Looking at Ed Clark, Turner Contemporary, July 2024
Next up in my series of posts on cultural highlights for 2024 is works of art. I visited some very fine exhibitions over the year, notably a number in France, including David Hockney’s ‘Normandism’ show at the Musée des Beaux-Arts in Rouen and a recreation of the first Impressionists show at the Musée d’Orsay in Paris, while in Britain I treasured Ed Clark at the Turner Contemporary in Margate, Don Van Vliet at the Michael Werner Gallery in London (perhaps my exhibition of the year) and Frank Auerbach’s ‘Charcoal Heads’ at the Courtauld. I was also dazzled by my first visit to Kettle’s Yard in Cambridge, an art lover’s former home turned into a museum of itself: definitely my gallery of the year.
Rather than reviews any of these, however, I have chosen some of the artworks seen and have the images speak for themselves. For each I’ve given the artwork, artist and date, the name of the gallery where I saw it, the name of its usual home if different (and if I can find it), and a link to the exhibition or gallery website.
