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Viewing The Burrell Collection

The Wick - Pink Roses Peploe, Samuel John. Courtesy CSG CIC Glasgow Museums and Collections.

Above Pink Roses Peploe, Samuel John. Courtesy CSG CIC Glasgow Museums and Collections.

The Wick - Portrait of Miss Mary Burrell, John Lavery. Courtesy CSG CIC Glasgow Museums and Collections.

Above Portrait of Miss Mary Burrell, John Lavery. Courtesy CSG CIC Glasgow Museums and Collections.

The Wick - Princess Cecily. Courtesy CSG CIC Glasgow Museums and Collections.

Above Princess Cecily. Courtesy CSG CIC Glasgow Museums and Collections.

Above Pink Roses Peploe, Samuel John. Courtesy CSG CIC Glasgow Museums and Collections.

Above Portrait of Miss Mary Burrell, John Lavery. Courtesy CSG CIC Glasgow Museums and Collections.

Above Princess Cecily. Courtesy CSG CIC Glasgow Museums and Collections.

Opening in March 2022
The Burrell Collection, Glasgow
https://burrellcollection.com

The Burrell Collection is one of the finest civic museum collections in the UK. The collection of around 9,000 objects was assembled by Sir William Burrell (1861-1958) and his wife Constance and generously donated by the couple to the City of Glasgow in 1944.

Although best known for its glorious collection of gothic and early renaissance works of art from Northern Europe, and its significant group of Degas works, it also includes one of the most significant holdings of Chinese art in the UK. Additionally, it is home to an important collection of medieval treasures including stained glass and arms and armour, over 200 tapestries which rank among the finest in the world, and paintings by such celebrated French Impressionists as Manet and Cézanne.

The Burrell Collection is housed in a purpose-built premise in Glasgow’s Pollok Country Park. The building, which has been closed for refurbishment since 2016, will now reopen in March. When it does, you’ll be able to visit all three of its floors, including the museum’s stores; enjoy new immersive and interactive displays; and access new learning and community areas, a refreshed café, indoor picnic areas as well as a bigger shop.

Viewing The new National Museum of Art, Architecture and Design

The Wick - The National Museum of Art, Architecture and Design, Oslo

Above The National Museum of Art, Architecture and Design, Oslo

The Wick - The Munch Room at The National Museum of Art, Architecture and Design, Oslo

Above The Munch Room at The National Museum of Art, Architecture and Design, Oslo

The Wick - Edda Grimnes 'Maren Dress,' at The National Museum of Art, Architecture and Design, Oslo

Above Edda Grimnes ‘Maren Dress,’ at The National Museum of Art, Architecture and Design, Oslo

The Wick - Edvard Much 'Madonna,' at The National Museum of Art, Architecture and Design, Oslo

Above Edvard Much ‘Madonna,’ at The National Museum of Art, Architecture and Design, Oslo

Above The National Museum of Art, Architecture and Design, Oslo

Above The Munch Room at The National Museum of Art, Architecture and Design, Oslo

Above Edda Grimnes ‘Maren Dress,’ at The National Museum of Art, Architecture and Design, Oslo

Above Edvard Much ‘Madonna,’ at The National Museum of Art, Architecture and Design, Oslo

Opening on 11 June 2022
Oslo, Norway
https://www.nasjonalmuseet.no/en/

Originally scheduled to open in 2020, Norway’s new National Museum of Art, Architecture and Design will now open on 11 June 2022. The largest museum in the Nordic region brings together the collections of three of Norway’s most important art institutions: the former Museum of Decorative Arts and Design, which closed in 2016; the Museum of Contemporary Art, which closed in 2017; and the National Gallery, which closed in 2019.

Designed by German architects Kleihues + Schuwerk, the new National Museum will display more than 5000 artworks spanning millennia and media. Among the star exhibits are Edvard Munch’s The Scream (1893) and a self-portrait by Vincent van Gogh from 1889, which was recently confirmed as genuine after 50 years of uncertainty. Elsewhere, you’ll find everything from prints and drawings, including the largest collection of drawings outside of Dresden by the German romantic painter Caspar David Friedrich, to textiles, Chinese Imperial porcelain and Swiss landscape paintings.

The vast 54,600-square-metre building features extensive exhibition galleries, cafes, a shop and the largest art library in Norway. The architectural showstopper, however, is the Light Hall, an illuminated exhibition space at the heart of the building with marble glass walls. It will host a rich programme of temporary exhibitions, the first of which will be a survey of contemporary Norwegian art. Never has there been a better reason to visit the Norwegian. Capital.

Viewing Rachel Jones: SMIIILLLLEEEE

Above SMIIILLLLEEEE, 2021

The Wick - Viewing Rachel Jones: SMIIILLLLEEEE

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Above SMIIILLLLEEEE, 2021

9 December 2021 — 5 February 2022
Thaddaeus Ropac, London
https://ropac.net/exhibitions/607-rachel-jones-smiiilllleeee/

Rachel Jones has never been busier — or more in demand. Since graduating from the Royal Academy Schools in 2019, she has gained attention from critics and collectors alike and seen her work placed in prestigious public collections around the world. Last year, she joined Thaddaeus Ropac Gallery — where she’s currently enjoying a solo show in London — and in March 2022 she has her first UK institutional show, at Chisenhale Gallery. She has already enjoyed much praise this year for her arresting work in Hayward Gallery’s Mixing It Up: Painting Today.

Jones’s art explores the interiority of Black bodies and their lived experience through textured compositions that blend figuration with abstraction. ‘I learned a lot about how to interrogate my own thoughts and feelings through my practice, in a way that I hadn’t before,’ she told Rianna Jade Parker, of her time at art school. ‘I was trying to centre my experience as a Black woman in a space that is predominantly white and, ultimately, not designed for me to thrive.’

In her new body of a work, Jones investigates a sense of self as a visual, visceral experience. Look closely and you’ll see her signature mouths and teeth — a symbolic and literal entry point to the interior and the self — as well as floral forms which emerge and recede from view. These expressive, colourful abstractions pulsate with energy, stimulating what Jones describes as ‘a sensory and bodily reaction in the viewer.’ Spend as much time with these works as you can. We promise you won’t regret it.