Reviews
William Kentridge: Merging Politics With Aesthetics – RA – Revd Jonathan Evens
“Drawing is the starting point to nearly all of Kentridge’s work. He sees drawing as a testing of ideas, a slow-motion version of thought.” Charcoal...
Power Of The Sea: Turner And Fofana- Tate Liverpool – Alice Lenkiewicz
The current Exhibition at Tate Liverpool, "Dark Waters", consists of works by Joseph Mallory William Turner and Lamin Fofana. It highlights Turner's...
Cezanne The Road To Modernism Tate Modern – Leila Lebreton
The Tate Modern's Paul Cezanne exhibition is probably one of the most elaborate and rich exhibitions this year. Spanning the entirety of Cezanne's...
Tribeca And Noho’s Best Exhibitions An Equinox Excursion October 2022 – Ilka Scobie
Returning to New York on Air Fair Weekend, I missed Independent, the Armory and Spring Break while nursing an airplane cold (luckily, not covid)....
Winslow Homer: Beyond The Sea – National Gallery – Revd Jonathan Evens
I first encountered Winslow Homer’s work at the National Gallery in Kehinde Wiley: The Prelude where Wiley included paintings inspired by Homer’s...
Bruce Nauman: Paradoxical By Nature – Pirelli HangarBicocca – Nico Kos Earle
At Bruce Nauman’s first MoMA retrospective in 1995, the art critic Robert Hughes said “no show was ever noisier…” but concluded that Nauman was...
Carolee Schneemann Breaking Artistic Boundaries At The Barbican – Sue Hubbard
The so-called swinging 60s didn't really get going until the Summer of Love in 1967, when thousands of young people in an eclectic mix of hippie...
Rencontres Photographiques d’Arles Returns – Virginie Puertolas-Syn
I was thrilled to return to Arles in Provence, France, for Les Rencontres Photographiques after a 3-year break due to the pandemic. Obviously, I...
Hidden Depths: The Woman in the Window – Dulwich Picture Gallery – Revd Jonathan Evens
It's such a simple motif - a woman at or by a window - yet, as curator Jennifer Sliwka ably demonstrates in this show, is one that contains hidden...
Juan Muñoz: Drawings Centro Botín, Santander – Nico Kos Earle
Just as the places we inhabit influence the way we think, the structures we imagine can transform our relationship with the world. Arriving in...
In The Black Fantastic London’s Best Summer Exhibition – Hayward Gallery
In his 2020 Aperture article on ‘The Black Fantastic’, Ekow Eshun used a definition of the fantastic created by the scholar Rosemary Jackson which,...
Allora Festival Of Art And Cinema Puglia – Virginie Puertolas-Syn
Straight from a busy week at Art Basel, I was delighted to attend the first edition of the Allora festival (Art & Cinema) in Ostuni, Puglia,...