This is at first blush a curious exhibition for the National Gallery to put on. The Gallery’s permanent collection stops at some point in the late 19th century, I am guessing. When the Tate was created as a national gallery for modern art, one of the issues was when the National Gallery should receive things no longer considered “modern” – always [Read More…]
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Peter Watson,Richard Hamilton and Adrian Berg
In the early 1950’s, Peter Watson was heavily involved with the developing ICA. Although he was to die in 1956, he just had time to connect with one or two artists who are, or who were until very recently, still alive. An example was Richard Hamilton, who died not long ago. I spoke to him earlier in the year and [Read More…]