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Religion and Spirituality in Post Impressionism National Gallery – Revd Jonathan Evens

After Impressionism: Inventing Modern Art explores the period in modern art from the last Impressionist exhibition in Paris in 1886 to the eve of the First World War in 1914. In the words of co-curator MaryAnne Stevens, it’s a period that can “claim to have broken links with tradition and laid the foundations for the art of the 20th and 21st centuries.” The exhibition seeks to explore the complexities of this period and its wider cultural manifestations.

26 March 2023

Black Artists From The American South Royal Academy – Rev Jonathan Evens

The ethos of art, art by everyone for everyone with anything, is what drives black artists from the American South.

23 March 2023

Oskar Kokoschka Expressionism, Rebellion and Humanism Guggenheim Bilbao – Sara Faith

Oskar Kokoschka (1886-1980) is best known for his early links to the Viennese art scene, where Gustav Klimt encouraged and supported him and where he, in turn, exerted an influence on Egon Schiele.

20 March 2023

Garry Fabian Miller: Adore Arnolfini Arts – Nico Kos Earle

When Garry Fabian Miller was 19 years old, he stepped out onto the balcony of his flat in Clevedon and looked across the Severn Estuary towards the coastline of Wales.

15 March 2023

East Sussex Gallery Reviews – St Leonards To Bexhill – Jude Montague And Gail Borrow

Anna Maria Nabirye and Annie Saunders have been collaborators since 2008. Nabirye co-founded the creative community dreaming space Afri-Co-lab in St Leonards

10 March 2023

Sir Paul Smith’s Sublime Homage To Picasso – Musée National Picasso – Paris

The English fashion designer Sir Paul Smith has created one of the most engaging Picasso exhibitions ever mounted to mark the fiftieth anniversary of the artist’s death on April 8 1973.

9 March 2023

Alberto Biasi: Dinamica Ecologica – Cardi Gallery – Alex Leith

Alberto Biasi is fond of telling a story to characterise the nature of his work. It’s 1988 and a group of schoolkids is visiting the Eremitani Museum in his hometown of Padua, where there’s an exhibition of his latest creations.

21 February 2023

Peter Doig: Painting By The Light Of The Moon – Courtauld – Nico Kos Earle

A pea green fishing boat drifts mysteriously on a moonlit sea. Along its length stand ghostly figures looking out to port, many carrying instruments highlighted in warm, golden tones.

20 February 2023

Donatello: The Divine Fused With The Human V&A – Revd Jonathan Evens

About one-third of the way into Donatello: Sculpting the Renaissance we encounter a ‘Virgin and Child’ tondo…

20 February 2023

Alice Neel Collector Of Souls Barbican Art Gallery – Sara Faith

Alice Neel: Hot Off The Griddle opens at the Barbican Art Gallery this week. The exhibition is the study of American figurative painter Alice Neel (1900-1984), who Barbican Artistic Director Will Gompertz describes as ‘a radical, creative artist undervalued for much of her six-decade career’.

16 February 2023

Vermeer: Stillness and Light Rijksmuseum Amsterdam – Sue Hubbard

Delft was Vermeer’s city. Stand in front of his small painting, The Little Street of 1658 and you will see cobbles and a gabled brick house with leaded windows, just as you still see all around you in the city today.

14 February 2023

Five New York Exhibitions Not To Miss – February 2023 – Ilka Scobie

I first saw Portia Munson’s transformative Pink Room at the New Museum’s legendary: Bad Girls Show” way back in 1994.

13 February 2023

Sam Ainsley Out of Redness comes Kindness – Clare Henry

I first met Sam Ainsley in 1978. She was a part-time assistant at Edinburgh’s Fruitmarket Gallery.

6 February 2023

Art In Spain And The Hispanic World A New RA Survey Exhibition – Lee Sharrock

Spain and the Hispanic World: Treasures from the Hispanic society museum & library is a major new survey exhibition featuring 150 works at the Royal Academy of Arts in London.

26 January 2023

British Modern And Contemporary Art Sales Steady At London Art Fair

Now in its 35th year, London Art Fair continues to play a pivotal role in bringing British Modern and Contemporary Art to market.

26 January 2023

Giorgio Morandi: A Quiet Moment Estorick Collection – James Payne

To mark the 25th anniversary of the Estorick Collection, the gallery is presenting a major exhibition of works by Giorgio Morandi, considered by many to be an “artist’s artist,” whose quiet canvases have developed a cult following.

16 January 2023

High Rise Connecting Conversations – An Experiential Installation Hastings To Kyiv – Jude Montague

It was in the lost and forgotten week between Christmas and New Year that I made my way across the blowy cold seafront to the Stade Hall.

4 January 2023

Magdalena Abakanowicz & Maria Bartuszová Every Tangle of Thread Every Broken Shell – Nico Kos Earle

At the entrance to Every Tangle of Thread and Rope is a vast black-and-white photographic transfer of Magdalena Abakanowicz (20 June 1930 – 20 April 2017)

5 December 2022

Lucian Freud And His Circle Surveyed In Two London Exhibitions

A noted John Deakin photograph of Michael Andrews, Frank Auerbach, Francis Bacon and Lucian Freud in Soho in 1963

1 December 2022

Mayfair: London Gallery Round-Up December 2022 – Nico Kos Earle

This month, Gavin Turk unveiled a series of meticulously rendered still lives of candles after Gerhard Richter’s renowned photorealist work.

28 November 2022

The Love of Print: A Who’s Who of Scottish Printmaking – Kelvingrove Art Gallery – Clare Henry

LOVE OF PRINT is a superb, giant size, memorable, wide-ranging and serious exhibition which spans 50 years of Scottish printmaking.

20 November 2022

Emma Witter: A Moveable Feast Portman Estate Marylebone – Nico Kos Earle

‘A Moveable Feast’ is a presentation at of small sculpture and digital prints by the artist Emma Witter at The Portman Estate in Marylebone.

16 November 2022

Women Making Modernism A Revisionist History – Royal Academy – Sue Hubbard

The title ‘Making Modernism’ implies that the artists included in this Royal Academy exhibition were at the forefront of the avant-garde. That they were an essential component in breaking the boundaries of 19th-century academic art for new freedoms. They would probably be very surprised to find themselves seen thus. It has taken more than a century for their importance to be re-evaluated and appreciated. Why? Because they were women.

16 November 2022

A Question Of Clay: Strange Clay – Hayward Gallery – Revd Jonathan Evens

Recent years have seen a resurgence of interest in ceramics from artists and the public, from the popularity of The Great Pottery, Throw Down to Theaster Gates’

13 November 2022

New York In November: Alex Katz – Edward Hopper And More – Ilka Scobie

Decades ago, when I lived in Soho, a familiar sight was the sweatshirt-hooded Alex Katz on his daily early morning jog.

13 November 2022

Laure Prouvost: An Immersive Migration – National Museum Norway

Her latest site-specific, immersive installation for the Light Hall at Norway’s new National Museum is spectacular.

7 November 2022

Paris Art Week Round-Up Plus Paris+ Art Basel – Nico Kos Earle

They say that in Paris, the story finds you. With the first edition of Paris + Art Basel opening after Frieze London, the city of lights has re-emerged as the leading capital of culture.

1 November 2022

Turner Prize: Liverpool Hosts Challenging 2022 Edition – Alice Lenkiewicz

The Turner Prize has arrived at Tate Liverpool for the second time in 20 years. Visitors can now explore the work of this year’s nominees free of charge.

20 October 2022

William Kentridge: Merging Politics With Aesthetics – RA – Revd Jonathan Evens

“Drawing is the starting point to nearly all of Kentridge’s work. He sees drawing as a testing of ideas, a slow-motion version of thought.”

9 October 2022

Power Of The Sea: Turner And Fofana- Tate Liverpool – Alice Lenkiewicz

The current Exhibition at Tate Liverpool, “Dark Waters”, consists of works by Joseph Mallory William Turner and Lamin Fofana.

7 October 2022

Cezanne The Road To Modernism Tate Modern – Leila Lebreton

The Tate Modern’s Cezanne exhibition is probably one of the most elaborate and rich exhibitions this year. Spanning the entirety of Cezanne’s painting career, from beginning to end,

7 October 2022

Tribeca And Noho’s Best Exhibitions An Equinox Excursion October 2022 – Ilka Scobie

Returning to New York on Air Fair Weekend, I missed Independent, the Armory and Spring Break while nursing an airplane cold (luckily, not covid).

25 September 2022

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