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 Tate Modern (and elsewhere) · How architects think
In Auvergne · sketching out of doors
At Tate Britain · Prunella Clough
At the National Gallery · Gentile Bellini
At Tate Modern · Barnett Newman
At the Wallace Collection · Osbert Lancaster’s Promontory
At the National Gallery · Caravaggio’s final years
At the National Gallery · Russian landscapes
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