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The one exception to my recent exorcism of the BBC has been listening to several episodes of Composer of the Week on Radio 3, which has been a month-long celebration of one of my favourite composers, Ralph Vaughan Williams.  Though the programme and its long-time presenter Donald Macleod are understandably regarded as jewels of the BBC, even they aren't wholly immune to the failings of the modern BBC.  The season began by trying to speak to its Islingtonian listeners by persuading them that RVW had a 'progressive' outlook. I've just rechecked now and the first episode was called 'The Young Radical'.  They just have to filter it this way, it seems.  For love of RVW, and beautiful recordings, I've stuck with it though. However,  in a later episode Donald Macleod told listeners that RVW always voted 'Labour or Radical' in elections. Vaughan Williams voted Labour or Radical all his life but his music, and Sancta Civitas is a fine example, s

 

Pablo Picasso (1881-1973) Buste d’homme dans un cadre signed ‘Picasso’ (upper left); dated ‘29.3.69’ (on the reverse) oil on canvas 92 x 73 cm. (36 ¼ x 28 ¾ in.) Painted in Mougins on 29 March 1969 Estimate on Request Christie’s is pleased has announced Pablo Picasso’s   Buste d’homme dans un cadre   from the Estate of Sir Sean Connery, as a leading highlight of the 20 th   and 21 st   Century Art Evening Sale to take place on 26 May at the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre (estimate on request; in the region of HK$150 million/ US$19 million). Offered fresh to the market and extraordinary among Picasso’s late works for its orderly composition, graceful, decisive lines, and intensity of expression, this seminal canvas is one of the finest and most striking of the artist’s paintings from the last decade of his life. Buste d’homme dans un cadre  is an epic representation of Picasso’s iconic musketeer motif: the pan-European, 17 th  Century swashbuckling arche

Tate Britain 28 April – 18 September 2022 Walter Richard Sickert  Brighton Pierrots  1915. Tate  Tate Britain has opened London’s biggest retrospective of Walter Sickert (1860-1942) in almost 30 years. A master of self-invention and theatricality, Sickert took a radically modern approach to painting in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, transforming how everyday life was captured on canvas. This major exhibition features over 150 of his works from over 70 public and private collections, from scenes of rowdy music halls to ground-breaking nudes and narrative subjects. Spanning Sickert’s six-decade career, it uncovers the people, places and subjects that inspired him and explores his legacy as one of Britain’s most distinctive, provocative, and influential artists. Highlights include 10 of Sickert’s iconic self-portraits, from the start of his career to his final years. For the first time, these portraits are brought together from collections across the UK

Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza 11 June to 11 September 2022 Curator: Guillermo Solana For the first time in Spain the Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza is presenting a retrospective on the American painter Alex Katz (born New York, 1927), one of the most important figures in 20th-century American art who remains active today, aged ninety-four. The exhibition is curated by the museum’s artistic director Guillermo Solana and has benefited from the participation of the artist himself, who has closely followed the project’s development. Brought together for this event are 35 large-format oil paintings accompanied by various studies, allowing for a complete survey of Alex Katz’s habitual themes: individual, multiple and group portraits shown alongside his distinctive floral compositions and all-enveloping landscapes painted in bright colours with flat backgrounds. Alex Katz.  Blue Umbrella #2 , 1972. Private Collection, New York Oil on canvas. 244 x 366 cm. Private

Bowdoin College Museum of Art June 25 to November 6, 2022     The Family Evening , oil on canvas, ca. 1924, by Marguerite Zorach, American, 1887 – 1968. Gift of Dahlov Ipcar and Tessim Zorach, Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Brunswick, Maine . Wabanaki Birchbark Covered Box , 1834, birchbark and split spruce root, Ambroise St. Aubin family, known as the Bear Family Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Brunswick, Maine Sunlight on the Coast , 1890, oil on canvas by Winslow Homer, American, 1836 - 1910. Tol e do Museum of Art, Gift of Edward Drummond Libbe Abraham Hanson , ca. 1828, oil on canvas, by Jeremiah Pearson Hardy, American, 1800 – 1887. Addison Gallery of American Art, Phillips Academy, Andover, MA / Art Resource, NY This summer, the  Bowdoin College Museum of Art  (BCMA) in Brunswick, Maine, will present  At First Light: Two Centuries of Artists in Maine , an expansive exploration of how artists have shaped our understanding—and often, quite literally how we see—Mai