Margot A. Loudon, artist.

I have visited twice the exhibition at the Whitechapel Gallery, “Women Artists and Global Abstraction 1940-70”.  This ambitious exhibition aims to celebrate abstract women artists of the mid-20th century and their role in shaping the art of their time. It is an overwhelming exhibition. Around a core of better-known American women painters and some western European artists swirl lesser-known names ... Read MoreRead More »

This is a short musing on the pavilions I viewed in the Giardini, one of the two principal Biennale sites. Unlike the flexible spaces for national displays in the Arsenale, the pavilions are historically established dedicated buildings, period pieces in their own right.  Their distinctive architecture reflects the times in which they were built, ranging from the early years of ... Read MoreRead More »

One of the rooms in the heart of the Milk of Dreams exhibition in the Giardini venue is entitled The Witch’s Cradle. The Peggy Guggenheim Museum is showing an exhibition, Surrealism and Magic: Enchanted Modernity. These venues celebrate the twentieth century surrealists, in the Giardini space the work of the women especially. In this second of my blogs on the ... Read MoreRead More »

This is the first of three short blogs on the Venice Biennale 2022. How in short blogs to reflect my experience of this event? I was combining my Biennale visits with the Congress of Byzantine Studies where I attended papers on church frescoes iconography. But outside the university walls the shimmering city, an artwork in itself, afforded rich artistic events ... Read MoreRead More »

Wonderful that Torlonia Marbles pieces will be available to the public and academics after too many decades in obscurity. Until 18 September 96 masterpieces of mainly Roman art can still be seen in the Gallery d’Italia, Milan, after which they leave for a European tour.Read More »