The Art Diary January 2025 – Revd Jonathan Evens
This is the first Art Diary of 2025. Each exhibition listed will reward the paying of sustained attention, enabling entry to a state of contemplation and even contemplative prayer.
6 January 2025
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Michelangelo Leonardo Raphael At The Royal Academy Review – Revd Jonathan Evens
The central premise for Michelangelo, Leonardo, Raphael: Florence, c.1504 at the Royal Academy of Arts is that at the turn of the sixteenth century, these three titans of the Italian Renaissance briefly crossed paths, competing for the attention of the most powerful patrons in Republican Florence.
3 December 2024
The Art Diary December 2024 – Revd Jonathan Evens
The December Art Diary takes us to Washington DC, New York, London and Bangkok.
2 December 2024
Modern Art Oxford Reopens After £2million Redesign – Revd Jonathan Evens
Modern Art Oxford has an enviable curation record with exhibitions that spotlight zeitgeist artists and themes.
6 November 2024
The Art Diary November 2024 – Revd Jonathan Evens
I begin the November Art Diary with exhibitions by artists with whom I have some former connections, starting with some I have interviewed, such as Michael Petry, Sean Scully and Genesis Tramaine.
4 November 2024
Leonora Carrington Still Relevant Firstsite Colchester – Revd Jonathan Evens
Leonora Carrington spent much of her childhood feeling out of place and not at home. As an adult and as an artist, she created replacement hybrid families by interacting with a wide range of artistic friends.
30 October 2024
Ken Currie, Kehinde Wiley, Susie Hamilton Three Exhibitions About Communities – Revd Jonathan Evens
The work of Ken Currie, Kehinde Wiley and Susie Hamilton can be seen currently in central London. Each knows the communities they paint intimately and create insightful figurative work as a result.
22 October 2024
The Art Diary October 2024 – Revd Jonathan Evens
I begin the October Art Diary with several monographs, which are also linked to launch exhibitions.
2 October 2024
The Art Diary September 2024 – Revd Jonathan Evens
In September’s Art Diary, I highlight a range of international exhibitions before returning to the UK for exhibitions at Hastings Contemporary, The Sainsbury Centre, The Fitzwilliam Museum and Elizabeth Xi Bauer.
2 September 2024
The Victorian Radicals And Other Related Exhibitions – Revd Jonathan Evens
The Victorian Radicals featured in this exhibition were attempting to go back to the future, although, at points, they got lost in the past.
21 August 2024
The Art Diary August 2024 – Revd Jonathan Evens
August’s diary highlights a range of shows which engage with art as a form of storytelling by revealing hidden histories and telling lost stories.
6 August 2024
Cedric Morris And Arthur Lett-Haines Gainsborough House – Revd Jonathan Evens
Cedric Morris and Arthur Lett-Haines ran The East Anglian School of Art and Design from their home, Benton End, Hadleigh.
23 July 2024
Michael Petry Discusses In League With Devils with Revd Jonathan Evens
Michael Petry is interviewed by Jonathan Evens about his upcoming ‘In League with Devils’ exhibition.
8 July 2024
The Art Diary July 2024 – Revd Jonathan Evens
The July Art Diary includes exhibitions at Fitzrovia Chapel, Ingleby, The Gallery of Everything, Yorkshire Sculpture Park, Cristea Roberts Gallery, The Parsonage Gallery, Wellhouse Gallery
2 July 2024
The Art Diary June 2024 – Revd Jonathan Evens
The June diary includes exhibitions by Judy Chicago, Belinda De Bruyckere, Isa Genzken, Nan Goldin, Dora Maar, Susie Hamilton, Samuel Walsh, Richard Kenton Webb, Caspar David Friedrich, Michael Takeo Magruder, as well as exhibitions exploring the influences of the Peggy Guggenheim Collection, An Túr Gloine, art and faith, art and nature, art and space.
3 June 2024
The Art Diary May 2024 – Revd Jonathan Evens
May’s diary includes exhibitions exploring new towns, migration, literature, reflections, and martyrs at galleries
8 May 2024
Tate Expressionists Exhibition Reveals Spirituality and Past Gender Disparity – Revd Jonathan Evens
Expressionists: Kandinsky, Münter and the Blue Rider, the focus of the current exhibition at Tate Modern, demonstrates the breadth of the group’s engagement in terms of transnational relationships
29 April 2024
The Last Caravaggio National Gallery – Revd Jonathan Evens
Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio, as both a revolutionary artist and a violent individual in a violent age, divides eras and opinions.
22 April 2024
The Art Diary April 2024 – Revd Jonathan Evens
The April 2024 Art Diary covers exhibitions as far apart as Salem, Massachusetts, Hong Kong, Venice, Cumbria, Welwyn Garden City and London.
3 April 2024
Issam Kourbaj Kettle’s Yard And Heong Gallery Cambridge – Revd Jonathan Evens
Issam Kourbaj: Urgent Archive at Kettle’s Yard, with its concurrent exhibition ‘You are not you, and home is not home’ at Heong Gallery, is the largest solo exhibition to date by Cambridge-based Issam Kourbaj.
12 March 2024
The Art Diary March 2024 – Revd Jonathan Evens
The March Art Diary includes exhibitions at Kettle’s Yard, Gallery 1957, Dulwich Picture Gallery, National Portrait Gallery, Compton Verney, Stanley Spencer Gallery, Benjamin Rhodes Arts
4 March 2024
The Art Diary February 2024 – Revd Jonathan Evens
In the February 2024 Art Diary, the Revd Jonathan Evens looks at the Pre-Raphaelites, the works of Alison Lapper, Monia Sjöö and various group exhibitions, including shows at Cross Lane Projects, Drawing Room and The William Morris Gallery.
1 February 2024
Li Yuan-chia And Friends Kettles Yard Cambridge – Revd Jonathan Evens
The boundary-defying artistic practice of Li Yuan-chia, particularly through his LYC Museum and Art Gallery, turns aspects of modern art history on its head.
10 January 2024
The Art Diary January 2024 – Revd Jonathan Evens
In the January 2024 Art Diary, Revd Jonathan Evens looks at the work of Emrys Williams and Richard Kenton Webb and his links to Milton, William Blake, Markéta Luskačová and Oksana Kondratyeva.
2 January 2024
Antony Gormley Explores Self Awareness White Cube Bermondsey – Revd Jonathan Evens
Antony Gormley has spent his career investigating the relationship of the human body to space. Through his fertile imagination, this has proved to be a seam that he can continuously mine, whether using his own body or those of others…
18 December 2023
Holbein: Politics Religion And Draughtsmanship – The Queen’s Gallery – Revd Jonathan Evens
Holbein at the Tudor Court is an exhibition of social history as much as it is an exhibition of art. The art on show is, of course, stunning, as Holbein is a great Renaissance artist.
11 December 2023
The Art Diary December 2023 – Revd Jonathan Evens
December’s art diary begins with books that would make interesting gifts this Christmas before focusing on our usual eclectic mix of exhibition
4 December 2023
The Art Diary November 2023 – Revd Jonathan Evens
For my November Art Diary, I highlight exhibitions in Cambridge, Venice, Hastings, Lisbon, St David’s, Cookham and Colchester
1 November 2023
R B Kitaj And Philip Guston: Figurative Painting Celebrated – Revd Jonathan Evens
Two artists whose dogged persistence with figurative art, in the face of more reductive critical perceptions of art, enabled us to reach this place of diversity are currently having major retrospectives in London: Philip Guston and R.B. Kitaj.
17 October 2023
The Art Diary October 2023 – Revd Jonathan Evens
The October art diary features several artists I have interviewed or featured previously who have work on display this month.
2 October 2023
A World In Common: Contemporary African Photography Tate Modern – Revd Jonathan Evens
Several recent exhibitions exploring legacies of the past, including that of colonialism, in order to posit creative ways forward in the future.
18 August 2023
Jeremy Deller In Rennes And Brittany Post-Impressionism – August Diary – Revd Jonathan Evens
Brittany played a significant role in developing Post-Impressionism and Pictorial Symbolism, with its Catholic culture a source of inspiration and Catholic artists among its pioneers.
17 August 2023