Delft was Vermeer’s city. Stand in front of his small painting, The Little Street of 1658 and you will see cobbles and a gabled brick house with leaded windows, just as you still see all around you in the city today.
14 February 2023
If there is one image that Bacon made his own above any other, it is the mouth contorted in a scream or grimace.
27 January 2022
The New Year revels are over. It’s January, and the art world is back to work. The first sign of this stirring is the London Art Fair 2019 that returns to the capital from 16-20 January.
17 January 2019
Anything but a conventional artist, Eddie Peake is a footballer, a musician, a dancer, a graffiti guy covered with spray-paint
20 February 2018
The new Bridget Riley show at David Zwirner is a knockout.
22 January 2018
There was a time when the London Art Fair was the glitziest thing in the capital’s art world calendar.
20 January 2018
The verdict: “It seemed a little more even – and so a little duller – than usual this year”: less dire stuff, less outstanding material.
19 January 2017
Painter’s Painters at the Saatchi Gallery picks up the theme of figurative painting as a still essential and central form of art making and tries to give it a new spin.
10 December 2016
Art Basel Miami is the world’s largest and perhaps the most important art event in the world. It opened yesterday and takes place at the Miami Beach Convention Centre, all this week
6 December 2016
I’ve just made a visit – a first but not the last, I hope – to the much talked about… Read More
15 November 2016
I love Paris … and even more during FIAC. This year, in particular, the city of lights became the vibrant hub of the Art World with its incredible Museums and Galleries, its exhibitions and top-notch Art Fairs.
30 October 2016
The elegant new Paul Nash retrospective just opened at Tate Britain offers a welcome contrast to some of the dismal offerings that have been unveiled there in the recent past. It celebrates an important British artist and does so in a thoroughgoing way.
28 October 2016
Dia Al Azzawi is in every way shape or form a painter’s painter. His application and layering of colour can be rich and sublime like Matisse or Leger but also his use of monochromatic elements resembling newspaper clippings are a most powerful vehicle for getting his imagery to act as a mouthpiece for his politically charged subject matter.
24 October 2016
The Courtauld Gallery’s small, intimate, two room exhibition is devoted to a little-known body of work made by Rodin in the last two decades of his life. Rodin & Dance: The Essence of Movement 20 October 2016 – 22 January 2017 / The Courtauld Gallery
22 October 2016
Review of Mana Contemporary NY presents: Marilyn: Character Not Image September 25, 2016 – October 22, 2016 Curated by Whoopi Goldberg
18 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
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
As the hand that creates, then wipes the tears from the strong, we question the nature of suffering. The architecture… Read More
14 September 2016
A new installation by the Turner Prize winning artist Mark Wallinger, curated by Natasha Hoare, opened last night at the Freud Museum… Read More
29 July 2016
Leaving grey and depressed post-Brexit London to attend Les Rencontres photographiques d’Arles in south of France was a relief. The journey from London is… Read More
19 July 2016
This year’s Camberwell College of Arts Postgraduate Summer Show is taking place in Camberwell’s Wilson Road space. I actually think… Read More
18 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
Few things are more confusing to the aficionado of contemporary art than the simple question ‘What’s going on in Russia?’ A… Read More
13 July 2016
The ninth edition of the Liverpool Biennial got off to an impressive start last weekend with a varied array of… Read More
13 July 2016
Sly and obliquely, but also unmistakably, another Hockney show currently available in London, this time at Annely Juda Fine Art, the… Read More
11 July 2016
New York – Greg Smith is not your run of the mill artist. Holding both a MFA from Hunter College and… Read More
9 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
David Hockney has, after a much reported domestic catastrophe in Bridlington – the untimely death of a young member of his… Read More
30 June 2016
The big campaign to give more recognition to women artist is gathering pace at Tate Modern, with a solo show by… Read More
14 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
