25 May 2015
Episode 61
15 minutes
Art consultant and dealer Kathlene Fox-Davies provides snapshots of some of this month’s photography exhibitions in London. We explore the limitations of photography in Clare Strand’s latest show at the Grimaldi Gavin gallery, look at the photographic record of Frida Kahlo’s wardrobe and investigate Austrian artist Ernst Haas’s previously unseen images of London.
25 May 2015
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