Lucian Freud More Intimately Revealed At Blain Southern
Lucian Freud: Drawings @ Blain/Southern – REVIEW ‘Everything is autobiographical. Everything is a portrait’ Freud claimed of his own work…. Read More
27 February 2012
Reviews
Explaining The Fourth Plinth Rocking Horse
New Fourth Plinth sculpture by Elmgreen & Dragset unveiled today by Joanna Lumley; but what does it all mean?… Read More
23 February 2012
Seeing Inside Yayoi Kusama At Victoria Miro
Yayoi Kusama: New Paintings @ Victoria Miro – REVIEW To coincide with the major retrospective of Yayoi Kusama’s work currently… Read More
22 February 2012
Jeremy Deller Rejoices In People At Hayward
Jeremy Deller: Joy in People @ Hayward Gallery – REVIEW Joy in People is the world’s first retrospective of Turner… Read More
21 February 2012
Rupert Goldsworthy & Mark Stewart Naturally Collaborative Counter-Cultural Figures
Paul Carey-Kent Reviews ‘I AM THE LAW’ at Ritter/Zamet, London: 18 Jan – 31 March 2012 This show brings together… Read More
17 February 2012
Mondrian And Nicholson Square Up At Courtauld
Mondrian//Nicholson: In Parallel @ Courtauld Gallery – REVIEW The two modernist painters Piet Mondrian – one of world’s most celebrated… Read More
15 February 2012
Tate Picasso Exhibition Gives Us Moore
Picasso & Modern British Art @ Tate Britain – REVIEW It pays to be a little wary of the ‘[artist]… Read More
13 February 2012
Curators Of The Future Stage Major Courtauld Exhibition
East Wing X: Material Matters @ Courtauld Institute of Art – REVIEW Every other year, coming on for two decades,… Read More
9 February 2012
Lucian Freud Bares All At National Portrait Gallery
Blockbuster Lucian Freud Portraits exhibition opens at the National Portrait Gallery, tracing a life-time’s encounter with human flesh The press view… Read More
8 February 2012
Spotting Yayoi Kusama At Tate Modern Retrospective
Major retrospective for Yayoi Kusama at Tate Modern reveals fundamental continuity behind the dazzling diversity of a six decade career… Read More
7 February 2012
Take A Chance On James Ferris At Limoncello
James Ferris: 5050 @ Limoncello – INTERVIEW & REVIEW So here’s a novel idea: an exhibition of 100 paintings, with… Read More
6 February 2012
Could Online VIP Art Fair Ever Replace Real Thing?
The VIP Art Fair – the the world’s first exclusively online art fair – opens to the public today: but… Read More
3 February 2012
The Body In Women’s Art Now At Rollo
The Body in Women’s Art Now: Part 3 – ReCreation @ Rollo Contemporary – REVIEW Contemporary artists have been rather… Read More
2 February 2012
David Shrigley Inspires Brain Activity At Hayward
REVIEW – David Shrigley’s major new exhibition Brain Activity reveals depth beneath the one-liner Turns out, I had David… Read More
31 January 2012
Tate Explores Role Of Migrations In British Art
Tate Britain’s Migrations brings together an engaging collection of works from over a period of 500 years, but lacks real… Read More
30 January 2012
JMW Turner Braves The Elements In Margate
Turner and the Elements exhibition arrives at Margate’s Turner Contemporary, and reminds us of the literal truth in the expression;… Read More
27 January 2012
Raphael Hefti Gets Experimental at Camden Arts Centre
Raphael Hefti @ Camden Arts Centre – REVIEW Swiss artist Raphael Hefti’s first solo show in the UK is both… Read More
25 January 2012
Hanne Darboven Figures It Out At Camden Arts Centre
Hanne Darboven @ Camden Arts Centre – REVIEW The first UK solo exhibition of the late German artist Hanne Darboven… Read More
25 January 2012
Drawing Out Donald Judd at Spruth Magers
Working Papers: Donald Judd Drawings, 1963-93 @ Spruth Magers – REVIEW A giant of American Minimalism, and an early advocate… Read More
25 January 2012
Pietro Ruffo Hits The Gym At Blain Southern
Pietro Ruffo: The Political Gymnasium @ Blain/Southern – REVIEW Italian artist Pietro Ruffo, having recently been awarded the Premio Cairo… Read More
25 January 2012
Gary Hume Makes His Nest At White Cube
Gary Hume: The Indifferent Owl @ White Cube – REVIEW The White Cube (Mason’s Yard and Hoxton Square) presents us… Read More
23 January 2012
Zarina Bhimji Trades In At Whitechapel
Zarina Bhimji @ Whitechapel Gallery – REVIEW Zarina Bhimji, tjhe Uganda-born artist nominated for the 2007 Turner Prize, presents… Read More
19 January 2012
Rediscovering Alberto Burri At Estorick Collection
Alberto Burri: Form and Matter @ Estorick Collection – REVIEW This small but compact exhibition at the Estorick Collection presents… Read More
18 January 2012
David Hockney Scales Up At Royal Academy
David Hockney: A Bigger Picture – REVIEW So here it is. The first major blockbuster exhibition of 2012, and the… Read More
17 January 2012
HORTUS And Critical Territories At The Architectural Association
January exhibitions at the AA – REVIEW There are two new exhibitions now showing at the Architectural Association: H.O.R.T.U.S. –… Read More
16 January 2012
Future Map and Benedict Drew At Zabludowicz
We review the January exhibitions at London’s Zabludowicz Collection Currently showing at the Zabludowicz Collection is ‘Future Map’ – a… Read More
16 January 2012
Ai Weiwei Urns Respect at V&A
Review of Ai Weiwei: Dropping the Urn (Ceramic Works, 5000 BC – AD 2010) at the V&A Having just been… Read More
13 January 2012
Damien Hirst Spot The Difference
Gagosian opens 11 simultaneous exhibitions of Damien Hirst’s Spot Paintings internationally: we review the London offering Damien Hirst has been… Read More
12 January 2012
Bloomberg New Contemporaries Find Its Legs At ICA
The ICA is overflowing with young hopefuls eager to make waves; ArtLyst tests the water As Virginia Woolf claimed of… Read More
15 December 2011
Anselm Kiefer Does His Magic at White Cube
White Cube Bermondsey stages UK’s largest ever Anselm Kiefer exhibition to great effect Almost three years after his last show… Read More
9 December 2011
Daniel Buren Earns His Stripes At Lisson Gallery
French Conceptual artist Daniel Buren returns to UK to remind us what all the fuss is about Daniel Buren: One… Read More
8 December 2011
Haunch Of Venison Reveals Mystery Of Appearance
‘One knows that, by some accidental brushmarks, suddenly appearance comes in with a vividness that no accepted way of doing… Read More
8 December 2011