Reviews
Chris Marker: A life long Obsession With Memory War And Politics
A Grin Without a Cat, at the Whitechapel Gallery till 22 June, is the widest Chris Marker retrospective ever shown in the UK. The visitor evolves...
Pangaea: A Heterogenous Selection Of Contemporary Artists At The Saatchi Gallery
Around 200 million years ago, a supercontinent called Pangaea - containing what we now know as the earth’s seven continents - broke apart in a...
London Art Exhibitions To See In May 2014 By Paul Carey – Kent
TEN CURRENT CHOICES: Paul Carey - Kent Offers up a selection of the best art exhibitions for May 2014 The latest in his rolling top ten, together...
Joseph Beuys Jorg Immendorff: Art And Its Revelatory Socio-political Ability
Art Belongs to the People is the second exhibition at the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, taken from the collection of the Hall Art Foundation, and is...
Open West 2014 Shows Ambitious Curatorial Vision In Cheltenham
The Art world is saturated with " Art competitions" offering opportunities for artists of all levels to exhibit their work. Many of these events...
Alan Davie A Vigorous Impulsive Spiritual All Arounder At Tate Britain
This mini retrospective of the recently deceased Alan Davie (September 28, 1920 – April 5, 2014) presents eight of his works owned by the Tate, each...
Polke/ Richter: Two Artists Spiralling Apart On A Vastly Different Stylistic Trajectory
When the co-curator of Christie’s historic new exhibition Polke/Richter-Richter/Polke, Darren Leak, wrote of his intentions to convey the two giants...
Julian Schnabel: Bridging An Unconventional Road Between Figurative And Abstraction
Julian Schnabel's new exhibition at “The Dairy” successfully accomplishes the rare act of combining abstraction and figurative painting all in one...
Matisse Swan Song Fizzes With Invigorating, Playful Energy: Tate Modern
There is little to fault in terms of curation of ‘The Cut Outs’, a chronological survey of Matisse’s late period of works constrained to the medium...
Henri Matisse: Expressive Simplistic Colour And Pattern Painted With Scissors
Let’s not beat around the bush here – this is a stunning, uplifting, joyous exhibition that reminds everyone what Art is truly about. Just...
Robert Capa: Concern And A Deep Love Of Humanity
“TODAY WAS ONE OF THE GREAT PICTURE DAYS IN LIFE'S OFFICE” read a cable from the editors of Life, a now-defunct photojournalism magazine, late at...
Tale Of Two Cities: An Artist’s Pilgrimage From Transylvania To LA
The paintings of Marius Bercea, which are presented in Blain|Southern’s current show, recalls the artist’s personal pilgrimage from his home in...