Last updated on December 28th, 2023Tucked behind the Selfridges department store in Marylebone is the Wallace Collection, one of my favourite London haunts. It’s an eighteenth-century city pile with a jaw-dropping art collection and a 500-strong furniture depository which would make Marie Antoinette feel perfectly at home. It’s a sea of crimson red, rococo gold,…
In the Flesh – Erotic Art in London
Last updated on May 14th, 2024It’s time for me to take you on another fleshy tour of saucy London where we visit some of the best erotic art in London. I can reliably inform you that In the Rude was one of the most popular posts on Diary of a Londoness last year. Which of…
Sex, Lies and Paint – Picasso 1932 at Tate Modern
Last updated on December 28th, 2023Pablo Picasso’s output in 1932 was so prolific that Tate Modern was unable to list all of these in the seven-page chronology for its formidable new exhibition, Picasso 1932 – Love, Fame, Tragedy, which opened today. I am greeted by a quote when I enter the first room: “the work…