Reviews
Ai Weiwei Urns Respect at V&A
Review of Ai Weiwei: Dropping the Urn (Ceramic Works, 5000 BC – AD 2010) at the V&AHaving just been named third in Time magazine’s...
Damien Hirst Spot The Difference
Gagosian opens 11 simultaneous exhibitions of Damien Hirst’s Spot Paintings internationally: we review the London offeringDamien Hirst has...
Bloomberg New Contemporaries Find Its Legs At ICA
The ICA is overflowing with young hopefuls eager to make waves; ArtLyst tests the waterAs Virginia Woolf claimed of books, perhaps so with works of...
Anselm Kiefer Does His Magic at White Cube
White Cube Bermondsey stages UK’s largest ever Anselm Kiefer exhibition to great effectAlmost three years after his last show at White Cube,...
Daniel Buren Earns His Stripes At Lisson Gallery
French Conceptual artist Daniel Buren returns to UK to remind us what all the fuss is aboutDaniel Buren: One Thing To Another brings everything that...
Haunch Of Venison Reveals Mystery Of Appearance
‘One knows that, by some accidental brushmarks, suddenly appearance comes in with a vividness that no accepted way of doing things would have...
Lygia Pape Gets Due Recognition At Serpentine Retrospective
First major UK retrospective of late artist Lygia Pape opens at the Serpentine -Magnetized Space - firming up her reputation as the Mother of...
Spanish Line At Courtauld More Siesta Than Fiesta
‘The Spanish Line: Drawings from Ribera to Picasso’ seeks to rehabilitate a much-maligned and ill-defined school of draughtsmanship, but...
Georg Karl Pfahler Retrospective At Maria Stenfors
Exhibition devoted to Georg Karl Pfahler, the German representative of ‘Hard-Edge Painting’ – a style popularised by the...
Scottish National Portrait Gallery Unveils New Face
SNPG £17.6m restoration project breathes new life into prestigious collection‘Ladies and Gentlemen, there are very many stories we...
Just How Different Is The Other Art Fair
In cutting out the middleman and helping artists sell directly to art buyers, does The Other Art Fair provide a real alternative to the established...
Louise Lawler And The Politics Of Space
Review of Louise Lawler’s No Drones at Sprüth Magers, her first solo show in the UK for four yearsLawler's photographs capture artworks...
