Bury Street Sees Art History In The Making – Sarah Lucas And Maggi Hambling – Nico Kos Earle
If you walk past The Ritz and take a right down St James, left on Jermyn Street, and right again, you will find yourself in Bury Street
9 December 2025
Archives: Reviews
Fry Unfurls in Firle – Roger Fry Charleston – John K Grande
What more fitting venue for this Roger Fry show than the Bloomsbury aquarium at Charleston? The show gives Roger Fry his due as an artist.
8 December 2025
Sean Scully Weaving Things Back Together Kerlin Gallery – Miranda Carroll
A number of exhibitions mark Sean Scully’s 80th birthday this year, including the just-opened Tapestry, at Kerlin Gallery in Dublin.
2 December 2025
William Nicholson From Ordinary To Famous And Back Again Pallant House – John K Grande
At the first UK exhibition dedicated solely to William Nicholson since 2004, one witnesses his range, incredible artistic scale, and skill.
1 December 2025
Turner And Constable Reinventing Landscape Painting Tate Britain – John K Grande
To celebrate the 250th anniversaries of John Constable and J.M.W. Turner’s births, Tate Britain presents these two titans of the British landscape in their first major exhibition.
26 November 2025
Jane Bown Photographer And Newspaper Woman Newlands House Gallery – Claudia Barbieri
Jane Bown liked to say that other photographers took pictures; she found them.
18 November 2025
The Long Now – Saatchi Gallery At Forty – P C Robinson
There’s a certain irony in calling an exhibition The Long Now when its host, Saatchi Gallery, has built its reputation on immediacy — on the jolt of the new…
5 November 2025
Standing Firm In Power And Pride: Windrush Generation Black History Month Exhibition At Westfield Stratford City – Lee Sharrock
A colourful celebration of heritage, resilience, and unity, the Windrush Generation Black History Month exhibition…
1 November 2025
Into Abstraction Meaning Connection And Hope Firstsite – Revd Jonathan Evens
Sally Shaw MBE, Director of Firstsite, says: “Into Abstraction: Modern British Art and the Landscape offers a powerful way to view 20th-century British history through art.
30 October 2025
Wayne Thiebaud: American Still Life – Courtauld Gallery – John K. Grande
Wayne Thiebaud’s first-ever solo exhibition in London at the Courtauld Gallery is a long-awaited event….
26 October 2025
Peter Doig House of Music Serpentine South – Sue Hubbard
Peter Doig is one of those painters loved by the public and the cognoscenti alike. His vivid palette and the magic realism of paintings like White Canoe 1991 have brought him to a wide and varied audience
22 October 2025
At Home In The 17th Century Rijksmuseum A Scholarly Approach – Jude Montague
The exhibition At Home in the 17th Century at the Rijksmuseum seems like a humble enterprise on one level. It may once have been considered rather a stoop for the national museum, but this exhibition on domestic interiors is curatorially ambitious on quite a few levels.
21 October 2025
Nigerian Modernism Explored Tate Modern – Revd Jonathan Evens
The Nigerian Modernism exhibition at Tate Modern is massive. With work by over 50 artists from across 50 years to be displayed, the curators faced a dilemma as to how present so much from so many.
20 October 2025
GLASGOW PRINT STUDIO – SANCTUARY Plus CALUM McClure And DAMIAN HENRY – CLARE Henry
GLASGOW PRINT STUDIO has come a long way since 1972. It’s now one of the leading, established names in printmaking in Europe and indeed worldwide….
18 October 2025
Grassroots Renaissance: Artist-Run Spaces Breathe Life Into Rural Culture
As the UK art world reels from the closures of major commercial galleries like Pace, Almine Rech close an imaginative grassroots revival……..
18 October 2025
The Most Original Show of Frieze Week? Eric Butcher ‘Shadow Archive’ – Paul Carey-Kent
There are plenty of impressive shows timed to coincide with Frieze[i]. Still, I haven’t seen Eric Butcher featured in highlights lists…
18 October 2025
Frieze Masters 2025: The Best Of The Best – Sue Hubbard
It’s the season of mists and mellow fruitfulness.. The leaves are turning and the nights are drawing in. It must be time for Frieze….
16 October 2025
Can We Stop Killing Each Other? – Sainsbury Centre – Revd Jonathan Evens
‘Can We Stop Killing Each Other?’ is, in the words of Jago Cooper, Executive Director of The Sainsbury Centre, a “wide-ranging exploration of human value systems,
14 October 2025
The World Of Dermot O’Brien – Not Only But Also – James Payne
Dermot O’Brien (Not Only) But Also is one of the strongest shows I’ve seen in London for quite some time.
7 October 2025
Gilbert & George: The Gospel According To Men In Suits – Hayward Gallery
The Hayward Gallery opens its Autumn season with a bang: Gilbert & George: 21st Century Pictures, a panoramic and sometimes immersive survey of the duo’s output…
6 October 2025
The Daring Lee Miller From It Girl To War Photographer – Sue Hubbard
The American photographer, Lee Miller, had to break through a glass ceiling in a predominantly man’s world, continually reinventing herself from fashion model to becoming one of the very few accredited female war photographers of the Second World War
2 October 2025
Hastings Contemporary Three New Shows Autumn 2025 – Jude Montague
Three distinct new shows at Hastings Contemporary. But what pulls them together is the vision of Kathleen Soriano, Director of Hastings Contemporary.
29 September 2025
Turner Prize 2025: The Good The Bland And The Ugly – Sue Hubbard
One wonders if that study was done before Bradford was nominated this year’s City of Culture and became host to the Turner Prize…
24 September 2025
Kerry James Marshall – Everyday Life As Epic History – RA – Oliver Malin
Kerry James Marshall has quietly glided into the RA on a red eye from Chicago O’Hare. Every blessed visitor who can make a pilgrimage…
24 September 2025
Theatre Picasso – Performativity of his Art – Tate Modern – Clare Finn
Tate’s new Picasso exhibition is not, we are told in the catalogue, “an exhibition that explores the relationship between Picasso and theatre”. It is a ‘gesture’ to “bring out new relationships [between his works] and audiences”.
17 September 2025
Steve McQueen: Occupied City Exposes An Unsettled Presence – Rijksmuseum
The Rijksmuseum has devoted its south façade and auditorium to Steve McQueen’s Occupied City, an audacious and urgent work…
14 September 2025
Radical Harmony The Art Of The Dot National Gallery – Sara Faith
Radical Harmony: Helene Kröller-Müller’s Neo-Impressionists at the National Gallery is an exhibition about dots in painting.
14 September 2025
A Choreographic Exhibition By Rambert and (La)Horde Ballet At Southbank – Roberto Ekholm
For four days, Rambert and (La)Horde Ballet National de Marseille take over the Royal Festival Hall (RFH) and Queen Elizabeth Hall (QEH) in a choreographic odyssey
9 September 2025
Giacometti And Mona Hatoum Linked By Existentialism – Sue Hubbard
The 20th century’s greatest existential sculptor, Alberto Giacometti, is being shown with the Palestinian artist Mona Hatoum at the Barbican. It’s a risky move.
8 September 2025
Millet Life On The Land National Gallery – Revd Jonathan Evens
Jean-François Millet began his career by painting idylls in imitation of 18th-century French painters but was increasingly moved by the spectacle of social injustice.
18 August 2025
Andy Goldsworthy Fifty Years Royal Scottish Academy – Clare Henry
Andy Goldsworthy has been hailed as a genius for his mega half-century retrospective, FIFTY, organised by the Scottish National Gallery at the Royal Scottish Academy as the centrepiece…
4 August 2025
Confluences Mark Woods Influences And Dialogues Cross Lane Projects Kendal – Peter Suchin
In curating the Confluences exhibition, Rebecca Scott has deliberately sidestepped the standard artworld trope of the artist as exceptional, but inevitably isolated, individual.
30 July 2025