Van de Velde Ship-Painting Show: Great Art

After writing about the work of living artists the past two or three weeks, Mary Quant excepted, though she only just died, I’m looking today at two very dead ones.

And after visiting Mass MoCA in the hills where landlubbers dwell, we’re heading out to sea. The Van de Veldes: Greenwich, Art and the Sea is the wonderful, rousing new exhibition at the Queen’s House in Greenwich, just outside London. There, the meridian line rules and the Cutty Sark is moored. It’s where kings and queens were born and lived, the Navy trained its best officers, and the National Maritime Museum educates and inspires.

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After writing about the work of living artists the past two or three weeks, Mary Quant excepted, though she only just died, I’m looking today at two very dead ones.

And after visiting Mass MoCA in the hills where landlubbers dwell, we’re heading out to sea. The Van de Veldes: Greenwich, Art and the Sea is the wonderful, rousing new exhibition at the Queen’s House in Greenwich, just outside London. There, the meridian line rules and the Cutty Sark is moored. It’s where kings and queens were born and lived, the Navy trained its best officers, and the National Maritime Museum educates and inspires.