For the Silly Season I've set myself the challenge of visiting a different art exhibition on every day of the month and blogging about it. Sunday 9 August Installation: James Richards selects from the V-A-C collectionPlace: Whitechapel Art Gallery [...]

For the Silly Season I've set myself the challenge of visiting a different art exhibition on every day of the month and blogging about it. Saturday 8 August Exhibition: From Figurative to Abstract (8 Arab Artists)Place: British Museum Figurative a [...]

For the Silly Season I've set myself the challenge of visiting a different art exhibition on every day of the month and blogging about it. Friday 7 August Exhibition: Ruth Borchard Self-Portrait Prize 2015 Place: Piano Nobile, King’s Place A self- [...]

For the Silly Season I've set myself the challenge of visiting a different art exhibition on every day of the month and blogging about it. Thursday 6 August Exhibit: Crossroads of Curiosity by David NormalPlace: British Library Piazza A portmante [...]

For the Silly Season I've set myself the challenge of visiting a different art exhibition on every day of the month and blogging about it. Wednesday 5 August Exhibit:  The Great Gallery Place: The Wallace Collection The Great Gallery was added t [...]

For the Silly Season I've set myself the challenge of visiting a different art exhibition on every day of the month and blogging about it. Tuesday 4 August Exhibition: Gabriel OroczoPlace: Marian Goodman Gallery, London These new works by the Mex [...]

For the Silly Season I've set myself the challenge of visiting a different art exhibition on every day of the month and blogging about it. Monday 3 August Exhibition: Cornelius Johnson, Charles I’s Forgotten PainterPlace: National Portrait Gallery [...]

For the Silly Season I've set myself the challenge of visiting a different art exhibition on every day of the month and blogging about it. Sunday 2 AugustExhibit: Christine Mackie: the filtersPlace:  Tate Britain Even as the doors of Tate Britain s [...]

  For the Silly Season I've set myself the challenge of visiting a different art exh bition on every day of the month and posting a blog about it. The shows will be chosen in a reasonably ad hoc way from public and commercial galleries, as well as p [...]

In the second canto of Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, Byron agonises over the enslavement of Greece. The hero arrives there at carnival time....But midst the throng of merry masqueradeLurk there no hearts that throb with secret pain,Even through the clo [...]