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The best British museums and art galleries to visit in the UK now Museums, galleries and other art spaces have started to reopen. Where can you go, and what can you see? 28 May 2021 • 9:06am Naum Gabo's 'Constructed Head No.2' is one of the artworks reopening at Tate St Ives Credit: Ben Birchall/PA Wire As lockdown measures are lifted, we are now allowed to go inside other places other than our own homes and supermarkets, art galleries are back open, whether for a family outing or just a wander around to admire the art on offer. Some smaller commercial galleries were allowed to reopen before May 17, as they’re classed as “non-essential retail” and were thus able to welcome visitors (and customers) back, as other shops were, from April 12. However, more exhibitions are now opening to give people the opportunity to experience the works that they have been deprived of for so long.
Nina Hamnett was ‘deadly serious about painting’, as she put it in Laughing Torso, a collection of her reminiscences published in 1932. A photograph of her as a young woman in her studio shows her standing with confidence, obscuring her easel, in wide-legged crêpe trousers and sandals, a cigarette in hand, her expression both earnest and ironic. At art school, under the tutelage of William Nicholson, she learned still life, placing objects – everyday, domestic things: an inkwell, an hydra jug, a two-handled cup, a small glass of white wine – not-quite squarely within the frame, the objects cropped at their edges. She disobeyed the conventions of the genre: no luminous porcelain, no flowers; the paintings do not glow. Her palette was London rooftops on a grey afternoon, solid browns and gloomy greens reflecting the material conditions of the paintings’ setting: a wooden tabletop in a rented room in Fitzrovia. In portraiture, she went beyond formality, finding ways to convey frankness, intimacy and humour. Sickert gave her advice on painting, which she ignored; she modelled, learning from her own form, but for the most part, she taught herself. ‘I painted a life-size portrait of myself in the looking-glass. The colour was very dull but it was well drawn.’
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A complete guide to British museums and galleries reopening Museums, galleries and other art spaces have started to reopen. Where can you go, and what can you see? 13 May 2021 • 6:12pm Naum Gabo's 'Constructed Head No.2' is one of the artworks reopening at Tate St Ives Credit: Ben Birchall/PA Wire Art is back. During lockdown, of course, it never truly left. But the joys of a solo mooch around a gallery, or a family outing, were put on hold. But now, from May 1 in some parts of the UK, and 17 May in England, the nation's galleries and art museums can welcome visitors again at last. Some smaller commercial galleries have already reopened, as they’re classed as “non-essential retail” and were thus able to welcome visitors (and customers) back, as other shops were, from April 12.
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