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William Morris Gallery to open late every Thursday this summer

01-05-2024 16:00 via ianvisits.co.uk

Good news if you’ve never been to the William Morris Gallery in Walthamstow, as it’s extending its opening hours.
(c) William Morris Gallery
Housed in the Grade II* listed building that was once Morris’s family home, the museum is the only public gallery devoted to the designer, craftsman and radical socialist William Morris.
The Gallery is free to visit and usually open Tuesday to Sunday, from 10am to 5pm.
However, from this week onwards until September, the museum’s ope

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Tate Modern’s Blue Rider exhibition chronicles the pioneers of the avant-garde

01-05-2024 13:00 via ianvisits.co.uk

Just before the advent of WWI, a group of artists came together in Germany to break almost every rule that existed about art — and became the Expressionists. Now, their works are on display at Tate Modern in a collective for the first time in sixty years.
There have been previous shows, one in 1938 of these new artists in direct response to the German government’s rejection of such decadent and un-German art, and later in 1960, but nothing on this scale since.Known as The Blue Rider,

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London exhibitions to visit in May 2024

01-05-2024 11:00 via ianvisits.co.uk

Here is a selection of ten excellent exhibitions to visit in a month that has two bank holidays to spend in the museums.Set to Stun: Designing & Filming Sci-Fi in West London
Gunnersbury Park Museum, Ealing
Free
From laser beams to paranoid androids, exploring faraway planets to alien invasions – visitors will get to enjoy an engaging and interactive showcase of the sets, costumes, prosthetics, props, and artistic visualisations that went into British Sci-Fi classics, including Doctor

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Church court rejects homophobia-based objections to Oscar Wilde sculpture

01-05-2024 08:00 via ianvisits.co.uk

A sculpture of Oscar Wilde could be installed in Chelsea after the Church of England’s Consistory Court rejected objections about Oscar Wilde’s homosexuality.
The sculpture, by Sir Edward Paolozzi, will be of Oscar Wilde’s head with an inscription relating to Wilde on the reverse, and the plan is to display it in Dovehouse Green on the King’s Road in Chelsea to mark the centenary of the sculptor’s birth.
The location was chosen as Paolozzi lived on Dovehouse Street

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