Reviews
East Sussex Gallery Reviews – Eastbourne To St Leonards – Gail Borrow And Jude Montague
A round-up of exhibitions in East Sussex between Eastbourne and St Leonards in April 2023. TOWNER 100: The Living Collection 17 December 2022 to 28...
Soutine Kossoff Hastings Contemporary – A Relatable Pairing by Jude Montague
When a major exhibition of such significant artists as Chaim Soutine and Leon Kossoff, with such a comprehensive display of important paintings,...
TEFAF Maastricht 2023 The Connoisseurs’ Art Fair – Alexandre Daletchine
Years ago, when I first went to TEFAF in Maastricht, the seminal global art fair, I was overwhelmed. For the expert eye and the neophytes visiting...
Religion and Spirituality in Post Impressionism National Gallery – Revd Jonathan Evens
After Impressionism: Inventing Modern Art explores the period in modern art from the last Impressionist exhibition in Paris in 1886 to the eve of...
Black Artists From The American South Royal Academy – Rev Jonathan Evens
By creating his first readymades in 1914, Marcel Duchamp made it possible for anyone to become an artist and for anything to be an artwork. He could...
Oskar Kokoschka Expressionism, Rebellion and Humanism Guggenheim Bilbao – Sara Faith
Oskar Kokoschka (1886-1980) is best known for his early links to the Viennese art scene, where Gustav Klimt encouraged and supported him and where...
Garry Fabian Miller: Adore Arnolfini Arts – Nico Kos Earle
When Garry Fabian Miller was 19 years old, he stepped out onto the balcony of his flat in Clevedon and looked across the Severn Estuary towards the...
East Sussex Gallery Reviews – St Leonards To Bexhill – Jude Montague And Gail Borrow
Anna Maria Nabirye and Annie Saunders have been collaborators since 2008. Nabirye co-founded the creative community dreaming space Afri-Co-lab in...
Sir Paul Smith’s Sublime Homage To Picasso – Musée National Picasso – Paris
The English fashion designer Sir Paul Smith has created one of the most engaging Picasso exhibitions ever mounted to mark the fiftieth anniversary...
Alberto Biasi: Dinamica Ecologica – Cardi Gallery – Alex Leith
Alberto Biasi is fond of telling a story to characterise the nature of his work. It’s 1988 and a group of schoolkids is visiting the Eremitani...
Peter Doig: Painting By The Light Of The Moon – Courtauld – Nico Kos Earle
A pea green fishing boat drifts mysteriously on a moonlit sea. Along its length stand ghostly figures looking out to port, many carrying instruments...
Donatello: The Divine Fused With The Human V&A – Revd Jonathan Evens
About one-third of the way into Donatello: Sculpting the Renaissance we encounter a ‘Virgin and Child’ tondo by Giovanni Pisano, a startlingly...