A master of Abstract Expressionist painting, Mark Rothko sought to make paintings that would bring people to tears. Like his fellow New York School painters Barnett Newman and Clyfford Still, Rothko relied on colour, texture and composition to define a new and daring type of abstraction that propelled New York. . .
The Festival of Flowers 2020 has sadly been postponed until next year until 3-5 June 2021. If you have booked a ticket for 2020, please visit the Cathedral website for details of refunds. . . .
12 June - 11 July
Chichester and environs
The Festival of Chichester is a month-long celebration of the arts running from mid-June to mid-July each year in the historic city of Chichester. Classical music, rock, blues, jazz, folk, pop, cinema, spoken word, community concerts and shows, arts & crafts, dance, theatre, church, food & drink, walks and tours,. . .
15 - 27 June, 10:00 - 16:30
The Society’s annual exhibition of original art offers a wonderful opportunity to acquire unique artwork at an affordable price. There will be a wide range of works including paintings, prints, sculpture and ceramics. The Society was formed in 1939 and is at the heart of the art community in Chichester. . .
This Mexican artist was queen of the selfies long before Kim Kardashian. Her work is often graphic and unflinching with subjects including murder, suicide, marital infidelity, miscarriage, revolution and living with a disability and imminent death. . . .
Sussex Art Fairs will be taking place at Goodwood Racecourse on the 2nd, 3rd and 4th July 2021, in the heart of the Sussex Downs. Come and experience over 100 exhibitors throughout the two main halls with 1000’s of artworks available for purchase. Starting on the Friday evening at the. . .
Rodgers & Hammerstein s South Pacific , (originally scheduled for 2020) will be reopen Chichester Festival Theatre’s Festival 2021. This much-loved, Tony and Pulitzer Prize-winning musical opened in 1949 to huge success, becoming one of Broadways longest running hit shows. It boasts one of Rodgers and Hammersteins most memorable scores,. . .
15 July, 18:30 - 19:30
Chichester Assembly Room
Grace Higgens joined the unconventional Bell household aged just 15 and, for the next fifty years, propped up the Bloomsbury Set in London and at Charleston. Vanessa Bell couldnt live without her housekeepers cooking or her regular posing as an artist’s model. Virginia Woolf tried to poach her for her. . .
