Welcome to Wednesday Wishes. After Impressionism, Living Sculpture, Dogs, Fog and Bugs this week. The National Gallery has pulled out all the stops for After Impressionism looking at how modern art was made in the thirty years before the First World War. Gilbert and George star in their very own new gallery, off Brick Lane and in Mayfair at White Cube. The Wallace Collection brings together paintings of dogs from Gainsborough to Hockney and the Dickens Museum looks at Dickensian fog. Book of the Week shows that it is bugs that rule the world and change the course of history not politicians and kings.
Mr CW and I flew out to Palma de Mallorca for a weekend of Spring sunshine as guests of Jet2 in early March. I confess that I had never thought of Palma as a cultural destination, turns out I was wrong. It is awash with history, as you would expect of the Mediterranean but also has a wealth of modern and contemporary art galleries. All that and they have bars devoted to Vermouth.
Christies has partnered with the curator Mashonda Tifrere for Note to Self. Which builds on Mashonda’s own music and her love of the work of living Black artists. 15 artists from around the world will be showcased. Free to visit at Christie’s
Do you fancy buying some art? The London Original Print fair has prints from five centuries for sale. Prices range from the eye watering to the not so bad and the variety of work on show is always stunning. The Fair opens at Somerset House on Thursday and runs until Sunday tickets cost £18.
Happy Culturing
Catherine
It was the perfect Spring getaway
Love this. It looks exactly like the kind of weekend break we love too. Bookmarking it for an early spring getaway next year!