HeyJaredTHE ARTS STACK by Rosie Millard
A weekly insight into arts and culture from former BBC arts correspondent, critic and experienced arts writer and editor Rosie Millard. Paid subscribers get weekly Five of the Best picks from museums across the world.
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Five of the Best -Quentin Blake (opens the original)
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Hoorah! A new Museum has opened in my area of London. It’s the Quentin Blake Centre for Illustration, and in honour of the eponymous artist, I thought I would do Five of the Best Blake illustrations, images which have sifted through my mind for years, thanks to the time I have spent reading the many books written and illustrated by him to children, both my own and other children of friends, at school and at Brownies. The great thing about Blake, apart from his brilliance as a draftsman, his ligh
The Great Membership Wheeze (opens the original)
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As something of a connoisseur in these matters, there are a lot of freebies going around. The Bayeux Tapestry, tick. Van Eyck at the National Gallery, tick. Jukebox Arias at the Royal Opera House, tick. Not-exactly-free-but-at-a-£7-bargain-price movies at the Barbican, tick. Why this largesse? Because I am a Member of all the above. Membership is the new black, and is the way that most subsidised arts companies can get into it, frankly. It always has been important, but these days, is going into
History of Art is having a moment (opens the original)
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History of Art is having a moment. It has always amazed me why this subject is usually given a sort of ‘posh outsider’ brief, given that it is the history of contemporaneous creativity, and therefore a highly political, fairly radical and universal subject. Cave paintings, Soviet propaganda, the portraits of Henry VIII, Japanese woodcuts. All of them, part of art history.<a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!smSk!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progres
I fancy the General (opens the original)
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There is one man; tall, aloof, formal, for whom I might have to forego all current situations, were he still alive. I am deeply enamoured with Charles de Gaulle.<img alt="" class="sizing-normal" height="506.2584269662921" src="https://substackcdn.com/ima
Five of the Best - The Bayeux Tapestry (opens the original)
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Today’s five of the Best has to be about this. The Bayeux Tapestry. If you are going to the British Museum to see the Tapestry, here are five moments out of many, many others. I have deliberately left out Halley’s comet, Edward the Confessor and also the Arrow in the Eye, because those are such well-known images. I am indebted to Alastair Sooke and James Fox, presenters of Stories of Art, for their indepth analysis of the Tapestry. You have until July next year to see it, so try your best to get
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