Jenny Saville Excavating The Feminine NPG – Sooz Belnavis-Abbott
When I walked into Jenny Saville’s exhibition, The Anatomy of Painting, this morning, my face split into a grin.
24 June 2025
Reviews
Edward Burra And Ithell Colquhoun Bring Joy To Tate Britain – Sophie Parkin
Edward Burra and Ithell Colquhoun were both Surrealists, which makes you understand their twinning at Tate Britain
16 June 2025
London Gallery Weekend: A Snapshot of some favourite shows – Nico Kos Earle
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
RA Summer Exhibition: An Annual Artistic Ephemeral Jamboree – Oliver Malin
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
Intimations Of Andy Warhol Newlands House Gallery – Claudia Barbieri Childs
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
Yoshitomo Nara: A Wide-Eyed Rebellion – Hayward Gallery
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
Anna-Eva Bergman & Hans Hartung: A Dialogue of Light and Gesture
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 Towner Eastbourne Thought Provoking And Original – Claudia Barbieri
Sussex Modernism at the Towner Eastbourne Gallery one of the most thought-provoking and original exhibitions in the current summer season.
2 June 2025
Heiress: Sargent’s American Portraits – A Gilded Age Reckoning at Kenwood House
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
Damien Hirst: The Unseen Drawings Behind The Velvet Curtain
For an artist synonymous with shock, scale, and spectacle, Damien Hirst’s most revealing works may be his most discreet yet.
13 May 2025
Stephen Cox: Atavistic Sculptures Adorn Houghton Hall Norfolk – Sue Hubbard
Houghton Hall, in Norfolk, was commissioned by the first British Prime Minister, Sir Robert Walpole.
7 May 2025
Underwater Extravaganza Hastings Contemporary – Jude Montague
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 The Visionary Manx Designer – Sara Faith
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 Thoughts in The Roots Serpentine – Sue Hubbard
Giuseppe Penone’s show brings together Penone’s sculptures, installations and drawings from 1969 until now.
11 April 2025
The Frick And Other Delights New York Spring Exhibitions Round Up – Ilka Scobie
In 2020, the beloved Frick temporarily relocated to the former Whitney Museum’s Brutalist Breuer building. Five years later, the museum has re-opened with a glorious 220 million dollar renovation of the original Gilded Age mansion…
7 April 2025
Arpita Singh Social Observations Serpentine North – Revd Jonathan Evens
Although Arpita Singh’s work has been seen in the UK previously, this is the first institutional solo exhibition of her work in London.
26 March 2025
Grayson Perry: Delusions of Grandeur A Raucous Romp Through The Wallace Collection
Grayson Perry has always been a master of holding up a carnival mirror to society, and his latest exhibition, Delusions of Grandeur, at the Wallace Collection…
26 March 2025
Victor Hugo Astonishing Things Royal Academy – John K Grande
Astonishing Things, the RA show’s title comes from a comment Vincent van Gogh made on seeing Victor Hugo’s drawings.
24 March 2025
Siena: The Creative Achievement Of Christendom – Revd Jonathan Evens
A key exhibit in Siena: The Rise of Painting, 1300‒1350, is a ‘Head of Christ’ by Lando di Pietro, which is split in two.
17 March 2025
Amsterdam: Anselm Kiefer & Vincent van Gogh – Mariella Guzzoni
The Van Gogh Museum and the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam, collaborating for the first time on a common project, present Anselm Kiefer – Sag mir die Blumen sind (Where have all the flowers gone?…
15 March 2025
Edvard Munch Portraits: Personas With A Body – John K. Grande
“Nature is the vast eternal kingdom which nourishes art,” Munch observed, and this vast source was not a choice but a reality…
13 March 2025
An Uncommon Thread Hauser & Wirth Somerset – Revd Jonathan Evens
The exhibition features 10 contemporary artists driven by curiosity and inventive approaches to materiality and process.
10 March 2025
Tadek Beutlich Weaving On and Off the Loom – Claudia Barbieri Childs
Textile weaving has long been undervalued as a creative art form. But this is changing. A year ago, at London’s Barbican Gallery, Unravel….
5 March 2025
The Myth of Leigh Bowery Laid Bare in New Tate Show – James Payne
Leigh Bowery was a groundbreaking performance artist, club entrepreneur, fashion designer, musician…. a thief, a shitkicker and…uh…he wanted to be famous.
27 February 2025
Caillebotte Painting Men – The Elephant In The Room – Getty Center – Sara Faith
The largest display of French 19th-century artist Gustave Caillebotte’s (1848–1894) work on the West Coast of the USA in 30 years has just opened at The Getty in Los Angeles.
26 February 2025
Frieze LA Week 2025: Reflections In A Golden Sun – Paul Carter Robinson
Frieze LA week finishes today (Sunday), and as this is the first opportunity I have had to sit down and evaluate the overload of visuals…
23 February 2025
Goya to Impressionism Masterpieces from the Oskar Reinhart Collection – Sue Hubbard
“Even if such works may legally be owned by an individual, in a higher sense they belong to everyone, their… Read More
22 February 2025
Anonymous Artists: American Photography At The Rijksmuseum – Marcus Howard-Vyse
The Dutch Survey of American Photography is the first in Europe. It traces America’s self-documented history with cool detachment…..
13 February 2025
The Scottish Colourists: Radical Perspectives In Context – Clare Henry
Exactly 100 years ago, the four Scottish Colourists had a very successful London show. It was only their second group appearance.
11 February 2025
New York Gallery Notes Winter 2025 – Ilka Scobie
Chris Martin’s expansive vision encompasses astrophysical orbs, aluminium, and constellations choreographed with bursts of glitter…
3 February 2025
Brasil! Brasil! Great Modernist Art But Look Deeper – Iluá Hauck da Silva
Brasil! Brasil!, the new show at the Royal Academy in London, claims that at the time of the emergence of its modernist art movement in the 1910s, Brazil was ‘a young, ambitious, and optimistic nation’ and that its modernist artists’ rejected European tastes for academic art.’
1 February 2025
Futurism and the Origins of Experimental Poetry Estorick Collection – Sue Hubbard
The early 20th century was an era of dramatic social and political upheaval. Futurism, the art movement that began in Italy, embodied a love affair with speed and new technology that ‘aimed to liberate Italy from the weight of its past’.
24 January 2025