John Wilson - Art in Newport | John Wilson, Guest Curator, Newport Museum and Art Gallery

Art in Newport

Current exhibition

THE ART OF THE NUDE: ARTISTS EXPLORE THE HUMAN FORM

Curated by John Wilson & Roger Cucksey | Newport Museum and Art Gallery, 19 July - 20 September 2008

An exhibition exploring the genre of the nude in the permanent collections of the Newport Museum and Art Gallery.

Recent news

The Art of the Nude: Gallery Talks | 6 Aug & 13 Sept 2008

Join Guest Curator John Wilson for a guided tour of the exhibition THE ART OF THE NUDE at Newport Museum and Art Gallery

2 pm. Wed 6 Aug 2008
11.30 am. Sat 13 Sept 2008

BBC Radio Wales | Good Evening Wales: The Newport Nude (opens video clip) | 22 July 2008, 16h00 - 18h30 | The controversy surrounding the so-called "Newport Nude" painting by Sir Gerald Festus Kelly was featured on the BBC Radio Wales news programme "Good Evening Wales" on 22 July 2008 | Interview with Guest Curators John Wilson and Roger Cucksey, probing behind the sensationalist headlines courted by the daily press to focus upon the factual history of Kelly's controversial Nude Study - for it was never actually banned by Newport Town Council in 1947.

THE ART OF THE NUDE exhibition and the Sir Gerald Festus Kelly "Newport Nude" controversy proved newsworthy with features in the UK daily press followed by global exposure on the Web.| See news archive THE ART OF THE NUDE

22 - 23 July 2008: "Banned brazen nude"

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South Wales Argus, 15 July 2008 | Newport nude can go on view again

"A saucy nude who scandalised Newport in the 1940s is once again being exposed to the public gaze. | Clothed and unclothed and ranging from the strictly representational through to the abstract the exhibition shows off one of the finest art collections in Wales".

Reviews | News Archive

South Wales Argus, 3 Oct 2007 | Art: Review to consider digital plan | Newport has a wealth of art treasures, including work by LS Lowry, Sir Stanley Spencer, Dame Laura Knight and Hans Feibusch. | But with space at a premium, just five per cent of the gems are on public display. | Now public watchdogs are to look at how to increase public access to the collection, which could include virtual viewing. | Cllr Davies suggested the authority's culture and recreation scrutiny forum should examine the issue. [ Argus online version here ]

Metro Magazine, August 2007 | THE ART OF COLLECTING | "Since opening a gallery space in 1895, Newport Museum has collected an important and vastly diverse body of work. | The Art of Collecting means that many historically important pieces are at last on show to the public. The calibre is top-notch and among the artists represented are LS Lowry and Sir Stanley Spencer. | There's a sense of balance to this exhibition, encompassing both new and old, classical and satirical".

Buzz Magazine, June 2007 | DOCUMENTING THE CITY | "The exhibition also celebrates the city's desire to carry itself steadily forward into the future. This unique collection will not only be museum-bound as people can access and admire the anthology from their very own homes - an online gallery and archive has been set up to further enhance Newport's reputation as an extremely forward moving and thought provoking metropolis".

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