The Zulu War of 1879 is quite well known and the two battlefields that witnessed a disastrous massacre at Isandlwana and a heroic defence at Rorke’s Drift marked the beginning of the British Campaign. They both occurred on 22 January and involved 25,000 warriors in mortal combat, in which some 5,000 died. Their detail continues to generate a book a year and a regular stream of visitors to the battlefields.
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Live Auction, Tuesday 21st May 2013; Sealed Bid Auction, Thursday 23rd May 2013
Viewing: Friday 17th May through to Monday 20th May 10am to 4pm or by prior arrangement.
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The National Portrait Gallery is offering the first show to focus entirely on photographic portraiture by Man Ray (1890-1976), one of the most innovative and influential artists of the 20th century, a conceptual artist and film-maker but known today more for his photographs – even though photography was not his preferred artistic medium.
An Appreciation by Robert Jarman
In a lifetime of studying the habits and habitats, eccentricities and antics of the British Aristocracy, I have seldom come across any character as amusing, entertaining, eccentric, or as profligate as Hugh Lonsdale.
Manet is the blockbuster exhibition of the season in London. Advance bookings are among the highest in the RA’s recent history, so the show will doubtless help replenish the RA’s coffers. The RA, unusually quick to spot an opportunity, is offering ‘exclusive’ Sunday evening openings – for £30 (double the normal price) – although this includes a drink and an audio-guide.
The opera is based on the well known story of the Minotaur kept in the labyrinth in Crete, who is sent a cargo of innocents from Athens as an annual sacrifice, and is slain by Theseus. The monster’s half sister Ariadne helps Theseus by giving him a ball of twine so that he can find his way out of the labyrinth, on the understanding that he will then take her back to Greece to become his wife.
The opera had its premiere at the Royal Opera House in 2008.
Light from the Middle East
This exhibition is fascinating and contains many really exciting works and the entrance is free.
The V&A has been collecting art from the Middle East and photography since its foundation in the 1850s. Thanks to the Art Fund, the V&A and the British Museum started building up a collection of photography from the Middle East in 2009, and this exhibition represents a selection of those photographs.
Constable, Gainsborough, Turner: The Making of British Landscape
At the Royal Academy
8 December 2012 – 17 February 2013
Aside from its blockbuster, coffer-filling exhibitions, the RA often offers little stocking-filler exhibitions – usually small, low-budget, bijou shows, drawn from their own collection.
Now that the surprisingly successful Bronzes exhibition has finished and before they open their next big blockbuster, Manet’s Portraits (26 January – 14 April), they have a charming, if slightly academic, exhibition in the opulently gilded John Madekski Rooms and two adjacent rooms. All the works come from the RA’s own collection, though they have never been shown together and many are little known.
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The Vintage Magazine’s International Art Editor, Terence Rodrigues shares his experience of The Frieze Art Fair:-
Contemporary art – smoke and mirrors?
For months before, people are planning their flights, their diaries and, of course, their wardrobes. It’s the place to be seen. All other invitations, whether in New York, Paris, Moscow or Beijing, have to be declined. London is abuzz and never looks so lively, sexy, cool or international. It is Frieze Week.
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The Vintage Magazine is pleased to offer our subscribers a 10% discount on all of Frankie Cranfield’s original oil paintings and prints. Please view the collection in The Vintage Gallery and also in the Arts and Culture Section under Objects of Desire Gallery and in Special Offers.
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