Art | Culture | Exhibitions
Becoming the Story KK Outlet, London, until November 26th. This past February, while on patrol in Afghanistan with the 75th Cavalry of the American army, Giles Duley (pictured), a British photographer, stepped on a bomb and instantly lost three of his limbs. After nearly 20 operations and nine months of intensive rehabilitation, Duley is getting […]
Manet, the Man who Invented Modern Art Musée d’Orsay, Paris, April 5th to July 3rd. In the Oscars of the art world, Manet would prove an ideal nominee for Artist in a Leading Role. Like many Hollywood hotshots, he led a theatrical private life fuelled by outlandish affairs. His colleagues admired him but they were […]
Modern British Sculpture Royal Academy, London, January 22nd to April 7th. In a world full of questions, the Royal Academy is about to pose three more. What is modern? What is British? And what is sculpture? The answer is a blockbuster exhibition—the first in 30 years to examine the peaks (and troughs) of 20th-century British sculpture, […]