{"id":148457,"date":"2025-11-22T18:08:06","date_gmt":"2025-11-22T18:08:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/148457\/"},"modified":"2025-11-22T18:08:06","modified_gmt":"2025-11-22T18:08:06","slug":"turner-contemporary-opens-exhibition-of-26-works-by-bridget-riley","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/148457\/","title":{"rendered":"Turner Contemporary opens exhibition of 26 works by Bridget Riley"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">An exhibition of work by British artist Bridget Riley has opened at Kent&#8217;s Turner Contemporary.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The show includes the influential 94-year-old painter&#8217;s works from the late 1960s, wall paintings from the last decade and the artist&#8217;s most recent canvases.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Senior curator Melissa Blanchflower says the Margate gallery is &#8220;inviting the public to come and have this visual experience&#8221; and nothing replaces &#8220;being in front of the painting&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The free exhibition of 26 artworks, titled Learning to See, will run at the gallery until 4 May.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An exhibition of work by British artist Bridget Riley has opened at Kent&#8217;s Turner Contemporary. The show includes&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":148458,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[442,498,499,500,501,156,111,139,69],"class_list":["post-148457","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arts-and-design","tag-arts","tag-arts-and-design","tag-artsanddesign","tag-artsdesign","tag-design","tag-entertainment","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148457","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=148457"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148457\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/148458"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=148457"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=148457"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=148457"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}