9 March 2019
Henry Moore Helmet Heads Historic Armour And Modernism – Jude Cowan Montague
Henry Moore Helmet Heads: As an etcher, I have a long term interest in armour as one of the early applications of the process....
Reviews
9 March 2019
Louis-Leopold Boilly And The 19th Century Parisian Bourgeoisie – Edward Lucie-Smith
Sometimes the dear old National Gallery here in London comes up with a nice surprise. Their new one-room, free entry exhibition is devoted to...
3 March 2019
Ken Currie: Protest Defeat And Victory – Revd Jonathan Evens
Violence is to be found everywhere and at all times, even where people pretend that it does not exist. That is the argument made...
2 March 2019
The Renaissance Nude Exposed – Royal Academy – Edward Lucie-Smith
The RA’s new exhibition The Renaissance Nude, upstairs in the Sackler Wing of Burlington House, tackles an ambitious theme – the portrayal of the...
Dorothea Tanning The Doors of Perception – Tate Modern – Jude Cowan Montague
Dorothea Tanning is the artist, face hidden to me back then, who drew and painted a short series of paintings that I have loved...
27 February 2019
Upcoming Curators Review Exhibitions at Annka Kultys / Cell Project Space
Exhibitions at Annka Kultys and Cell Project Space reviewed by upcoming curators who are students of Sarah Sparkes’ course How to be an Independent...
27 February 2019
Franz West: Tate Modern And David Zwirner London – Edward Lucie-Smith
The Franz West show at Tate Modern, with a smaller spin-off at the London branch of Zwirner, the late artist’s long-time dealer, presents the...
23 February 2019
Diane Arbus Street Of Secrets – Hayward Gallery – Sue Hubbard
My favourite thing is to go where I’ve never been’ wrote the photographer Diane Arbus, the poor little rich Jewish girl who walked on...
20 February 2019
Don McCullin A Major Retrospective – Tate Britain – Jude Cowan Montague
A major retrospective of the war photographer Don McCullin at Tate Britain showcases his images from Vietnam, Northern Ireland and more recently Syria alongside...
20 February 2019
Is This Art Today? 4 London Shows – Edward Lucie-Smith
A group of recently opened shows, very different from one another, raise questions about the direction the visual arts are now taking.
17 February 2019
Upcoming Curators Review Zabludowicz And New Art Projects London
Exhibitions at the Zabludowicz and New Art Projects reviewed by upcoming curators who are students of the How to be an Independent Curator course...
16 February 2019
All the Rembrandts Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam – Sue Hubbard
With his Bob Dylan mop of curls and pug nose, he looks every inch the rebellious teenager that he was.
12 February 2019
Pig Out: Chinese Open Underground Art Exhibition Q Park – Jude Cowan Montague
It can be touch and go whether it's on or not each year. The logistics are huge. The goodwill required for this annual impromptu...
7 February 2019
Tracey Emin: Personal Real And Imaginative – Jude Cowan Montague
I visited the white, white cube for the Emin show a day after the people-jammed preview opening. I'm a little allergic to crowds so...
6 February 2019
New London Exhibitions February 2019 – Edward Lucie-Smith
There’s a conflict of impulses in the art world just now. On the one hand, there is a desire to reflect what’s going on...
6 February 2019
Glasgow Exhibitions Winter 2019 – Clare Henry
GLASGOW's reputation has risen & fallen over the years. 1990 saw a peak. The city is now in a trough.
31 January 2019
Bill Viola And Michelangelo A Fairground Magical Mystery Tour – Edward Lucie-Smith
The catalogue for the new Bill Viola show at the Royal Academy – also featuring a group of Michelangelo's best, most finished drawings –...
28 January 2019
Utopia Through Nostalgia The Koppel Project Hive – Jude Cowan Montague
Molly Brocklehurst curated this small group show to a grand idea that stems from her own work as a painter; to use art to...
24 January 2019
Richard Pousette-Dart An Elegant Affair With A Covert Past – Edward Lucie-Smith
Richard Pousette-Dart (1916-1992) is now one of the less-clearly remembered of the New York Abstract Expressionists, especially here in the UK. He was however...
21 January 2019
Pierre Bonnard: A French Painter Carrying Forward A Great Inheritance – Edward Lucie-Smith
Bonnard was one of those betwixt and between artists, part of the Modern Movement
18 January 2019
Rebecca Scott Beneath The Silk and Gloss – Jude Cowan Montague
Rebecca Scott's huge oil paintings of defaced magazine pages: it's a visceral exhibition by a confident painter, secure in her style, able to wow...
16 January 2019
Lynette Yiadom Boakye In Lieu Of A Louder Love – Ilka Scobie
A couple of years after Lynette Yiadom Boakye dazzled New York with her solo show at the New Museum, she returns to the city...
15 January 2019
Mayfair’s Golden Oldies: Bernard Jacobson At 50 and Stephen Buckley @ Mayor Gallery – Edward Lucie-Smith
The Bernard Jacobson Gallery in the heart of London has had a long connection with artists’ prints and printmaking since it first opened its...
13 January 2019
Pailthorpe And Mednikoff The Birth of Psychorealism – Edward Lucie-Smith
This Christmas and New Year it was an exhibition at the sternly Modernist – yes, with a big M - De La Warr Pavilion...
9 January 2019
How Egon Schiele Became Egon Schiele – Fondation Louis Vuitton – Jude Cowan Montague
When I visited art college studios as a jealous English student in the 1980s, the cool, edgy artists had pictures of skinny, edgy women...
7 January 2019
Irving Penn Paintings: A Kind Of Photographic Sub-Stratum – Edward Lucie-Smith
Irving Penn (1917-2009) was one of the great stars of 20th century American photography, at a time when the United States was becoming the...
28 December 2018
Philip Colbert / Marshmallow Laser Feast – Saatchi Gallery- Review Edward Lucie-Smith
In the current context of London exhibitions, the unabashed rock-'n’roll energy of the Philip Colbert Hunt Paintings' show, recently opened upstairs at the Saatchi...
28 December 2018
Jean-Michel Basquiat – Fondation Louis Vuitton – Review Jude Cowan Montague
Where are the black artists in the galleries? We think it's bad now, what about during the 1980s? The early 1980s before Basquiat?
27 December 2018
Thomas Gainsborough: A Thirst For Visible Originality – Edward Lucie-Smith
After various adventures away from its traditional subject-matter – the recent Michael Jackson show being a case in point, the National Portrait Gallery returns...
19 December 2018
Breeeeze: Four Artists Consider The Ambivalence Of Domestic Space – Elizabeth Fullerton
“A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction,” Virginia Woolf wrote in her famous essay...
17 December 2018
Edwin Landseer The Return Of A Moralistically Empathetic Artist – Edward Lucie-Smith
How times have changed! And how much they haven’t! A small but telling display of work by the celebrated Victorian artist Sir Edwin Landseer,...