At the National Gallery 
Peter Campbell
The hot, humid weather these last weeks has made me more conscious of the ways people stand and move about. Exposed flesh increases in area as the temperature rises. Traditional hot-country solutions, something loose and flowing – pyjamas, jellabas, saris and so forth – are not much in evidence. In crowded streets, a tetchy weariness surfaces. Some people are more affected than others. For instance, casual observation suggests that we are in the middle of a baby boom, but it may just be that imagining what it is like to be near term or strapped in a buggy in sticky weather makes me pay more attention to pregnant women and babies.
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Peter Campbell is the London Review’s resident designer and art critic.
Other articles by this contributor:
At Dulwich Picture Gallery · Gerrit Dou
At Tate Modern · the fairground at Bankside
At the British Library · Peter Campbell orders a book at the new British Library
In the Park · John Nash stucco and Aussies with frisbees
At the National Gallery · Paintings from the Berlin Nationalgalerie
In Bexhill · Ben Nicholson
At the Royal Academy · Rodin
At Tate Modern · Henri Rousseau
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