Reviews
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,...
Grayson Perry Tapestries On Show At Salisbury Cathedral – Rev Jonathan Evens
The Vanity of Small Differences is an exhibition of six huge tapestries by Grayson Perry, which has recently opened to the public at Salisbury...
George Shaw: Reanimating The Post War Council Estate – Sue Hubbard
In 1938 a member of the American Abstract Artists Group, Ibram Lassaw, published an essay in the American Artists' Yearbook in which he put forward...
Summer Art Shows In NYC Three Exhibitions Not To Miss – Ilka Scobie
Marina Adams What Are You Listening to? LGDR (Top Photo) I first saw Marina Adams' bold, beautiful abstractions in a 1998 show at the wonderful "Art...
Theaster Gates Black Chapel Serpentine Pavilion – Sue Hubbard
The latest Serpentine Pavilion hunkers within the grounds of the Serpentine in Kensington Gardens like a dark grain silo transported from the...
Cornelia Parker A Conceptual And Sculptural Vision Tate Britain – Lee Sharrock
Cornelia Parker’s inaugural survey show in London spans a 35-year period, from the 1980s through to 2022. This multi-sensory, multi-media exhibition...
Hew Locke And The Christian Roots Of Carnival – Tate Britain – Revd Jonathan Evens
The word carnival derives from Latin expressions meaning either to remove meat or say farewell to meat. These indicate the Christian roots of...