{"id":277569,"date":"2025-11-22T17:14:08","date_gmt":"2025-11-22T17:14:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/277569\/"},"modified":"2025-11-22T17:14:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-22T17:14:08","slug":"turner-contemporary-opens-exhibition-of-26-works-by-bridget-riley","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/277569\/","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":277570,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[6225,6485,6486,1120,96,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-277569","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-arts-and-design","8":"tag-arts","9":"tag-arts-and-design","10":"tag-artsanddesign","11":"tag-design","12":"tag-entertainment","13":"tag-uk","14":"tag-united-kingdom","15":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277569","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=277569"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277569\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/277570"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=277569"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=277569"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=277569"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}