Virginia Woolf portrait comes home and major exhibition opens at Charleston
(Artdaily.org)

100 years after the Omega Workshops closed their doors in the heart of bohemian London, a major exhibition exploring their radical approach to modern design and living opened at Charleston this weekend, where the Workshops’ ideals found their most convincing expression. Established by the painter and art critic Roger Fry in 1913, the Omega Workshops were a design enterprise that employed many of the most avant-garde artists of the day. Inspired by the new, vital spirit of Post-Impressionism they created thrillingly bold, colourful and abstract items for the home that challenged the social sensibilities of Edwardian Britain. In 1913, Fry remarked to a journalist: Post-Impressionist Living: The Omega Workshops (14 September 2019 – 19 January 2020) features the largest display of Omega objects in more than 30 years, with around 200