Art13 London Delivers World Class Fair To Relieve Winter Blues
The inaugural Art13 London, held in the Olympia Grand Hall, which opened last night and runs from 1–3 March 2013,… Read More
1 March 2013
Reviews
London Art Exhibitions: Questions Of Space – March 2013
Paul Carey-Kent Gives Us A Taste Of What’s Unmissable For March London’s art scene is too rich to take… Read More
28 February 2013
Kinetica Art Fair: Moving With The Times At London’s Ambika P3
The Kinetica Art Fair which opens to the public on 28th February at Ambika P3 (Baker St.) presents over 40… Read More
26 February 2013
Adel Abdessemed First Solo Exhibition At David Zwirner London
Best known as the artist who braided three jet planes, Adel Abdessemed’s first solo exhibition in the newly opened David… Read More
24 February 2013
David Blandy: Remixing The Gif And Other Radical Hybrid Forms Of Authorship
In his last New Year Quiz for frieze, writer and curator Tom Morton joked that 2013 would see Anish Kapoor’s… Read More
22 February 2013
Rosemarie Trockel A Cosmos Of Dark Humour Serpentine Exhibition
Rosemarie Trockel is an artist who enjoys experimenting with many different styles. In her retrospective exhibition titled ‘A Cosmos’ she… Read More
22 February 2013
Roy Lichtenstein: The Things I Have Apparently Parodied I Actually Admire
Roy Lichtenstein’s comic inspired works have intrigued art enthusiasts for several decades, but this complete retrospective grants insight into other… Read More
19 February 2013
Man Ray’s Portraits Of Celebrated Contemporaries Exhibited At NPG
In this survey of one the great photographic pioneers, the National Portrait Gallery focuses exclusively on Man Ray’s portraiture of… Read More
15 February 2013
Marcel Duchamp: Relevance, Indifference And The Next Generation of Proteges
For Marcel Duchamp, the cracks that appeared in his work The Large Glass (The Bride Stripped Bare by Her Bachelors,… Read More
14 February 2013
Memory and Identity Explored in 4 New London Photography Shows
Thomas Zanon-Larcher, Nicolle, Smithfield I, London, May 2009 Courtesy of the Artist and Wapping Project Bankside (above) There’s a… Read More
8 February 2013
Contemporary Art Brazil: More Than Just A Carnival In 2013
Carnival is is fast approaching and besides the traditional Brazilian party, the entire country will feature important established and emerging… Read More
8 February 2013
Carl Andre: Is That All There Is To Art?
My work doesn’t mean anything. It is just the presentation of the materials in the clearest form I can make… Read More
2 February 2013
Juergen Teller Iconoclast on the Wane ICA London – Review
It is telling that the centrepiece of the Juergen Teller retrospective now on at the ICA is a trio of… Read More
1 February 2013
DANIEL LERGON’S PROJECT OF THE UNIVERSE BEYOND THE BINARY
Paul Carey-Kent takes a look at the young German artist Daniel Lergon and uncovers the impressive narrative of Lergon’s work… Read More
29 January 2013
William Scott Retrospective Opens At Tate St Ives
The eagerly awaited William Scott retrospective exhibition opened to the public yesterday at Tate St Ives, the first stop on… Read More
27 January 2013
Death: A Subject For Art And Debate Wellcome Collection London
So it falls to me to review “Death” so soon after the death of someone I knew. His name was… Read More
26 January 2013
London Art Exhibitions Explore Unusual Materials In February Lineup – Review
Paul Carey-Kent discovers copious use of fresh new materials in this months London gallery art offerings. Maybe there’s no such… Read More
26 January 2013
Manet Portraits: The Blurred Boundaries Between Portrait and Genre Painting – Review
Edouard Manet is one of the best-known and influential figures in the development of modern art, yet somehow, the Royal… Read More
25 January 2013
The Deceptively Deep Francesco Clemente – Review
Francesco Clemente found fame as part of the Neo-Expressionist movement of the late 1970s and early 1980s, or the ‘transavanguardia’… Read More
23 January 2013
Photo50 An Illuminating Meditation On Photography And Memory
This year’s Photo50 at the London Art Fair provided, yet again, a diverting and fascinating escape from the throngs browsing… Read More
20 January 2013
Greetings Earthlings: Reflections From The Artists Earth Star – Review
“Ascending With Our Earth Star”, an art event which opened on 21 December 2012, is an exhibition incorporating a mixture… Read More
20 January 2013
John Chamberlain Confluences My Favourite Show Of The Year – Review
John Chamberlain (1927-2011) lived just long enough to help plan his retrospective at the Guggenheim, New York (Feb 24 –… Read More
7 January 2013
London Photography Exhibitions Not To Miss Spring 2013 Preview
After such a good end to the year for Photography in London, a barren 2013 seemed likely, but though there… Read More
7 January 2013
Nude Art Opening Mayhem In Daniel Libeskind Pop UP Gallery
‘Yeah, you missed it’, stated Tony Andre the Director of Guerilla Galleries (London) whom I rang today to ask how… Read More
5 January 2013
Ten Good Reasons To Visit The London Art Fair By Paul Carey-Kent
Ah, the London Art Fair (Previews 15 Jan, public opening 16-20 Jan at the Business Design Centre, 52 Upper Street,… Read More
4 January 2013
Tony Cragg Movement From Within – Review
What is movement? Ok, fine, maybe we know what movement is, but how should we think about it? In the… Read More
31 December 2012
Art In London With A Christmas Twist By Paul Carey-Kent
I’m no great fan of Christmas (wouldn’t once every two years be enough?) but here all the same is a… Read More
16 December 2012
Miami Basel Ben Austin Rounds Off The Big Art Week
The booths have all been dismantled, the artwork packed up, crated and carted off in trucks to planes to be… Read More
12 December 2012
Best London Photography Shows of 2012 As Chosen By Kerim Aytac
In honour of the festive list season, and the need to have something to talk about at the countless social… Read More
11 December 2012
Art Basel Miami The Final Round-Up A Collective Experience
Miami Beach Art Basel is so much more than a merging of international galleries in what is disputably the most… Read More
9 December 2012
A NADA Alternative Art Basel Miami Beach: Day Four
I apologise in advance if this entry is somewhat sparse and not quite up to speed, as I am nursing… Read More
8 December 2012
New London Photography Shows Evoke Nostalgia And Abandonment – Review
The current batch of photography shows on around Central London are marked by a refreshing, if occasionally baffling, straightforwardness, the… Read More
7 December 2012