Art for art’s sake, money for God’s sake
Published: June 3, 2011
Written by Emmanuel Cooper
The Cult Of Beauty: The Aesthetic Movement 1860-1900Victoria & Albert Museum, London
The Cult Of Beauty: The Aesthetic Movement 1860-1900Victoria & Albert Museum, London
Jan Gossaert’s Renaissance, National Gallery, London
Watercolour –Tate Britain, London
The Poetry of Drawing: Pre-Raphaelite Designs, Studies and Watercolours Birmingham City Art Gallery and Museum
British Art Show: In the Days of the Comet Hayward Gallery, Southbank Centre, London
Hoppé Portraits: Society, Studio & Street National Portrait Gallery, London
John Stezaker Whitechapel Art Gallery, London
Modern British Sculpture Royal Academy of Arts, London
Norman Rockwell’s America Dulwich Picture Gallery, London
On Beauty: A History of a Western Idea edited by Umberto Eco MacLehose Press, £20
Taylor Wessing Photographic Portrait Prize 2010 The National Portrait Gallery, London
Ancient Egypt: Book of the Dead British Museum, London
Thomas Lawrence: Regency Power & Brilliance National Portrait Gallery, London
The Glasgow Boys Royal Academy, London
The Turner Prize 2010 Tate Britain, London
Choreographing You Hayward Gallery, London
The Unilever Series – Ai Weiwei: Sunflower Seeds Tate Modern, London
Canaletto and his Rivals National Gallery, London
Gauguin: Maker of Myths Tate Modern, London
Art by Offenders Royal Festival Hall, Southbank Centre, London
Eadweard Muybridge Tate Britain, London
The Romantics Tate Britain, London
Camille Silvy: Photographer of Modern Life National Portrait Gallery, London