Dulwich Picture Gallery last night launched a fascinating exhibition called “What Are You Like?” In a collaboration with The House of Illustration, 45 public figures have contributed a kind of self-portrait based on illustrating eight of their favourite things from a list of 12: animal, book, clothes, comfort, food, pastime, place, possession, music, shoes, weather...
Dulwich Picture Gallery this weekend hosted the Village Books Children’s Book Festival, including a Tiara Club party this morning for “aspiring princesses”. At the allotted time of 10.30am, there was a huge queue of little girls and their parents, many in wonderful costumes.
These are not words I’ve ever uttered before, but found myself saying them at lunchtime today at Dulwich Picture Gallery where the final St Sebastian painting by Guido Reni was being moved into the gallery and hung alongside five others including the gallery’s own. The only other St Sebastian painting by Reni is in the...
