“Astonishing” is the writer’s summation of a show that contrasts the Parthenon marbles with works by Rodin. Rodin repeatedly came to London to study these ancient sculptures – as well he might. “[Rodin’s] The Kiss – one of the most sensual and captivating masterpieces of modern times … And those old Greek goddesses blow it away … the greatest works of art on earth”
Another Monet show! The curator argues that buildings were important to how Monet constructed his paintings. At first simply emblems of modernity, they were later crucial in his glorious works about “atmospherics”. In these works buildings were used “as a strong, solid form which served as a screen on which light played”. A video on his London paintings (4 min) is here
Myers is the classic overlooked artist. In 1974, produces the first of three self-published photography books. In the 1980’s, gives up photography. In 2012 gets his first solo show. “Myers’s photographs [capture] a past in which parsimonious resources are displayed with defiant dignity … a mark of pride in the narrow, the pinched, the insular.” A background essay on Myers is here.