• Guerrilla Girls / Virginia Woolf and the Hogarth Press

    Charleston Firle, Lewes, East Sussex

    Do women need to be naked to get into the Met Museum? Well, in 1989 it seems they did: there were more nude paintings of women than women painters represented in New York’s institutional art museum, as anonymous feminist collective The Guerilla Girls pointed out in their famous campaign. Charleston is showcasing works from the […]

  • Walter Sickert / Gladys Hynes

    Charleston Lewes Southover Road, Lewes, East Sussex, United Kingdom

    An interesting double header opens this spring at Charleston’s Lewes satellite. One exhibition focuses on Walter Sickert’s works on paper, examining the importance of drawings and prints to the proto-Modernist’s practice. Sickert, of course, was no stranger to Sussex, as a frequent visitor to Brighton and habitual user of the Newhaven-Dieppe ferry. Alongside it comes […]