John Copeland: The Return Of Exuberant Painterliness – Edward Lucie-Smith
John Copeland is an American painter in his 40s, not it seems particularly well known in his own country.
12 March 2018
Archives: Reviews
High Society: Four Centuries Of Lavish Portraiture – Rijks Museum – Paul Carter Robinson
High Society is a survey exhibition highlighting thirty-five portraits of the rich, famous and powerful of the day.
11 March 2018
Cerith Wyn Evans: Perceiving The Artist’s Searing Duchampian Neon – Paul Black
The internationally acclaimed Welsh artist Cerith Wyn Evans has unveiled his latest work; a major new neon sculpture at National Museum Cardiff.
9 March 2018
Picasso’s Unspoken Minotaur In The Room – Tate Modern – Edward Lucie-Smith
The hosannas have already begun. Picasso’s latest show at Tate Modern, entitled Picasso 1932: Love, Fame, Tragedy gets a 5-star review in The Times.
7 March 2018
Camden Arts Centre is currently presenting the first solo exhibition in the United Kingdom of Giorgio Griffa, an Italian abstract… Read More
4 March 2018
The Human Condition Relationships And Raw Desires – Tate Britain – Sue Hubbard
The 20th century saw God lose his central role within the scheme of human belief and philosophy.
2 March 2018
Bloomberg New Contemporaries Block 336 – Patrick Hamilton Courtney
Bloomberg New Contemporaries flies its Georgian nest for Block 336, an edgier artist-run space in Brixton.
2 March 2018
It’s A Fischl – Eric’s Latest London Exhibition Returns To Challenging Form
The American figurative painter Eric Fischl is back in London with a new exhibition of his large narrative canvases.
1 March 2018
Roy Oxlade: Painting A Sense Of The Absurd – Edward Lucie-Smith
The late Roy Oxlade (1929-1985) is currently in some danger of being remembered, first and foremost, as the partner of the current ‘emerging artist’ phenomenon that is Rose Wylie.
1 March 2018
Genta Ishizuka: Organic Urushi At The Royal Arcade – Zoltan Alexander
This story could have started a few months ago on the Gion Tatsumi bridge in Kyoto, Japan, or a long time ago on a lazy afternoon at Lucie Rie’s studio in London. Matthew Hall, the director of Erskine, Hall & Coe Gallery has the answer.
28 February 2018
Submerging Artists: Rebirthing A Genre By Edward Lucie-Smith
It’s become noticeable that while the British art world – it’s museum dominated segment in particular – still prattles happily about ‘emerging artists’, convincing examples of this species have become rarer and rarer.
26 February 2018
Rachel Howard A Rising International Artist With Substance – Edward Lucie-Smith
Rachel Howard (b. 1969 in County Durham) is a rising star in the British art world, which is currently badly in need of new names.
23 February 2018
Emil Nolde: A Secret Heart Of Darkness – Sue Hubbard
There is a conundrum at the heart of the work of Emil Nolde.
20 February 2018
Eddie Peake: Compulsive Obsessional And Occasionally Shit-Scared – By Zoltan Alexander
Anything but a conventional artist, Eddie Peake is a footballer, a musician, a dancer, a graffiti guy covered with spray-paint
20 February 2018
Nancy Rubins: A Woman Of Conviction – Gagosian – Edward Lucie-Smith
Nancy Rubins’ exuberant exhibition at Gagosian Britannia Street comes as a great relief in the current epoch of self-righteous #MeToo… Read More
19 February 2018
New York Now: Art Exhibitions Winter 2018 – Ilka Scobie
New Museum 2018 Triennial: Songs For Sabotage until May 27
19 February 2018
Gideon Rubin Explores The Sinister History Of Nazi Propaganda At Freud Museum
An exhibition of new work by Israeli/British artist Gideon Rubin, Black Book is the latest in a series of well-received shows curated by James Putnam.
13 February 2018
Sean Scully – Newcastle Where It All Began – Edward Lucie-Smith
The new Sean Scully show in Newcastle is spread over two galleries, the Laing and the Hatton, and contains no… Read More
12 February 2018
Henri Michaux Indefatigable Experimenter Guggenheim Bilbao – Sue Hubbard
Modern psychology has shown considerable interest in understanding the self. Investigations into the problems of selfhood spread during the 20th century from clinicians and humanistic psychologists to be explored in laboratories and by artists.
7 February 2018
BRAFA Brussels Antiques & Fine Arts Fair 13 Of The Best By Paul Carey-Kent
Reviewer at large Paul Carey-Kent reports on BRAFA Brussels Antiques & Fine Arts fair (BRAFA), which ran from 27 Jan – 4 Feb 2018.
5 February 2018
Glenn Brown: Fragments Repeated With Twiddly Bits Added – Edward Lucie-Smith
The more I looked at Glenn Brown’s latest show, the more I felt that I was both the right and the wrong person to be attempting to review it.
2 February 2018
Charles I Commemoration Of A Doomed King – Royal Academy – Edward Lucie-Smith
The R.A.’s new exhibition, devoted to the role of Charles I, the most unfortunate of the Stuart monarchs, as collector of art
30 January 2018
Steven Campbell: Large-Scale Collage Work Rich In Formal Invention – Clare Henry
When Steven Campbell arrived at Glasgow School of Art in 1978 age 25, he was a man in a hurry, fiercely ambitious and with enormous energy.
29 January 2018
Andreas Gursky: Presentations Of The Real World – Hayward Gallery – Edward Lucie-Smith
For those of us who remember the state of the Hayward Gallery before the just completed rehab, the current Andreas Gursky show, which celebrates its re-opening
27 January 2018
Bridget Riley – A Seductive Collaborative Invitation – By Edward Lucie-Smith
The new Bridget Riley show at David Zwirner is a knockout.
22 January 2018
London Art Exhibitions Winter 2018 Investigated By Zoltan Alexander
Art galleries opening all over the city with art as international as innovative. Given London, more than 1.500 galleries, its… Read More
21 January 2018
London Art Fair 2018 Sue Hubbard Has The Last Word
There was a time when the London Art Fair was the glitziest thing in the capital’s art world calendar.
20 January 2018
Philip Pearlstein: The American Lucian Freud’s Triumphant London Exhibition – Edward Lucie-Smith
Philip Pearlstein is one of the truly major figures in the history of 20th (and now 21st) century American art. He is now 93 years old, and still actively at work. His new show at the Saatchi Gallery is entitled simply Philip Pearlstein: Paintings 1990-2017
17 January 2018
John Piper Primaeval Haunting Surrealism – Tate Liverpool – Alice Lenkiewicz
There is something very exciting about John Piper’s early works at Tate Liverpool.
6 January 2018
London Art Exhibitions For January 2018 By Paul Carey-Kent
With Christmas 2017 and New Year 2018 behind us we return to the normality of the London art gallery offerings.
2 January 2018
Can Art Transform Society? – Two Exhibition Reviews By Revd Jonathan Evens
Two current exhibitions seem to suggest that art can transform society.
1 January 2018
Edward Lucie-Smith Chooses Ten Exhibitions That Made A Difference In 2017
What were the best exhibitions in 2017? What’s on my list of ten? The answers to this pair of questions really depend on which set of attitudes you choose to embrace. For me, choices No 1 and No 2 were nothing to do with contemporary art.
14 December 2017