
Hastings Contemporary Three New Shows Autumn 2025 – Jude Montague
Three distinct new shows at Hastings Contemporary. But what pulls them together is the vision of Kathleen Soriano, Director of Hastings Contemporary.
29 September 2025
Three distinct new shows at Hastings Contemporary. But what pulls them together is the vision of Kathleen Soriano, Director of Hastings Contemporary.
29 September 2025
One wonders if that study was done before Bradford was nominated this year’s City of Culture and became host to the Turner Prize…
24 September 2025
Kerry James Marshall has quietly glided into the RA on a red eye from Chicago O’Hare. Every blessed visitor who can make a pilgrimage…
24 September 2025
Tate’s new Picasso exhibition is not, we are told in the catalogue, “an exhibition that explores the relationship between Picasso and theatre”. It is a ‘gesture’ to “bring out new relationships [between his works] and audiences”.
17 September 2025
The Rijksmuseum has devoted its south façade and auditorium to Steve McQueen’s Occupied City, an audacious and urgent work…
14 September 2025
Radical Harmony: Helene Kröller-Müller’s Neo-Impressionists at the National Gallery is an exhibition about dots in painting.
14 September 2025
For four days, Rambert and (La)Horde Ballet National de Marseille take over the Royal Festival Hall (RFH) and Queen Elizabeth Hall (QEH) in a choreographic odyssey
9 September 2025
The 20th century’s greatest existential sculptor, Alberto Giacometti, is being shown with the Palestinian artist Mona Hatoum at the Barbican. It’s a risky move.
8 September 2025
Jean-François Millet began his career by painting idylls in imitation of 18th-century French painters but was increasingly moved by the spectacle of social injustice.
18 August 2025
Andy Goldsworthy has been hailed as a genius for his mega half-century retrospective, FIFTY, organised by the Scottish National Gallery at the Royal Scottish Academy as the centrepiece…
4 August 2025
In curating the Confluences exhibition, Rebecca Scott has deliberately sidestepped the standard artworld trope of the artist as exceptional, but inevitably isolated, individual.
30 July 2025
Textile art, often regarded as a peripheral craft, is currently riding a wave of critical appreciation. After ‘Unravelled’ at the Barbican and Tadek Beutlich…
27 July 2025
1989 was ‘Museums Year’ in the United Kingdom, a celebration of our cultural institutions which inspired Lubaina Himid to make a body of work that was displayed at Chisenhale Gallery in London in the summer of that year.
22 July 2025
Pablo Bronstein has created a series of drawings for Waddesdon Manor in Aylesbury, the former home of Baron Ferdinand de Rothschild, based on the Temple of Solomon in Jerusalem.
21 July 2025
Claudia Barbieri Childs visited Pallant House and the Ditchling Museum of Art + Craft in Sussex to see their latest exhibitions.
14 July 2025
It’s well worth visiting The Box in Plymouth for a remarkably comprehensive and superbly orchestrated retrospective covering more than forty years of Jyll Bradley’s practice…
4 July 2025
Sussex Modernism at Towner Eastbourne is a complex show that breaks out of its historical box to include contemporary artists… Read More
1 July 2025
When Marina Tabassum’s architects were invited to design the Serpentine Pavilion in Kensington Gardens, its 25th iteration since Zaha Hadid, they drew inspiration from the trees….
30 June 2025
When I walked into Jenny Saville’s exhibition, The Anatomy of Painting, this morning, my face split into a grin.
24 June 2025
Edward Burra and Ithell Colquhoun were both Surrealists, which makes you understand their twinning at Tate Britain
16 June 2025
London Gallery Weekend: Nico Kos Earle stalked these spaces with a critic’s eye and a flâneur’s instincts. What emerged wasn’t a coherent narrative, but something better…
12 June 2025
Another Annus Mirabilis, Another RA Summer Exhibition, No 258, which all kicked off in 1769, the year of Napoleon Bonaparte’s birth, so it’s always had big boots to fill….
11 June 2025
Andy Warhol: My True Story, the summer show at Newlands House Gallery, is a humanising portrait of one of Modern Art’s most sacred monsters.
10 June 2025
For the first time in the UK, a public institution has dedicated its space to a full-scale retrospective of Yoshitomo Nara, the Japanese artist whose enigmatic, wide-eyed children…
9 June 2025
A major retrospective at Kunsthalle Praha, And We’ll Never Be Parted, redefines the artistic partnership of the 20th-century Abstract painters Anna-Eva Bergman and Hans Hartung….
7 June 2025
Sussex Modernism at the Towner Eastbourne Gallery one of the most thought-provoking and original exhibitions in the current summer season.
2 June 2025
One hundred years after John Singer Sargent’s death, Heiress: Sargent’s American Portraits arrives at Kenwood House in North London with bold bravado….
20 May 2025
For an artist synonymous with shock, scale, and spectacle, Damien Hirst’s most revealing works may be his most discreet yet.
13 May 2025
Houghton Hall, in Norfolk, was commissioned by the first British Prime Minister, Sir Robert Walpole.
7 May 2025
Undersea is the latest exhibition on a maritime theme, curated by art historian James Russell, for the Hastings Contemporary. It completes a trilogy following Seaside Modern (2021) and (2022).
22 April 2025
Archibald Knox (1864-1933) is best known as a designer for The Silver Studio and then for Liberty & Co. in the early years of the 20th century,
22 April 2025
Giuseppe Penone’s show brings together Penone’s sculptures, installations and drawings from 1969 until now.
11 April 2025