Reviews
Gillian Ayres Elevated To Her Rightful Place – The Box Plymouth – Sue Hubbard
I first met Gillian Ayres in the 1980s when, as a young art critic, I went to interview her in her three-bears' cottage filled with dogs, paintings...
Ai Weiwei Button Up! Aviva Studios Everything Is Political – Sara Faith
Aviva Studios in Manchester, part of Factory International, is a vast warehouse space. Renowned Chinese artist and activist Ai Weiwei has spent the...
Contemporary Indigenous North American Artists YSP – Miranda Carroll
'Be Rooted - Hold to This Earth' reads one of sixteen text-based monotype prints from the series Defend Sacred Mountains, 2018, by Hock E Aye Vi...
The Frida Kahlo Phenomenon Tate Modern – Sue Hubbard
The Mexican artist Frida Kahlo liked to pretend that she was Jewish, claiming that her father was a Hungarian Jew rather than that she descended...
The Sun and The Moon Saatchi Gallery A Sublime Experience – Revd Jonathan Evens
The Saatchi Gallery has launched a series of exhibitions that survey how the natural world inspires creativity across art and culture. Following...
Anish Kapoor Less Is More Hayward Gallery – Sue Hubbard
When I first saw Anish Kapoor's work in the 1980s, piles of Kleinian blue and saffron coloured pigments piled on the gallery floor, it felt as if I...
Hepworth Colour and Form in Harmony At The Courtauld – Nico Kos Earle
Barbara Hepworth's move to Cornwall with her family in 1939 transformed her practice and her use of colour. Five days before the Second World War...
Phyllida Barlow Disrupts Wolterton – Miranda Carroll
"I want sculpture to be as awkward as possible, to feel unstable, as if it might fall apart." Phyllida Barlow 1944-2023 Disrupting the hallowed...
Jasper Johns: Silence, Loss, Love, Memory and Grief Guggenheim Bilbao – Miranda Carroll
"I dreamt one night I painted the flag of America. The next day I did it." With the imminent anniversary marking 250 years since the signing of the...
Francis Picabia: Can We Ignore His Fascist Past – Hauser & Wirth Have
There is a candy-coated version of Francis Picabia that art institutions seem to follow. The dazzling shape-shifter, the Dada provocateur,...
Blue Moon Meanderings: Tribeca And Chelsea Summer Exhibitions 2026 – Ilka Scobie
Spanning both gallery locations, London-born Lynette Yiadom-Boakye's recent work portrays imaginary, elegant and enigmatic fictional characters. The...
Antony Gormley Two Exhibitions Two Countries – Miranda Carroll
At the Royal Museum of Fine Arts Antwerp (KMSKA), a white cube has been inserted into the centre of the vast building, creating gallery space for...