South London’s Dulwich Picture Gallery is to get a bit larger after it secured planning permission for a new building and to open up a closed field next to the site.
The first exhibition since 1950 of one of the leading lights of the French impressionist movement has arrived in London, promising a long overdue reappraisal of the artist.
After a couple of years where we spent much of our time indoors staring through windows at the world outside, there’s an exhibition all based on an iconic motif of the art world – the woman looking out of a window.
Visitors to genteel Dulwich are in for a shock at the moment, as they are confronted with torture, blood, pain, and human skin — in the local gallery’s latest exhibition.
The famous picture gallery in picturesque Dulwich village has long been drawing Londoners from afar to this almost rural outpost within Zone 2 of the travel card.
Just over 110 years ago, an American artist living in London died. London has never really forgiven this insult to its character so it has taken 110 years for a major exhibition of his work to go on display.
