Reviews
Antony Gormley: Time Horizon A Bond Between Humanity And Nature – Houghton Hall
Houghton Hall, Norfolk, is one of the most beautiful places in the world for a sculpture park. The 18th-century estate gleams in perfect symmetry in...
Juliet Margaret Cameron and Francesca Woodman Photographic Storytelling – Sue Hubbard
As much seems to divide the photographers Juliet Margaret Cameron and Francesca Woodman as unites them. The former was a well-bred Victorian English...
Yoko Ono: 70 Years Of Peace, Love And Understanding – Albertina Campbell
Yoko Ono walked so that Marina Abramović could run when she and her brother Keisuke looked up at the sky on empty stomachs and imagined menus with...
Elias Sime Transforms The Commonplace Hastings Contemporary – Jude Montague
Elias Sime is one of the best-known artists of his generation from Ethiopia. He was born in Addis Ababa and is a graduate of the Alle School of Fine...
Whitney Biennial 2024: Is This The Real Thing – Ilka Scobie
The Whitney Biennial, curated by Chrissie Illes and Meg Onli, now in its 81st incarnation, is America's longest-running survey show. It features the...
Desert X: Respect In The Presence of Absence – Leila Lebreton
Desert X AlUla 2024 - Landing in AlUla is like taking a trip to the moon. The plane flies low over the crater-like rock formations of this...
Issam Kourbaj Kettle’s Yard And Heong Gallery Cambridge – Revd Jonathan Evens
Issam Kourbaj: Urgent Archive at Kettle's Yard, with its concurrent exhibition 'You are not you, and home is not home' at Heong Gallery, is the...
Reframing The Black Figure – National Portrait Gallery – Albertina Campbell
Five years ago, curator and writer Ekow Eshun embarked on a mission to formulate a new narrative from the Black perspective for a 21st-century...
John Singer Sargent: A Dedicated Follower Of Fashion – Nico Kos-Earle
In 1881, the artist John Singer Sargent was commissioned to paint his first large portrait of a male subject, the charismatic Parisian surgeon Dr...
Frans Hals: A Golden Age Dutch Master Returns – Nico Kos-Earle
In March 1849, Théophile Thoré-Bürger founded Le Journal de la vraie République, which Cavaignac (head of the French Second Republic) banned. Forced...
Barbara Kruger: Complex Mechanisms Of Power Gender And Class – Nico Kos-Earle
En route to the Serpentine in Kensington Gardens, a black and white taxi blurs past me, drawing my gaze along Exhibition Road. I glimpse the words...
Art Flourishes at GSA Despite Mackintosh Building Veiled in Plastic – Clare Henry
It's been a long time since I braved a visit to (GSA) Glasgow School of Art. Since the two tragic fires, a nightmare-burnt edifice covered in...