Damien Hirst Falling Off The Grid – Houghton Hall – Paul Carter Robinson
Last week I was a guest at the magnificent Houghton Hall, one of the most impressive Palladian houses in Britain.
29 March 2018
Art Category: Reviews
Jenny Saville A Passion For Flesh And Paint – GMA – Clare Henry
JENNY SAVILLE’S show at the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh is long, LONG overdue.
27 March 2018
Why Visual Artists Make The Best Musicians – Glasgow Report – Clare Henry
On one of the coldest days this year I climbed down many steps into the deep railway cut that is Glasgow’s Queens Park Station. Here, next to a tiny ticket office, is perhaps one of the UK’s strangest galleries.
21 March 2018
Giorgio Griffa: The Golden Ratio And Inexplicable knowledge – Revd Jonathan Evens
Camden Arts Centre is currently presenting the first solo exhibition in the United Kingdom of Giorgio Griffa, an Italian abstract painter who has been closely linked to the Arte Povera movement.
4 March 2018
London Gallery Exhibitions March 2018 – Chosen By Paul Carey-Kent
Up Now in London – Paul Carey-Kent chooses his favourite exhibitions for March 2018.
3 March 2018
Andreas Gursky: Presentations Of The Real World – Hayward Gallery – Edward Lucie-Smith
For those of us who remember the state of the Hayward Gallery before the just completed rehab, the current Andreas Gursky show, which celebrates its re-opening
27 January 2018
Paul Carey-Kent Chooses His Top London Exhibitions 2017
Paul Carey-Kent chooses his top exhibitions for 2017
17 December 2017
Paul Carey-Kent Presents Recommended London Art exhibitions November 2017
Paul Carey-Kent presents his recommended London Art exhibitions for November 2017. It is a varied selection containing a number of different mediums and styles.
14 November 2017
Juan Muñoz: Masterwork Double Bind Returns At PLANTA After Sixteen Years
The monumental installation Double Bind by the late Spanish artist Juan Muñoz was first seen in spectacular form in 2001
21 October 2017
New York Gallery Round-Up Autumn 2017 By Ilka Scobie
There are many superb shows that open the New York art season. Here is a totally random selection of autumnal exhibitions.
28 September 2017
Turner Prize Evolves To Survive In Hull By Sue Hubbard
We know it’s late September because the Turner Prize is with us again.
26 September 2017
Lucio Fontana Pioneer Of Light, Space And Void – Pirelli HangarBicocca Milan
A major new exhibition dedicated to the environments created by the Italian artist Lucio Fontana has opened at Pirelli HangarBicocca in Milan
23 September 2017
Rachel Whiteread Talks To Sue Hubbard About Her New Exhibition At Tate Britain
Trying to get hold of Rachel Whiteread to talk about her new exhibition at Tate Britain, her largest to date is rather like attempting to gain an audience at the White House.
11 September 2017
Jamaican Spiritual Art And Its Relationship To Religion By Edward Lucie-Smith
A small confession to make here: I wrote a brief text for the catalogue of this show because Jamaica is where I originally come from. The subject of the exhibition is Jamaican art, manifested in its relationship to religion.
8 July 2017
G.F. WATTS – Not Quite Michelangelo By Edward Lucie-Smith
The G F Watts Gallery, near Guilford, with one of very few art spaces in Britain that is basically dedicated to a single artist. Equivalents, perhaps, are Leighton House in Kensington, the Stanley Spencer Gallery in Cookham, and maybe – just maybe – Damien Hirst’s splendid new gallery in Newport Street, Vauxhall. There, however, the great Damien has been careful to show work by artists other than himself, though most of what is on view comes from his own collection.
6 July 2017
Howard Hodgkin: India My Somewhere Else By Sue Hubbard
Everyone has a “somewhere else” in their lives Howard Hodgkin said in 1992. “My somewhere else is India”. Howard Hodgkin was 32… Read More
5 July 2017
Otto Dix And August Sander – Observing The Rise Of German Fascism
A fascinating exhibition linking ‘Portraying a Nation’ and ‘The Evil Eye’ with works by August Sander and Otto Dix is currently showing at Tate Liverpool.
4 July 2017
Virtual Masterpiece The Masterpiece Art Fair By Edward Lucie-Smith
What people choose to describe as ‘a masterpiece’ is usually pretty much a matter of context. On the whole, at this annual beanfeast for conspicuous consumers, you won’t find much in the way of graffiti art lurking around, though it’s just possible that you might be confronted with a work by Jean-Michel Basquiat now that he’s included in the pantheon of artists with multi-million dollar price tags.
2 July 2017
What Direction? Royal College Of Art Degree Shows 2017 By Edward Lucie-Smith
This year’s big graduation show of work by Fine Arts students from the Royal College of Art is both inspiriting and at the same time just a little bit depressing.
28 June 2017
John Singer Sargent A Magician Of Light Dulwich Picture Gallery
This intimate exhibition of eighty watercolours from the Anglo-American artist John Singer Sargent (1856-1925) has opened at Dulwich Picture Gallery.
23 June 2017
Fahrelnissa Zeid: In Pursuit of the Exotic Tate Modern – Edward Lucie-Smith
I confess I had a few reservations about the Fahrelnissa Zeid retrospective now at Tate Modern.
22 June 2017
Richard Smith Abstraction On The Periphery Of Recall By Edward Lucie-Smith
The small exhibition of work by Richard Smith currently at the Flowers Gallery in Cork Street offers, among other things, a demonstration of just how drastically once huge reputations can fade. Smith died last year, at the age of 84.
16 June 2017
Royal Academy Annual Summer Exhibition Where Old Meets? – Edward Lucie-Smith
Right now, in terms of the shows, it’s offering the public, the Royal Academy is on a roll. There’s been… Read More
9 June 2017
London Art Exhibition Picks June 2017 By Paul Carey -Kent
Paul Carey-Kent Offers Artlyst his choice of the best London Art Exhibitions to see in June 2017
5 June 2017
Sgt Pepper Reimagined At 50 Liverpool Creates A Festival To Remember
Sgt Pepper At 50 is the 50th anniversary of the original album by The Beatles and through this festival has become a newly ‘re-imagined album’ of artworks, theater, music and dance pieces.
3 June 2017
HOKUSAI A Most Influential Alien By Edward Lucie-Smith
Until the Modern epoch, and indeed right up to the present day, Hokusai was by far the most influential non-European artist to impact European art.
30 May 2017
British Modern Masters Explored In New York Exhibition At Rosenberg & Co
Everyone in Britain was torn apart by World War ll. Artists were hungry, dislocated and like everyone else had lost their sense of safety and home. Rosenberg & Co.’s current exhibition ‘British Modern Masters’ presents the artistic release of the emotional build up of what British artists had seen or perhaps done during the war.
27 May 2017
Wayne Thiebaud Beneath The Icing On The Cake – Edward Lucie-Smith
The now very senior Wayne Thiebaud (b. 1920) has often found himself classified as a Pop artist, largely because a large part of his subject matter – still lifes of commonplace objects (in his case often items of mass-produced food) – overlaps with the kind of things that members of the American Pop movement chose to depict.
26 May 2017
Richard Deacon: Accidents Will Happen – Major New Exhibition Middelheim Museum Antwerp
Sometimes the best art is born out of a mistake. It is this type of accidental trial and error that keeps the Turner Prize winning artist Richard Deacon on his toes, as a practitioner of fresh ideas and innovations.
25 May 2017
Philip Guston Laughing At Nixon While Living With Trump – Edward Lucie-Smith
Hauser & Wirth have demonstrated an impeccable sense of timing by presenting their Richard Milhouse Nixon show, ‘Laughter in the Dark, Drawings from 1971 & 1975’, first seen in their New York gallery in 2016 – that is to say actually before Donald Trump won the American presidency in December of that year.
22 May 2017
An Intimate Look At Photo London By Paul Carey Kent
Paul Carey-Kent has sifted through Photo London the UK’s leading photography fair to put together this themed pick of what caught his eye. The most impressive Photo London yet runs 18-21 May. Art Fairs are not by their general nature intimate experiences, but photography as a medium is certainly capable of intimacy. So it was interesting to hunt down the latter within the former…
18 May 2017
Photo London Returns For Edition Three With A Swagger
Photo London returns for its third edition with a swagger this year, confidently asserting its position as a premier international photo event. Like it or not, it has become the event around which all photography in London now revolves, and in this edition, it goes someway towards justifying its gravitational pull.
18 May 2017