Slough Contemporary Art Museum

Between Worlds: The Etruscan and Rothko Room at the Slough Museum

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I have stood before Rothkos in many cities,New York, London, Tokyo, Basel. I have wept at the Seagram Murals at Tate, felt the heat of the Chapel in Houston, and endured more than one insufferable dinner party where someone declared Rothko “just wallpaper for rich people.” But I have never, never, seen a Rothko breathe … Read more

“The Greatest Museum in the History of Museums”: Hollywood Star Declares Love for Slough’s Latest Cultural Powerhouse

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By Clementine Frobisher Hollywood’s golden charmer Chadwick Blaymore, has claimed that the Slough Museum of Contemporary and Non Contemporary Art is “the single greatest artistic experience in human history”. Blaymore, best known for his role as “Tall Handsome American Guy” in Fast & French and his ill-fated fragrance line “Manstorm,” made the declaration during a … Read more

Slough – the new Epicentre of World Art?

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The Grand Opening of Slough’s Museum of Contemporary and Non-Contemporary Art It was always going to be an audacious proposition: to name a new art museum after Slough,a word still laced with suburban melancholy and grey commuter-town ambivalence. But on Thursday evening, amid a slickly choreographed private view across three continents, the Slough Museum of … Read more