The R.A.’s celebration of its 250th-anniversary show has met with hosannas in the press, with maybe the loudest of all coming from those who see themselves as the declared foes and detractors of anything remotely conservative looking in the visual arts.
11 June 2018
Marc Chagall is an enigma. On one hand he is one of the most successful 20th-century artists, in the major auction rooms, with paintings achieving up to £28m, yet he remains overshadowed by his contemporaries Picasso, Matisse, Modigliani and Soutine. That is until now.
10 June 2018
Aftermath is at last a good solid show at Tate Britain, rather than something anxiously politically correct, and equally anxious to demonstrate just how goody-two-shoes the Tate brand has become.
7 June 2018
The current show of late paintings by Howard Hodgkin at Gagosian Grosvenor Hill is, for me, a melancholy occasion.
4 June 2018
I’m just back from the opening of Charles March photography show at Palazzo Borghese in Rome. His work, often on a very large scale, is well suited to the grandeur of Italian palace rooms.
1 June 2018
There is a sense of the grotesque to the work of Egon Schiele. His gnarled and crooked drawings of nudes are strong but isolated within the pure space of the surrounding paper. Limbs become exaggerated and deformed as in ‘’Standing Male Nude’, 1910,
26 May 2018
Julian Schnabel currently occupies an ambiguous position in the art world, which his new solo exhibition at Pace is likely to do little to clarify.
22 May 2018
I have admired much of Tacita Dean’s earlier work. Her blackboard drawings, including her piece on the deluded round-the-world-yachtsman, Donald Crowhurst.
20 May 2018
Monumental and breathtaking are the words that first come to my mind when I think of Katharina Grosse’s site-specific installations.
18 May 2018
Photo London 2018 is, as usual, an overwhelmingly large event.
16 May 2018
Tate Modern’s new show, Shape of Light, has already received negative reviews from The Independent, The Times, and The Sunday Times.
10 May 2018
I was from quite early on a convert to the cult of Joseph Beuys.
8 May 2018
St Cuthbert’s Church in Edinburgh (Kirk of the Castle Rock and Princes St Gardens) is currently home to an outstanding video art installation by the internationally respected American artist Bill Viola.
6 May 2018
In the society we now have, photography has become the dominant medium for conveying news, opinion, social criticisms of all kinds.
1 May 2018
Subversive humour reigns supreme as surrealist enigma Nancy Fouts continues her search for the mania and absurdity in the everyday.
30 April 2018
One of the most important American video and performance artists Joan Jonas emerged in the late 1960s.
29 April 2018
The longer I spent in the British Museum’s admirable new blockbuster show, Rodin and the art of ancient Greece, the more keenly I seemed to feel the presence of a third, uninvited presence
26 April 2018
In 1983 David Mach burst upon the media stage with his London Southbank giant Polaris car tyre submarine installation.
17 April 2018
At this low point in relationships between Russia and the West, it’s a good idea to remember how little we actually know about contemporary Russian art.
16 April 2018
Art lovers have Magritte safely classified as a leading Surrealist.
16 April 2018
Sometimes two shows come along that seem perfectly timed to contradict one another.
10 April 2018
The National Gallery’s splendid new show, Monet & Architecture, caps a very rich Spring 2018 season of exhibitions in London
5 April 2018
Sawdust and Sequins – Royal West of England Academy, Bristol: Set in the spacious galleries at the RWA in Bristol this group show was designed to celebrate the 250th Anniversary of the birth of the travelling circus in Britain
2 April 2018
Transference is the exhibition currently on at MOCA London, featuring artists Sue Arrowsmith and Mathew Weir.
1 April 2018
The noted writer and curator Paul Carey-Kent gives us his rolling ten recommended contemporary art shows in London for April 2018. Paul currently freelances for Art Monthly, Frieze, Elephant, STATE, Photomonitor, Border Crossings and World of Interiors, and has a weekly online column at FAD Art News.
31 March 2018
As Duchamp stated in 1915; “America is the country of the art of the future. Look at the skyscrapers!
29 March 2018
The Family in Disorder: Truth or Dare, sees Brazilian artist Cinthia Marcelle transform the architectural properties of Modern Art Oxford
25 March 2018
The Panacea Museum tells the story of the Panacea Society – a remarkable religious community formed in the early twentieth century.
25 March 2018
The Saatchi Gallery’s new anthology show Known Unknowns marks another forward step in its recovery.
22 March 2018
I am thinking of the Owlman. Ask any insomniac about “The Shadow People”, and their eyes will widen, and they tell you a dozen tales.
22 March 2018
Although Artlyst essentially focuses on contemporary art reviews, gallery listings and not o operas,
19 March 2018
Three very different books that somehow reflect different facets of the same situation.
19 March 2018
