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Thursday, 2 July 2026

Artlyst: The Art Diary July 2026

My July 2026 Art Diary for Artlyst begins with group exhibitions at Hauser & Wirth Menorca and GRIMM exploring disorientation and complexity as zeitgeist themes emerging from contemporary culture. Exhibitions at The Whitworth, V&A, Cento, Gazelli Art House, and Hauser & Wirth Somerset engage with aspects of contemporary culture in different ways, using dialogical and relational approaches that connect with either the past or the environment. Exhibitions at Fitzrovia Chapel engage with aspects of that space’s history while exhibitions at Charleston and Waddington Custot explore artists and movements from the early years of Modernism. Finally, exhibitions at St Oswald’s Ashbourne and the American Visionary Art Museum focus on current expressions of Christian spirituality.'

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Leigh Nash and Sixpence None The Richer - The Tide.
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Sunday, 26 July 2015

Lived in squares, painted in circles and loved in triangles

The Observer suggests that this summer bigger crowds than usual are set to travel up the long driveway to see the decorated furniture, flamboyant fabrics and wall paintings of Charleston, the Sussex home once shared by artists Vanessa Bell and Duncan Grant, where key scenes in the lavish BBC2 drama Life in Squares were filmed. Also on the tourist trail will be Monks House at nearby Rodmell, where Virginia and Leonard Woolf lived, and Berwick church, which the group decorated at the request of Bishop George Bell.

I visited Berwick Church as part of my sabbatical art pilgrimage and my report of this visit can be read by clicking here. This commission was the first time in the twentieth century in the UK that a modern artist of national standing undertook a complete decorative scheme for an historic rural church. Bell and others involved believed that if the project was successful, 'it would stimulate demand for commissions in churches all over the country to alleviate the plight of many artists.'

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Frédéric Chopin - Concerto pour piano n° 2 (Larghetto).
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