Reviews
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...
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...