Reviews
Renoir: Love Desire And Sexual Tension At The National Gallery
The words Renoir exhibition can fill you with trepidation. At his best, he produced outstanding, joyous paintings, and at his worst, he was the most...
Painting The French Riviera: A Celebration of Heat and Light, Royal Academy
The Royal Academy's stunning Autumn blockbuster Painting the French Riviera is the next best thing to visiting the Côte d'Azur. It is...
The Turner Prize Roadshow Descends On Middlesbrough’s MIMA – Michael Petry
The Turner Prize roadshow has landed in Middlesbrough this year, featuring the work of Simeon Barclay, Kira Freije, Marguerite Humeau and...
Van Gogh: All Our Paintings Kröller Müller Museum, Otterlo – Mariella Guzzoni
'It is an old faith, and it is a good faith that our life is a pilgrims' progress – that we are strangers in the earth, but that...
Alternative Miss World Returns With A Celebration Of Nature Fantasy And Fabulousness
There is really nothing in British culture quite like the Alternative Miss World Competition. Now in its sixteenth outing since 1972. This...
The Bayeux Tapestry A Hidden World Of Animals And Plants – Sara Faith
The Bayeux Tapestry has arrived at The British Museum in London after a historic loan agreement with France. The 70-metre Bayeux Tapestry...
Comrades in Art: Artists Against Fascism – Towner Eastbourne – Review
Comrades in Art: Artists Against Fascism, now showing at Towner Eastbourne's top-floor galleries, is stuffed to the rafters with over...
Richard Dadd Away With The Fairies Royal Academy of Arts – Sue Hubbard
On the 28th of August 1843, the painter Richard Dadd stabbed his father to death in Cobham Park, near Rochester in Kent, believing him to be the...
East Sussex Gallery Reviews Hastings To Bexhill – Jude Montague
Jude Montague has visited Hastings Contemporary and the De La Warr Pavilion in East Sussex to see their latest exhibitions. Janaina Tschäpe:...
Es Devlin Library of the Four Winds Castle Howard – Miranda Carroll
Giving your personal library away to others means a lot - I've had to offload books when relocating, and it's heartbreaking to lose those special...
Hasan Yiğit: Tracing, Transferring and Transforming Abstraction – Lee Sharrock
Turkish artist Hasan Yiğit’s recent solo exhibition at Versus Arts London (from 27 June to 3 July 2026) – titled Trace, Transfer, Transform –...
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...