Reviews
Frank Auerbach Intimate And Intense Charcoal Drawings Courtauld Gallery – Sue Hubbard
"Drawing is.... A form of mapping, it is a conversation with the self, an attempt to make sense of the physical world by giving it form and weight....
Entangled Pasts: Colonialism’s Unilluminated Histories Royal Academy – Lee Sharrock
Entangled Pasts, 1768–now. Art, Colonialism and Change' takes over the main galleries of the Royal Academy of Arts from 3rd February to 28th April...
Joana Vasconcelos PLUG-IN MAAT Lisbon – Joaquim A Neto
In a time when there is so much talk about unplugging, Joana Vasconcelos presents us with her PLUG-IN Exhibition in the buildings and surroundings...
The Winter Show 70th Edition Exceeds Expectations – Clayton Calvert
The highly anticipated 70th Edition of The Winter Show exceeded expectations with over 70 booths full of treasures. The fair is known for having...
Sheila Girling Colour And Collage Clifford Chance – Sue Hubbard
I first came across Sheila Girling's work when I reviewed her exhibition at the Pilgrim Gallery for The Independent. We had not met then, but she...
Li Yuan-chia And Friends Kettles Yard Cambridge – Revd Jonathan Evens
The boundary-defying artistic practice of Li Yuan-chia, particularly through his LYC Museum and Art Gallery, turns aspects of modern art history on...
Antony Gormley Explores Self Awareness White Cube Bermondsey – Revd Jonathan Evens
Antony Gormley has spent his career investigating the relationship of the human body to space. Through his fertile imagination, this has proved to...
James Ensor Landmark 75th Anniversary Celebrated With Belgian Wide Exhibitions
Jude Montague visited Ostend as part of the Ensor2024 celebrations, James Ensor in Flanders and Brussels, on the 75th anniversary of his death. We...
Dan Flavin And Donald Judd: Meditative Ethereal Minimalism – QM Gallery Al Riwaq – Doha – Leila Lebreton
Doha's QM Gallery – Al Riwaq is currently hosting an exhibition of the American artists Dan Flavin (1933–1996) and Donald Judd (1928–1994), two of...
Holbein: Politics Religion And Draughtsmanship – The Queen’s Gallery – Revd Jonathan Evens
Holbein at the Tudor Court is an exhibition of social history as much as it is an exhibition of art. The art on show is, of course, stunning, as...
Six New York Gallery Shows December 2023 – Ilka Scobie
Retinal Hysteria at Venus Over Manhattan 13 January - Robert Storr has curated the city's most exciting and provocative group show with over eighty...
Tony Bevan: Epistophes and Heads – Ben Brown Fine Art – Sue Hubbard
An epistrophe is a word or phrase repeated at the end of a sentence to emphasise or heighten emotion. Derived from the ancient Greek, it implies a...