Reviews
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...
Alice Neel Collector Of Souls Barbican Art Gallery – Sara Faith
Alice Neel: Hot Off The Griddle opens at the Barbican Art Gallery this week. The exhibition is the study of American figurative painter Alice Neel...
Vermeer: Stillness and Light Rijksmuseum Amsterdam – Sue Hubbard
Delft was Vermeer's city. Stand in front of his small painting, The Little Street of 1658 and you will see cobbles and a gabled brick house with...
Five New York Exhibitions Not To Miss – February 2023 – Ilka Scobie
I first saw Portia Munson’s transformative Pink Room at the New Museum’s legendary: Bad Girls Show” way back in 1994. English aficionados might...
Sam Ainsley Out of Redness comes Kindness – Clare Henry
I first met Sam Ainsley in 1978. She was a part-time assistant at Edinburgh's Fruitmarket Gallery. I was reviewing the show. The following week we...
Art In Spain And The Hispanic World A New RA Survey Exhibition – Lee Sharrock
Spain and the Hispanic World: Treasures from the Hispanic society museum & library is a major new survey exhibition featuring 150 works at the...
British Modern And Contemporary Art Sales Steady At London Art Fair
Now in its 35th year, London Art Fair continues to play a pivotal role in bringing British Modern and Contemporary Art to market. This is a triumph...
Giorgio Morandi: A Quiet Moment Estorick Collection – James Payne
To mark the 25th anniversary of the Estorick Collection, the gallery is presenting a major exhibition of works by Giorgio Morandi, considered by...
High Rise Connecting Conversations – An Experiential Installation Hastings To Kyiv – Jude Montague
It was in the lost and forgotten week between Christmas and New Year that I made my way across the blowy cold seafront to the Stade Hall. I have...
Magdalena Abakanowicz & Maria Bartuszová Every Tangle of Thread Every Broken Shell – Nico Kos Earle
At the entrance to Every Tangle of Thread and Rope is a vast black-and-white photographic transfer of Magdalena Abakanowicz (20 June 1930 – 20 April...
Lucian Freud And His Circle Surveyed In Two London Exhibitions
In Bruce Bernard: Portraits of Friends and in a noted John Deakin photograph of Michael Andrews, Frank Auerbach, Francis Bacon and Lucian Freud in...
Mayfair: London Gallery Round-Up December 2022 – Nico Kos Earle
Gavin Turk - Kerze - Ben Brown Fine Arts 'I first came to notice this painting [Kerze, 1983] in 1988 when it was used on the album cover of Daydream...