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Exhibition on today’s luxury

Posted on January 28, 2015 by worldcityguides

The exhibition ‘What’s luxury’ will be shown at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London from April until September 2015. The ‘What’s luxury’ exhibition will explain and show the ideas of luxury today.

The exhibition reveal the secrets of luxury and shows how it is made and helps to understand the cultural aspect of it. At the exhibition extraordinary and outstanding pieces of different craftsman will be presented to the visitors and several unique works will be also on display from various fashion designers including a couture gown by the famous fashion designer Iris van Herpen and works of the British watchmaker George Daniels. At the exhibition visitors will also have the chance to explore the most valuable materials of luxury such as gold and diamonds. At the ‘What’s luxury’ exhibition the future of luxury will be shown through the various objects and projects.

The ‘What’s luxury’ exhibition will take place at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London from 25th April to 27th September in 2015. The museum is open daily from 10.00 to 17.30 except on Fridays when it is open from 10.00 to 21.30.

Victoria and Albert Museum
Cromwell Road, London SW7 2RL

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The history of Impressionism

Posted on January 13, 2015September 20, 2018 by worldcityguides

The exhibition Inventing Impressionism will take place from 4th March to 31st May in 2015 at the National Gallery in London.

Nowadays impressionism and impressionists are popular but there was a time when this was different. In the beginning of the 1870s impressionist and their works were not accepted. This exhibition is about Paul Durand-Ruel who saw the opportunity and the beauty in impressionism and dedicated his life to it. Paul Durand-Ruel was an art dealer and entrepreneurial in Paris. He discovered and supported the most outstanding young painters of the time including Monet, Degas, Manet, Renoir, Pissarro and Sisley.

After he discovered the opportunities in impressionism he tried to sell and make this new form of painting acceptable. Paul Durand-Ruel dedicated his whole life to build up an audience for the work of the young painters and to creat a market for their works as well. The exhibition Inventing Impressionism will show over 85 masterpieces of the greatest names of impressionism and the movement.

The exhibition will be held at the National Gallery in London from 4th March to 31st May 2015.

National Gallery
Trafalgar Square, London WC2N 5DN, United Kingdom

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The development of the avant-garde movement in Russia

Posted on November 30, 2014June 13, 2016 by worldcityguides

The exhibition Russian Avant-garde Theatre: War Revolution and Design (WWI) is shown at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London from this year October. The exhibition displays the Russian theatre and the development of the Avant-grade movement in Russia during the WWI.

The exhibition shows a wide range of various works exhibited at the museum for the first time in the UK and some of the works have never been exhibited before. At the museum visitors will have the chance to discover the biggest set and costume designs and artists of Russia including Kazimir Malevich, Alexander Rodchenko, Vladimir Tatlin, Alexandra Exter, El Lissitsky, Liubov Popova and Varvara Stepanova. The exhibition reveal the unpredictable change Russian theatre culture went trough in the first decade of the 20th century. The exhibition Russian Avant-grade Theatre: War Revolution and Design (WWI) is shown at the V&A in London from Saturday 18th October 2014 to Sunday 15th March 2015. The museum is open every day from 10 in the morning until 17.45 in the evening except on Fridays when it is open from 10 in the morning until 10 in the evening.

Victoria and Albert Museum
Cromwell Road, London SW7 2RL, United Kingdom

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Conflict, Time, Photography – Exhibition

Posted on November 19, 2014November 19, 2014 by worldcityguides

The exhibition Conflict, Time, Photography will be shown at the Tate Modern from this November. The exhibition will show images from conflicts that have taken place in time since photography was invented.

At the exhibition visitors will have the chance to look through the most powerful and changing times of the world. The exhibition shows a wide range of selections of various pictures taken at the world changing wars. The Conflict, Time, Photography exhibition will exhibit several photographs from different individuals. Visitors will have the chance to explore more on the wars, the life back then and the everyday life and struggle in the life of the people as well. The exhibition displays several pictures taken seventh months after the fire bombing of Dresden alongside with the photographs taken seven months after the end of the First Gulf War.

There will be also images showing Vietnam after the fall of Saigon alongside with pictures taken in Nagasaki after the atomic bomb. At the exhibition there will be also several pictures of the Second World War as well. Apart from these photographs there will be plenty of other conflicts displayed at the exhibition. The exhibition Conflict, Time, Photography will take place at the Tate Modern in London. The exhibition will be shown from 26th November 2014 until 15th March 2015. The tickets for adults cost £14.50.

Tate Modern
Bankside, London SE1 9TG

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Sargent: Portraits of Artists and Friends – Exhibition

Posted on November 16, 2014 by worldcityguides

The exhibition Sargent: Portraits of Artists and Friends will be shown at the National Portrait Gallery from February 2015. John Singer Sargent was an American painter who was considered the best portrait painter of his generation.

He was born in 1856 and he died in 1925 in the age of 69. The museum will show some of the best works of the painter and visitors will have the chance to have a closer look and discover more on his art work. Sargent is one of the most outstanding American painters in the history and from the next year in London the museum will show a wide range of various portraits from the painter. Sargent was closely connected to several of the leading artists, painters, actors and musicians of the time and these connections made him possible to create the portraits more intimate than the formal portraits.

The exhibition will show a great selection of paintings of the artist, at the exhibition visitors can explore more than 70 portraits of Sargent’s time in London, Boston and Paris as well. The exhibition Sargent: Portraits of Artists and Friends will take place at the National Portrait Gallery in London. The exhibition will be held from 12th February to 25th May in 2015. The entrance fee for the exhibition is for £14.50. The museum is open from Saturday to Wednesday from 10 in the morning until 6 in the evening and on Thursdays and Fridays it us open from 10 in the morning to 9 in the evening.

National Portrait Gallery
St Martin’s Place
London
WC2H 0HE

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