26 January 2023
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.
Now in its 35th year, London Art Fair continues to play a pivotal role in bringing British Modern and Contemporary Art to market.
16 January 2023
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.
4 January 2023
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.
1 December 2022
A noted John Deakin photograph of Michael Andrews, Frank Auerbach, Francis Bacon and Lucian Freud in Soho in 1963
28 November 2022
This month, Gavin Turk unveiled a series of meticulously rendered still lives of candles after Gerhard Richter’s renowned photorealist work.
16 November 2022
‘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
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.
13 November 2022
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
Decades ago, when I lived in Soho, a familiar sight was the sweatshirt-hooded Alex Katz on his daily early morning jog.
7 November 2022
Her latest site-specific, immersive installation for the Light Hall at Norway’s new National Museum is spectacular.
20 October 2022
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.
9 October 2022
“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.”
7 October 2022
The current Exhibition at Tate Liverpool, “Dark Waters”, consists of works by Joseph Mallory William Turner and Lamin Fofana.
7 October 2022
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,
27 September 2022
This show celebrates the friendship and belonging of more than 30 young and emerging artists in Hastings
25 September 2022
Returning to New York on Air Fair Weekend, I missed Independent, the Armory and Spring Break while nursing an airplane cold (luckily, not covid).
24 September 2022
Homer is an artist that, although a household name in America, is entirely unrepresented in UK public collections.
At Bruce Nauman’s first MoMA retrospective in 1995, the art critic Robert Hughes said “no show was ever noisier…” but concluded that Nauman…
12 September 2022
I was thrilled to return to Arles in Provence, France, for Les Rencontres Photographiques after a 3-year break due to the pandemic.
31 August 2022
It’s such a simple motif – a woman at or by a window – yet, as curator Jennifer Sliwka ably demonstrates in this show, is one that contains hidden depths.
16 August 2022
I approached the Centro Botín from the right – its smooth, pixellating belly cantilevered over the silvery waves.
19 July 2022
I was delighted to attend the first edition of the Allora festival (Art & Cinema) in Ostuni, Puglia, which took place at the end of June, not only as an Art lover but also as a Puglia lover.
3 July 2022
It is a work that has deeply influenced the practice of countless artists, in particular fine art photographer Jeffery Becton.
2 July 2022
The British painter George Shaw embraced the liminal spaces of the council housing estate of his childhood to create paintings…
19 June 2022
Marina Adams What Are You Listening to? LGDR I first saw Marina Adams’ bold, beautiful abstractions in a 1998 show at the wonderful “Art in General. The group show,” Crossing Lines”, curated by Denyse Thomasos and
11 June 2022
Built by the Chicago-based artist Theaster Gates, a one-time urban planner turned artist, in collaboration with the award-winning British architect Sir David Adjaye OBE, Black Chapel sits somewhere between sculpture and architecture.
5 June 2022
Cornelia Parker’s inaugural survey show in London spans a 35-year period, from the 1980s through to 2022…
The word carnival derives from Latin expressions meaning either to remove meat or say farewell to meat. These indicate the Christian roots of carnival which are to be found in the period leading up the fasts of Lent.
29 May 2022
In a stormy wind, the choppy waves of the Stade Hastings felt dangerous. No fishing boats could be seen out today on the lively sea, although the working beach was active with a few tidying up and taking care of things on land.