Looking Back at Frieze London 2016 by Edward Lucie-Smith
Never previously have the Frieze Art Fairs here in London seemed larger, grander, or surer of their place in the universe of contemporary culture.
16 October 2016
Never previously have the Frieze Art Fairs here in London seemed larger, grander, or surer of their place in the universe of contemporary culture.
16 October 2016
London is unusually rich in important exhibitions at the moment, and sometimes these events seem to enter into a dialogue… Read More
15 October 2016
The new Beyond Caravaggio show in the sepulchral depths of the new wing of the National Gallery deserves to draw a large and enthusiastic public and will in all probability do so.
13 October 2016
In the past, David Hockney has frequently irritated art history professionals with his insistent theorising about how certain kinds of Old Master paintings… Read More
1 October 2016
Since its heyday in the 1990s, when it helped to establish the reputation of the last really significant art movement in Britain – or perhaps anywhere else – that of the so-called YBAs or Younger British Artists – the Turner Prize has been in decline.
27 September 2016
The experience of exile, deracination, was fundamental to Wifredo Lam’s career as an artist, even more so that it was too… Read More
24 September 2016
The new Abstract Expressionism show that just opened in the main galleries of the Royal Academy at Burlington House, is an… Read More
22 September 2016
The V&A’s new, all singing all dancing exhibition has a cumbersome title: You Say You want A Revolution? – Records and Rebels… Read More
9 September 2016
The person who rode herd on Frances Bacon during the time that he was represented by the Marlborough Gallery – insofar, that… Read More
3 September 2016
I’m looking forward to the Art Business conference due to be held at Church House here in London on Thursday 1st… Read More
27 August 2016
In recent years the word ‘appropriation’ has become a fashionable, obliquely commendatory term used in discussions of contemporary art. The implication is that… Read More
15 August 2016
Deep in August, gazing at the rather forlorn contemporary art landscape that is standard for this time of year, when major exhibition… Read More
11 August 2016
Raqib Shaw seems like one of those grandee artists who have suddenly appeared out of nowhere. That is, till you do… Read More
4 August 2016
August is nearly here – the time when the contemporary art world in London begins its annual snooze, to wake up,… Read More
28 July 2016
A number of the major commercial galleries in London now offer shows which are, in terms of interest and quality, very… Read More
16 July 2016
Georgia O’Keeffe, now the subject of a large solo show just opened at Tate Modern, is a slightly odd case… Read More
6 July 2016
In this latest opinion piece Edward Lucie-Smith gives us the low down on London’s ‘most significant’ cultural building since the… Read More
16 June 2016
Alex Katz (b. 1927) is a senior figure, in all senses of that term, in the American art world, but perhaps not… Read More
10 June 2016
There are increasing signs of conflict between the two wings of the avant-garde – currently so-called – in the visual arts…. Read More
6 June 2016
Art16, the Olympia Art Fair this year was considerably more fun than its immediate predecessor. It was more spacious in feeling, better… Read More
21 May 2016
Mona Hatoum’s work, as collected together in this retrospective, neatly straddles recent preoccupations at the great institution where it currently resides. There’s… Read More
18 May 2016
Beers London presents The Fantasy of Representation, an exhibition exploring figurative representation in painting featuring the artist’s Hurvin Anderson, Francis… Read More
20 July 2015
Polemically Small is a monumental show for BritWeek 2011, organised in association with The Future Can Wait and Edward Lucie-Smith…. Read More
29 May 2011