Reviews
George Condo Lockdown Works Hauser & Wirth – Revd Jonathan Evens
There is an explosion of paint at Hauser & Wirth in the latest exhibition by George Condo. The energies of emergence and encounter surge within...
Theaster Gates Clay As A Profound Metaphor – Revd Jonathan Evens
In the beginning, there was clay. Clay was without form. Thus begins Theaster Gates' 'A Clay Sermon', a film combining music, images, and words to...
Reflection A Journey Through Sunlight The Cello Factory Review
One of the notable characteristics of The Cello Factory is its copious natural light making it the perfect space for the “Reflection” exhibition,...
Mark Rothko: Mesmerising And Intimate Works On Paper – Revd Jonathan Evens
Among Mark Rothko’s artistic philosophies, he held that painting was a deeply psychological and spiritual experience through which basic human...
Farsad Labbauf Revisiting Fragments and Entities – Isa Freeling
Do not miss Artist Farsad Labbauf's new show 'Revisiting Fragments and Entities', which opened recently in Chelsea at Roya Khadjavi Projects. This...
Duncan Grant An Enigmatic Bohemian Rhapsody – Marina Vaizey
The artist Duncan Grant (1885-1978) was a charismatic, much-loved central figure in the Bloomsbury Group, a collection of friends, including the...
Turner Prize 2021: A Collective Experience – Sue Hubbard
For reasons lost in the mists of time, the city of Coventry is where you're purportedly sent when socially ostracised, as well as where the first...
The Last Temptation of Christo – L’Arc de Triomphe: Wrapped – James Payne
James Payne has been to Paris to see Christo's wrapping of L'Arc de Triomphe. Napoléon's monument to himself has been turned into a memento mori for...
Emily Speed: Body Architecture Tate Liverpool – Alice Lenkiewicz
When I first heard about Emily Speed's exhibition being based upon the human body and related to architecture, I wasn't quite sure what to expect....
Rebound Ramblings: New York City Art Week 2021 RoundUp – Ilka Scobie
With major as well as offbeat art fairs, ranging from the Armory at the massive Javits Center (where I last went for my Covid vaccination) to tiny...
Brash Is Beautiful – Yinka Saves The Day At Royal Academy Summer Show
When the Royal Academy was founded in 1768, one of its key aims was to establish an annual exhibition open to all artists ‘of merit’ (as long, one...
International Autumn Art Exhibition Reviews – Revd Jonathan Evens
It used to be the case that, while artists frequently explored the intersections between art and faith, curators and critics thought that, in the...