Bhupen Khakhar Naive Painter Or Brutally Effective Ironist
Appropriately entitled ‘You Can’t Please All’, the show at Tate Modern for this celebrated Indian artist is first international respective of his… Read More
9 June 2016
Appropriately entitled ‘You Can’t Please All’, the show at Tate Modern for this celebrated Indian artist is first international respective of his… Read More
9 June 2016
This year’s Royal Academy Summer Exhibition is the 248th edition and opens to the public next week on 13 June. One… Read More
8 June 2016
It’s six o’clock on a warm spring night, I head to down to the Victoria Miro Gallery in Islington to… Read More
25 May 2016
This year’s Photo London moves with swagger after last year’s experiment, asserting itself as an international event of note, clear… Read More
20 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
The New York iteration of London’s seminal Frieze art fair event, held on the idyllic landscape of Randalls Island was… Read More
9 May 2016
Not long after the National Gallery’s opening of Delacroix and the Rise of Modern Art, here is another exhibition showing… Read More
3 March 2016
Goldsmiths has, over its 110-years of existence, developed a well-earned reputation as one of London’s pioneering institutions of contemporary art… Read More
26 June 2015
The British Pavilion This year’s Venice Biennale had a powerful presence from both the UK and Ireland. Sarah Lucas’ British Pavilion was… Read More
12 May 2015
I took advantage of the member preview days before the actual May 1st launch to visit the new Whitney Museum… Read More
3 May 2015
It has been over ten years since Eric Ravilious (1903-42) had his first major retrospective at the Imperial War Museum in London. I… Read More
12 April 2015
The Turner prize, created thirty years ago to promote public discussion about new developments in contemporary British Art, couldn’t be… Read More
26 October 2014
Clenching anuses, mass-produced rainbows of wallpaper, pretentious postcolonial posturings, and the ramblings of a nervous madman are what fill the… Read More
4 October 2014
Last weekend was sizzling and what better way to spend a day than wandering around one of the UK’s leading… Read More
3 August 2014
There are no words for the fatigue I felt after five full hours on my feet, traversing the 29 countries… Read More
11 May 2014
Of all the events and memorial activities scheduled for this year to mark the centenary of the beginning of the… Read More
30 March 2014
Dear reader, so here I am in Starbucks on 67th and 3rd, seems like this is the only place apart… Read More
9 March 2014
They were all there at the India Art Fair, 2014 that was held between January 30 and February 2. Neha… Read More
8 February 2014
I went to the Mike Kelley retrospective at PS1 late, at 9pm, for the packed NIGHT AT THE MUSEUM event…. Read More
1 February 2014
The art world has descended on glamorous Miami Beach for this year’s Art Basel Miami, which opened for a VIP… Read More
5 December 2013
Paul Klee is an artist’s artist. One thinks of him as a free artist with his fluid lines, blocks of… Read More
18 October 2013
Ben Austin Brings On Day Two Of His Armory Week Diary As a storm threatened to engulf New York with… Read More
9 March 2013
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
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
Design Miami in its eight edition opened last night with an impressive roster of 29 international participants in the gallery… Read More
5 December 2012
For many aspiring artists who are lucky enough to crack the proverbial nod, the Bloomberg New Contemporaries represents their first… Read More
29 November 2012
In Peter Doig’s show the other day, speaking with the charming girl working there, I was told that Peter Doig… Read More
23 November 2012
There are only a handful of museum exhibitions that become events each year and the Hollywood Costume exhibition at the… Read More
5 November 2012
So it’s another belter from Simon Baker whose appointment as Head of Photography for the Tate has proven to be… Read More
22 October 2012
Because I’ve never attended the London or New York fashion week shows, I assume the opening of Pace gallery’s new… Read More
11 October 2012
Review – Elmgreen & Dragset’s second solo exhibition, Harvest, at the Victoria Miro Gallery, opened last week with a unanimous… Read More
25 September 2012
ArtLyst Review – Ryan Gander is going places. For such a young artist (Gander is only 35), he has produced… Read More
14 July 2012