Galleries - August 2013

40. GALLERIES AUGUST 13 MAP 26 OLD BOND STREET a ALBEMARLE GALLERY 49 Albemarle Street, W1S 4JR Contemporary British and European Paintings. Jamil Naqsh: The Painted Word. Jul 4–Aug 31. Mon–Fri 10–6, Sat 10–4 info@albemarlegallery.com www.albemarlegallery.com t 020 7499 1616 f 020 7499 1717 b BELGRAVIA GALLERY 45 Albemarle Street, W1S 4JL Summer Show. Until Sep 5. Including Chryssa Verghi, Lesley Thiel, Darren Baker and other gallery artists. Mon–Fri 10–6 laura@belgraviagallery.com www.belgraviagallery.com t 020 7495 1010 c ERARTA GALLERIES 8 Berkeley Street, W1J 8DN Aleksandr Kosenkov: ‘The Brightening Light’. Until Aug 17. Vivid paintings mixing the ethos ofFrench Impressionism R O Y AL A RC AD E ROYAL ACADEMY BU R LI N GTON AR CA D E S T S T A F F OR D S T S G RA F TON S T H A Y HI L L NEW B ON D ST OL D B O N D S T B U R L I N G T O N D O V E R S T R E E T E R K E L E Y S T R E E T A LB E M AR LE S TR E ET P I C C A D I L L Y a e g d f c b Green Park with the Russian Avant Garde. Anna Taguti: ‘Laces and Surges’. Aug 23–Oct 9. Haunting work combining print, textile and painting. Mon–Fri 10–6, Sat 10–5 london@erartagalleries.com tube Green Park, Piccadilly Circus www.erartagalleries.com/london t 020 7499 7861 d ERSKINE, HALL & COE 15 Royal Arcade, 28 Old Bond Street, W1S 4SP Gillian Lowndes. Jul 31–Aug 3. Summer Show. Aug 7–31. Mon–Fri 10–6, Sat 10–6 (during exhibs) tube Green Park, Bond Street mail@erskinehallcoe.com www.erskinehallcoe.com t 020 7491 1706 e MARLBOROUGH 6 Albemarle Street, W1S 4BY Accrochage. Until Aug 16. Closed Aug 17–31. mfa@marlboroughfineart.com www.marlboroughfineart.com t 020 7629 5161 f 020 7629 6338 f RICHARD NAGY Ltd 22 Old Bond Street, W1S 4PY Classic Modernism, German Expressionism, Viennese Secession including works by Egon Schiele and Gustav Klimt, and their contemporaries. Open by appointment info@richardnagy.com www.richardnagy.com t 020 7262 6400 f 020 7262 6464 g WATERHOUSE & DODD 47 Albemarle Street, W1S 4JW Group Show – August. Throughout August we will exhibit a selection ofworks by Impressionist, Modern and Contemporary artists at our new gallery on Albemarle Street. This will include works by Picasso, Munnings, Moore, Calder, Chadwick, Davie, Barns-Graham, Fedden, Klasen and Gear. Mon–Fri 9.30–6 info@waterhousedodd.com www.waterhousedodd.com t 020 7734 7800 A is a Critic, Writings from The Spectator by Andrew Lambirth. 320pp, Unicorn Press pbk, £12.99 This collection ofarticles and reviews by admired art critic Andrew Lambirth, arranged by Sarah Drury, with a foreword by TG Rosenthal, is split into Interviews, Reflections and Reviews, which provides variation and shows off every side and nuance ofLambirth’s vivid critical voice. It is a great book to jump around in; I went straight to articles with titles I liked (‘On art schools’, ‘El Greco’, ‘Unpopular culture’. . . ) and then one finds in the next few pages things one never would have usually read about – exhibitions you had not been aware of, artists usually ignored – Lambirth is a great believer in going beyond the obvious and the popular. Although I found some of his views a little conservative, and do not share his favourite artists (mostly British male painters), this is an enjoyable read because Lambirth skilfully brings to life the personalities and work ofthose he meets, goes ofon interesting tangents, and is not afraid of saying what he thinks (for example, he describes Eva Hesse as “a dangerous role model for self-obsessed youth” in a 2002 Tate Modern review, a bit angry I thought!), whilst teaching the reader an immense amount about art itself. Harriet Braine Harriet is studying at Edinburgh College of Art BOOK reviews

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