THE ARBUTURIAN

TURNER & CONSTABLE  : THE FILM

To coincide with the blockbuster exhibition Turner and Constable: Rivals and Originals, at Tate Britain, London (until 12 April), the film Turner & Constable is due for release on 10 March, directed by David Bickerstaff for Exhibition on Screen (Seventh Art Productions).

Read my review here in The Arbuturian online magazine.

Rivals, Originals, Masters: Turner & Constable on Screen | The Arbuturian

On carousel: 

Director David Bickerstaff filming at Flatford Mill, Suffolk ©Exhibition on Screen

'The White Horse' 1819, by John Constable, ©Google Art Projects

'Burning of the Houses of Lords and Commons, October 1834', by JMW Turner,© Cleveland Art Museum, USA

Turner & Constable film still, ©Exhibition on Screen
 

THE NEW WORLD

THE MAN WHO WON'T CONFORM: GERHARD RICHTER

At the Fondation Louis Vuitton in Paris - a phenomenal building designed by the late Frank Gehry (1929-2025) -  an epic retrospective of work by artist Gerhard Richter is on display until March 2, 2026.

The exhibition is co-curated by Sir Nicholas Serota and Dieter Schwarz who do a great job to reveal the complexity and genius of the German-born artist (1932).  

Read about Richter in The New World, issue 461, pp. 32-33.

https://www.thenewworld.co.uk/rosalind-ormiston-gerhard-richter-the-man-who-wont-conform/?utm_campaign=e3d78db2-1665-41c4-8a42-9bf5f7965029&utm_source=1234568

On carousel : Gerhard Richter: Lesende, 1994 (CR804). Oil on canvas 72 x 102 cm.

Image © Gerhard Richter 2025.

Fondation Louis Vuitton, Paris . Image  © Rosalind Ormiston 2025

Extract from 'The man who won't conform: Gerhard Richter'. The New World, issue 461, 27.11.2025, pp32-33.  © The New World 2025 

THE NEW WORLD

COLOUR AGAINST THE COLD

At the Kunstsilo in Kristiansand - the most beautiful art gallery in the most beautiful coastal city of south Norway - two pioneering artists - Finnish Modernists - have their work on exhibit: Irma Salo Jaeger (b.1928) and Birger Carlsted (1907-1975). Read about their remarkable lives and work in The New World, issue 457, pp 34-35.

https://www.thenewworld.co.uk/rosalind-ormiston-colour-against-the-cold-in-south-norway/?utm_campaign=e3d78db2-1665-41c4-8a42-9bf5f7965029&utm_source=1234577

On carousel: © The New World, Detail from page 34, issue 457, 'Colour Against the Cold in South Norway' pp.34-35.

+ photograph (© Rosalind Ormiston) of the brilliantly white Kunstsilo, a former grain silo, now an art museum on the wterfront (opened 2024). And, at left, the fabulous Kilden concert hall (opened 2012).