Siena, The Rise of Painting 1200- 1350 The National Gallery, London Robin Richmond, March 13, 2025 Mother Mary, Comfort me. The embossed municipal city seal of Siena, created in 1250, declares ; “May the Virgin preserve Siena the ancient, whose loveliness she seals.”...
Jackson Pollock, The Early Years 1934-1947 Musée Picasso. Paris Une Année Révolutionnaire, 1793-1794, Musée Carnavalet, Paris Caillebotte Painting Men, Musée d’Orsay, Paris Van Gogh: Poets and Lovers, National Gallery, London December 4, 2024 Trying to overcome my...
Common Ground at the RWS Gallery, London October 10-20, 2024 Lago de Carezza, II, Dolomites, 28 x 35 cm Falling Rocks, Pyrénées, 29 x 39 cm Robin Richmond, September 12, 2024 I am a landscape painter, and my work is about the spirit of place. I travel...
In 1886, tiring of the city, Johannes Brahms left his home in Vienna for a summer holiday on Lake Thun in the Bernese Oberland with a new companion, the contralto Hermine Spies. What a time it was. A combination of infatuation, delight in his surroundings, and the...
Mark Rothko, Fondation Louis Vuitton, Paris, 18 October 2023 – 2 April 2024 Ten very hazy days ago, bright eyed and bushy tailed, I set off from my studio in sleepy France Profonde for the bright lights. I have lived in Paris on and off, through thick and thin,...
Illustrations from left: Andy Warhol, 1970; Self-Portrait, 1980; Carmen and Judy, 1972 Hot off the Griddle, Alice Neel at The Barbican Centre, London, 16 Feb – 21 May, 2023 I always hope to keep an open mind when I see an exhibition, but I am...
Giorgio Morandi Masterpieces from the Magnani - Rocca Foundation, Estorick Collection of Modern Italian Art, January 6 - April 30. I have the good fortune to live in a great city. Right now, London is a city besieged by public sector strikes and terrible cost...
Cornelia Parker at Tate Britain, William Kentridge, Royal Academy or Arts, London. Lately, I’ve been thinking about learning. During the pandemic, I found that the absence of the exhibitions that sustain me and that I write about in these blogs was a woeful...
The last place I lived in America, before moving to Europe at the beginning of the 1960’s, was a lovely small town, just 12 miles outside of Boston. It was a fantasy place – a pleasant dormitory town for MIT and Harvard. Nothing seemed too sinister in the garden. Yet....
The World of Stonehenge: British Museum 17 Feb – 17 July 2022. What is Stonehenge? Is it an altar to the sun? Is it a temple honouring an ancient god? Is it a shelter? A shrine? A monument to a great chieftain? Is it a place of sacred worship? A work of art? Is...