel...

Future of Food, Science Museum, July 2025 I may have been bribed with Benugo pastries before I entered the Science Museum’s new exhibition on the ‘Future of Food’ but I definitely think this is one of their best exhibitio…

New on the blog - Future of Food @sciencemuseum.org.uk - chicken nugget home grown, lab made or full of cornflower? The choice is yours at the latest free exhibition in South Kensington which I thoroughly enjoyed.
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It's your last chance to drink in the Baroque drama of Artemisia Gentileschi at the Musée Jacquemart-André in Paris, on only till Aug 3. This is Jael and Sisera (1620, Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest). Read about the exhibition at art-exhibitions.blogspot.com/2025/04/all-...

It's your last chance to drink in the Baroque drama of Artemisia Gentileschi at the Musée Jacquemart-André in Paris, on only till Aug 3. This is Jael and Sisera (1620, Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest). Read about the exhibition at art-exhibitions.blogspot.com/2025/04/all-...

Our new free interactive exhibition, Future of Food, is now open!

Exploring how food must change in the future to protect our planet and featuring objects ranging from cricket burgers to bird-flu resistant chicken, be the first to visit this family-friendly summer treat. Open until 4 January 2026.

And the question is: What is @moderation.bsky.app going to do about it?

Tried appealing that one before, with no result.

Here's the album cover: John Bratby's Jean and Still Life in Front of a Window (1954, Southampton City Art Gallery).

There seems to be a nipple trigger. Recent appeals don't appear to elicit any response.

Lovis Corinth. Then came Berlin! Lovis Corinth. Then came Berlin! - Museum für moderne und zeitgenössische Kunst in Berlin, Fotografie, Architektur, Künstler-Archive, Dada Berlin, Neue Sachlichkeit und Osteuropäische Avantgarde.

There you go:

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At Watts Gallery near Guildford, you can smell the English countryside after the rain - and The Blind Girl's shawl. John Everett Millais's 1856 painting (Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery) has the accompanying scents to sniff, as you can read on our blog: art-exhibitions.blogspot.com/2025/06/more...

'That Marvellous Atmosphere: Stanley Spencer and Cookham Regatta' (Stanley Spencer Gallery, Cookham until November 2 2025): Not Feeling It

Soak up 'That Marvellous Atmosphere' at Cookham. 'Stanley Spencer's last great vision, a tantalising spider's web of pencil lines was conceived as an image of love. The problem was life kept getting in the way' Review cmillerartlife.blogspot.com/2025/07/that... stanleyspencer.org.uk/summer-exhib...

The Box announces landmark Beryl Cook exhibition for 2026 Taking place 100 years after she was born, the exhibition will re-assess and re-present Cook’s work, giving her the acclaim she deserves.

Just noticed that The Box in Plymouth has announced a big Beryl Cook show for the first half of next year to mark the centenary of her birth: www.theboxplymouth.com/blog/press-r...

At Watts Gallery near Guildford, you can smell the English countryside after the rain - and The Blind Girl's shawl. John Everett Millais's 1856 painting (Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery) has the accompanying scents to sniff, as you can read on our blog: art-exhibitions.blogspot.com/2025/06/more...

One of the pictures that stays with you from Seeing Each Other at Pallant House in Chichester: John Bratby's 1954 portrait of his wife Jean Cooke (Jean and Still Life in Front of a Window, Southampton City Art Gallery). Read about the show on our blog: art-exhibitions.blogspot.com/2025/06/know...

Really struggling, @moderation.bsky.app, to work out why this painting gets flagged as "sexually suggestive".

One of the pictures that stays with you from Seeing Each Other at Pallant House in Chichester: John Bratby's 1954 portrait of his wife Jean Cooke (Jean and Still Life in Front of a Window, Southampton City Art Gallery). Read about the show on our blog: art-exhibitions.blogspot.com/2025/06/know...

A bagel-free match, unlike some

For succinct verdicts on exhibitions in France and sometimes beyond, @eriklb.bsky.social is useful to follow. Sounds like the Cezanne show in Aix-en-Provence is worth the trip...

John William Waterhouse's The Shrine (1895, Private collection) is part of the fascinating Scented Visions exhibition at Watts Gallery in Surrey: art-exhibitions.blogspot.com/2025/06/more.... Those Victorians, though; one critic thought the girl "rather sensual and not so pure as she ought to be".

John William Waterhouse's The Shrine (1895, Private collection) is part of the fascinating Scented Visions exhibition at Watts Gallery in Surrey: art-exhibitions.blogspot.com/2025/06/more.... Those Victorians, though; one critic thought the girl "rather sensual and not so pure as she ought to be".

Dod Procter with an E, of course. Apols for the typo....