It's downright hot in London lately, and every day seems to pose a new sartorial challenge. Heat isn't something we're used to, and heat combined with unpredictable storms, relentless humidity, and (dare I say) the occasional burst of sunshine throws many people here into a panic. We don't yet have the art of summer figured out. But we do have the start of a summer of art - free, gorgeous, and right on your doorstep.
Today is the start of this year's Art Everywhere project here in the UK. Around the country, and until the end of August, 25 of the nation's favourite art from public collections will be displayed on posters, billboards, at bus stops and on taxis. The works were chosen by public vote and represent a broad cross-section of artists, styles, time periods and subjects. Here's one of my favourites.
Today is the start of this year's Art Everywhere project here in the UK. Around the country, and until the end of August, 25 of the nation's favourite art from public collections will be displayed on posters, billboards, at bus stops and on taxis. The works were chosen by public vote and represent a broad cross-section of artists, styles, time periods and subjects. Here's one of my favourites.
'A Lady with a Squirrel and a Starling (Anne Lovell?)', about 1526-28, by Hans Holbein the Younger. Oil on oak panel. In the National Gallery, London.
The selected works include one of Grayson Perry's amazing tapestries from his series 'The Vanity of Small Differences', as well as sculpture by Henry Moore ('King and Queen'), a photograph, 'Iago', by Julia Margaret Cameron, and paintings by David Hockney, John Constable, Laura Knight, and many others. Be on the look out for all 25.
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