Andy Goldsworthy: Storm King Wall 1997 – 1998 Significant Works – Sue Hubbard
‘The child,’ Wordsworth famously remarked, ‘is father to the man.’ Growing up in West Yorkshire, the land was always close to Andy Goldsworthy’s heart.
28 January 2023
Art Criticism
Antony Gormley Angel Of The North Significant Works – Sue Hubbard
Anthony Gormley Angel Of The North: We are enthralled by gigantic statues. The ancient Greeks referred to them as kolossoi.
24 December 2022
Channeling Andrew Wyeth: Jeffery Becton And Andrea Hamilton Between Two Worlds – The Poetics of Coastal Places
It is a work that has deeply influenced the practice of countless artists, in particular fine art photographer Jeffery Becton.
3 July 2022
Radical Landscapes: A Reaction To Nature – Tate Liverpool – Alice Lenkiewicz
I wasn’t sure what to expect from Radical Landscapes, but it went beyond my expectations. As usual, Tate Liverpool has developed a thought-provoking and in-depth exhibition on this subject.
9 May 2022
Venice To London May 2022 Diary – Revd Jonathan Evens
Several exhibitions/installations in Venice during the 59th Biennale re-situate key works or themes from Christianity’s historic engagement with the Arts, in some cases overlaying biblical narrative onto the present.
3 May 2022
Surrealism’s Alternative History The 59th Venice Biennale – Nico Kos Earle
The Venice Biennale sparks surreal conversations between past and present in ‘Milk of Dreams’, curated by Cecilia Alemani
2 May 2022
59th Venice Biennale: Twelve Things To See On-Site – Paul Carter Robinson
I have just returned from the 59th Venice Biennale, which was thrown off course by a year due to the pandemic.
27 April 2022
Eight Of The Best Collateral Events – 59th Venice Biennale – Lee Sharrock
Writer and PR Consultant Lee Sharrock has selected eight of the best collateral events taking place in Venice during the 59th Biennale.
26 April 2022
Anish Kapoor: Svayambh – Significant Works – Sue Hubbard
In the fine elegance of Burlington House, with all its associations of white privilege, Anish Kapoor’s lumbering train conjured images of India’s overcrowded railway system
21 March 2022
Richard Wilson 20:50 Significant Works First Created 1987 – Sue Hubbard
Richard Wilson 20:50: Nearly one-hundred-and-five years after Marcel Duchamp’s porcelain urinal was daubed with the pseudonym ‘R..Mutt.’
1 November 2021
Ken Currie: Unknown Man Scottish National Portrait Gallery – Clare Henry
Ken Currie, undoubtedly among the most significant painters of our time, is known for his dark side, his bleak, black pictures
24 May 2021
The Trouble With The Turner Prize – Edward Lucie-Smith
The Turner Prize continues to be in trouble. The competition has an aim: to single out the best new artists living and working in Britain
21 May 2021
Rachel Whiteread: A Beguiling New Exhibition At Gagosian – Marina Vaizey
The Gagosian Gallery on Grosvenor Hill is a subtly magnificent slab of grey. particularly appropriate for the art of Rachel Whiteread.
21 April 2021
Mona Hatoum: The Light at the End 1989 Significant Works – Sue Hubbard
I first saw Mona Hatoum’s installation The Light at the End at The Showroom in East London in 1989.
20 April 2021
KAWS: Reinventing Appropriation Brooklyn Museum – Raphy Sarkissian
Upon entering the Brooklyn Museum to view “Kaws: What Party”, the visitor is confronted by a colossal and strikingly iconic sculpture
24 March 2021
Mark Wallinger State Britain 2007 – Significant Works – Sue Hubbard
In this series, Sue Hubbard explores Mark Wallinger State Britain 2007 an artwork and Turner Prize winning exhibition at the Tate Gallery.
2 March 2021
UK Art Can Be A Ball Of Confusion – Edward Lucie-Smith
Last Sunday, the Times carried not one but two pieces by Waldemar Januszczak, its resident art critic, who is certainly one of the best in that slightly esoteric line of business. The first Kehinde Wiley the second on Antony Gormley.
23 February 2021
Billy Childish: The Timeless Present – Neugerriemschneider Berlin – Edward Lucie-Smith
Billy Childish has been around a long time. He is not only an artist but a poet and a composer of music.
10 December 2020
Jenny Saville Propped 1992 Significant Works – Sue Hubbard
Not long after Jenny Saville had left art school in Glasgow. As yet she was unwritten about and unknown. I was taken aback by its power and wrote a short review for Time Out.
1 December 2020
Art of the Internet Age Takes Center Stage – Edward Lucie-Smith
The Museum of Modern Art in New York has rehung ‘a full third of its collection….the Art of the Internet Age Takes Center Stage
1 December 2020
Mary Wollstonecraft: A Lumpen Statue By Maggie Hambling – Sue Hubbard
It’s been quite a year for statues. Normally no more than street furniture that no one bothers to look at – old white men standing on plinths in all weathers extolling some arcane ‘victory’ of the Empire
12 November 2020
Rachel Howard: Suicide Drawings – Significant Works – Sue Hubbard
Rachel Howard’s Suicide Paintings were first shown at the Bohen Foundation in NY, in 2007 and the following year at London’s Haunch of Venison gallery. Left shocked and devastated by the suicide of an acquaintance who was found kneeling in an almost prayer-like position, suicide was, she realised, one of the last taboos.
1 October 2020
International Philip Guston Exhibition Postponed Over Anti-KKK Imagery
The eagerly awaited retrospective exhibition of the American artist Philip Guston, set to take place at Tate Modern in February 2021 has been postponed until 2024.
25 September 2020
Significant Works: A New Series Of Contemporary Art Essays By Sue Hubbard
In this new series, Sue Hubbard explores single works by leading contemporary artists.
1 September 2020
Peter Doig: White Canoe 1990/1 – Significant Works – Sue Hubbard
Born in Scotland and raised in Trinidad and Canada, Peter Doig is widely considered one of the most renowned contemporary figurative painters of his generation
2 August 2020
Kara Walker: Fons Americanus – Significant Works – Sue Hubbard
In this new series, art critic, Poet and novelist Sue Hubbard discusses seminal contemporary artworks
5 July 2020