RFI: Current Art Exhibitions in London

Think I'll wait to see the reviews of that one.

Admirable ambition for the new Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster exhibition (free) at the Serpentine South Gallery:

Alienarium 5 is a proposal for freedom and interspecies connection. It is an experimental place in which to discover new forms of love and to imagine possible encounters with visitors from outer space.

The album cover exhib was very small and well random. But still, I wasn't ever sure I'd ever live to see a physical copy of Nommo by Milford Graves and Don Pullen, so that's one off the bucket list, and the curator's small collection of commemorative May 1968 7 inch singles were again something I'd never seen assembled before, and definitely brought out the collector scum in me, which is I guess one sign of curatorial success.

And as xyzzz said, it was only a fiver and there were also the four Deutsche Börse Photography nominees on another floor, all of them worth a look at lovely big print sizes. If I had a vote, I would be torn between the Anastasia Samoylova and Gilles Peress portfolios.

The bookshop has some tempting things. Not an uninteresting selection of 'music' books to accompany the exhib, but I genuinely felt they'd missed a trick by not stocking A Hidden Landscape Once a Week - unless it's OOP?

Pretty sure I'd never been down Ramilles Street before either, and even now I found it a bit of a thrill to uncover a hidden landscape once in a blue moon in central London.

I really like The Photographers' Gallery, it's somewhere you can pop in for 30 minutes and always see something that's interesting or even good

Totally agree, when I worked in Wardour St I would pop around there all the time during my lunch break, always something interesting and the little bookshop is fantastic.

Found out about this upcoming Cezanne exhibition when idly thinking “where can I go to see Klee in London?” Might put links to stuff I’m interested in in here.

!!!!!!!

https://courtauld.ac.uk/whats-on/edvard-munch-masterpieces-from-bergen/

there was a Munch exhibit in Glasgow a few years ago which was amazing and it was nowhere on the scale of that, I am very jealous

Lucian Freud: new perspectives - National Gallery

Visited today. Well worth seeing (I’ll spare my own personal views on Freud).

Not sure that the exhibition discovers new perspectives, and is very similar to the last Lucian Freud exhibition I saw at the Royal Academy (2019 I think).

But, really good large rooms and lighting, though some of the later large paintings are hung quite high up.