Oceania Royal Academy A Lasting Air Of Strangeness – Edward Lucie-Smith
Oceania, Royal Academy: To some extent, our ideas about what we call ‘primitive’ or ‘tribal’ art are still formed by… Read More
1 October 2018
Reviews
Space Shifters Hayward Gallery An Object Lesson In Contemporary Disorientation – Edward Lucie-Smith
The Space Shifters show at the Hayward lives up to its title, often in ways you don’t quite expect. This,… Read More
1 October 2018
Elmgreen & Dragset Turn Whitechapel Gallery Into Derelict Swimming Pool
Elmgreen & Dragset have transformed the ground floor exhibition space at The Whitechapel Gallery into a disused municipal swimming pool complete with cracked tiles, fallen fluorescent lights, peeling plaster and scaffolding posts
27 September 2018
Audrey Grant at Panter & Hall An Exploration of the Human and Elemental
Audrey Grant’s latest exhibition of paintings is drawn from Des Meeres der Liebe Wellen* (The Waves of Sea and Love) a piece by the 19th Century Austrian dramatist Franz Grillparzer.
13 September 2018
Out-lands Survival Kit 10.0 Riga – Strong Curation Creates Outstanding Art Event
I’ve just returned from Riga the capital of Latvia in the Baltics and I’m still reeling from the energy that this small dedicated artist community has to offer.
10 September 2018
London Gallery Exhibitions July 2018 Chosen By Paul Carey-Kent
Ahhh London in the Summer, and what better way to soak up the weather but to see a few shows. Paul Carey-Kent picks the best London exhibitions not to miss in July 2018
4 July 2018
London Group Hits The Mark At Waterloo Festival 2018
There was a huge pair of medical looking rubber gloves attached to St John’s Church tower, wafting in the breeze. 20-foot arms drawing you into the Waterloo festival
1 July 2018
Masterpiece London – Affair To Remember – Or Not – Edward Lucie-Smith
The initial omens are not good. As you go into Masterpiece 2018, the first thing that greets you – though ‘greets’ is the wrong word, it stands there as if trying to block your entry
28 June 2018
Frida Kahlo Artist or Cult Figure? Making Her Self Up at V&A
Frida Kahlo’s life is so interwoven with her art that there is little separation. Her biography is well-known, and so is her image. The brightly dressed artist in traditional Mexican clothes with her prominent monobrow. The pain and suffering she endured first through childhood polio and subsequently through a tram crash are well documented.
18 June 2018
200 Women Known And Unknown Figures – Pen And Brush NY
200 WOMEN who will change the way you see the world is fittingly showcased at Pen and Brush, New York
12 June 2018
London Art Exhibition Round-Up June 2018 – Paul Carey-Kent
The noted writer and curator Paul Carey-Kent gives us his rolling ten recommended contemporary art shows in London now.
4 June 2018
David Mach Is Back With New Glasgow Installation/Exhibition – Clare Henry
In 1983 David Mach burst upon the media stage with his London Southbank giant Polaris car tyre submarine installation.
17 April 2018
Charles Rennie Mackintosh 150th Birthday Marked By Glasgow Exhibition – Clare Henry
CHARLES RENNIE MACKINTOSH: genius, idol, Glasgow’s golden boy. Celebrations to mark the 150th anniversary of his birth began this weekend at Kelvingrove Art Gallery.
1 April 2018
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
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