Articles

Serene and beautiful this art is not!

The Acrobat - Albert Birkle

Magic Realism: The Art of Weimar Germany at Tate Modern, London 30th July 2018 to 14th July 2019

Reveling in the depraved, the carnal and the misogynistic, the art of the Weimar Republic is often ugly and perhaps over-rated. But collectively, this is art that provides a thought-provoking record of a troubled and contradictory period.

Dorothea Tanning: Go girl!

Dorothea Tanning

Dorothea Tanning at Tate Modern, London 27th February to 9th June 2019

Tanning’s accomplished and versatile art is wholly her own - original, perceptive, rebellious, optimistic, defiantly female. Her works wrestle with the psychological constraints of sexuality, marriage and family life set against backdrops of doors, rooms and tables, but it is the unrestrained joy Tanning found in her femininity that blasts through these works. Go girl!