Museum Exhibition Reviews

Sun, Sea and a Little Surprise on a Greek Island, The Asian Art Museum, Corfu

The International Exhibition at Burlington House was the largest one of Chinese art ever to be mounted. It ran from the 28th November 1935 to Saturday the 7th of March 1936.

A number of the pieces that will be looked at in this article were exhibited in the ground breaking exhibition Chinese Art Under the Mongols: The Yuan Dynasty (1279-1368), held at the Cleveland Museum of Art in 1968.

About ten years ago I was invited to host a handling session at the Design Museum in Copenhagen for some of its members and friends. I remember it so clearly as it was one of the most enjoyable evening talks that I can remember giving.

I visited the Lady Lever Art Gallery in August last year and it was a really memorable experience and it was like no other that I had ever been to. The art gallery was an expression of its collector, William Hesketh Lever (who became the first Viscount Leverhulme), but its

The Asian Civilisation Museum (ACM) is set on the north bank of the Singapore River and is housed in the Empress Place Building, a beautiful 19th century designed structure which was built in four stages from 1864 to 1920. It was originally planned as a courthouse, but was to become

I visited Compton Verney again in May last year and for visitors coming for the first time, I would suggest that it is really worth taking the time to walk in the scenic grounds designed by Lancelot ‘Capability’ Brown in 1769.

Introduction Originally built as a castle in the north-east part of the city in the 14th century, the Residenz grew into one of the largest palaces in Europe and acted as the seat of power and residence of the Wittelsbach dynasty that ruled Bavaria from 1508 to 1918. On writing