The Arts Desk check out the photographs of late great film director Ken Russell in their visual arts round-up this week, as well as the paintings of Lowry and the street art that lies hidden beneath New York.
LS Lowry is seen as very English, rather predictable and not at all edgy and is famous for his urban and industrial scenes of stylised pipe-cleaner people. 38 works from the Fifties and Sixties make up this sizeable exhibition at one of the smaller London galleries, Richard Green, showing that Lowry has more complexity than he is credited with.
The British Library has compiled a small exhibition in its foyer dedicated to Charles Dickens's use of the supernatural, most memorably in 'A Christmas Carol', in keeping with the many other forthcoming celebrations for his 200th birthday next year. Judith Flanders' only real complaint about 'A Hankering After Ghosts: Dickens and the Supernatural', was that it didn't acknowledge Dickens's insight in recognising that the real ghosts are within ourselves. Dickens was fascinated by the subject of ghosts although he was not a believer in them himself.
Presenting an image gallery of photographs taken by film director Ken Russell in the 1950s in the light of his recent death, a recent interview with the man himself was revisited. Making use of comic staged scenes and props and taken around war-torn London, the images show Russell's eye for the singular and penchant for the absurd.
A clandestine street art installation that the public cannot access is the Underbelly Project. Jasper Rees risked arrest just by visiting as he was given a guided tour of the artworks that included many big name artists such as Ron English, Faile and The London Police, before the entrance to the site was blocked. This was a project too risky even for Banksy and was an extraordinary protest against the commercialisation of the visual arts.
LS Lowry is seen as very English, rather predictable and not at all edgy and is famous for his urban and industrial scenes of stylised pipe-cleaner people. 38 works from the Fifties and Sixties make up this sizeable exhibition at one of the smaller London galleries, Richard Green, showing that Lowry has more complexity than he is credited with.
The British Library has compiled a small exhibition in its foyer dedicated to Charles Dickens's use of the supernatural, most memorably in 'A Christmas Carol', in keeping with the many other forthcoming celebrations for his 200th birthday next year. Judith Flanders' only real complaint about 'A Hankering After Ghosts: Dickens and the Supernatural', was that it didn't acknowledge Dickens's insight in recognising that the real ghosts are within ourselves. Dickens was fascinated by the subject of ghosts although he was not a believer in them himself.
Presenting an image gallery of photographs taken by film director Ken Russell in the 1950s in the light of his recent death, a recent interview with the man himself was revisited. Making use of comic staged scenes and props and taken around war-torn London, the images show Russell's eye for the singular and penchant for the absurd.
A clandestine street art installation that the public cannot access is the Underbelly Project. Jasper Rees risked arrest just by visiting as he was given a guided tour of the artworks that included many big name artists such as Ron English, Faile and The London Police, before the entrance to the site was blocked. This was a project too risky even for Banksy and was an extraordinary protest against the commercialisation of the visual arts.
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