Reviews
The Lost Leonardo Film Review by James Payne
James Payne reviews the new film "The Lost Leonardo" directed by Andreas Koefed and encounters a thrilling journey through the murky world of art....
Mark Woods An Uncanny And Taboo World – James Payne
James Payne explores the curious uncanny and taboo world of Mark Woods in his exhibition Absorption at Cross Lane Projects, Kendal. Woods uses...
Roger Cecil: A Once In A Generation Welsh Painter – Revd Jonathan Evens
Aged 21, after just one week, Roger Cecil walked away from his scholarship at the Royal College of Art to make art on his own terms at home in...
Tino Sehgal: Location, Nature And Pandemic – Blenheim Palace – Revd Jonathan Evens
The female participant in Tino Sehgal’s ‘Kiss’ is stretched out on the floor, head arched, looking back, as her partner moves in slow motion towards...
Lucian Freud: Real Lives In Focus Tate Liverpool – Alice Lenkiewicz
Lucian Freud - Real Lives is the first exhibition of his work in the North West for thirty years. Widely regarded as a master of modern portraiture,...
Edge to Edge The Cello Factory Review by Simon Streather
Edge to Edge features artists who use hard edges of some kind in their work but who are not necessarily defined by them. The hard edges they use are...
Michael Armitage And The Power Of Art – Royal Academy – Revd Jonathan Evens
Meek Gichugu's No Erotic Them Say, included in this show, traumatised the imagination of Michael Armitage as a child. Armitage was friends with Rik...
Sidney Nolan: Colour of the Sky – Auschwitz Paintings – Revd Jonathan Evens
In Europe and the US, the period following the Second World War was a time of impassioned artistic activity in which a modernist preoccupation with...
Paula Rego Ambiguous Persuasive and Subversive Tate Britain – Marina Vaizey
Paula Rego (b 1935) is an artist who is vividly expressive and imaginative in her use of colour deployed in the service of brilliantly choreographed...
Judy Chicago Unleashes Her New Autobiography – Edward Lucie-Smith
The dust-jacket of this handsome new book proclaims that ‘Judy Chicago is America’s most dynamic living artist’. That statement has been a long time...
Climate Art Residencies Unveiled At Rye Harbour Nature Reserve
Late, as often can be the case with our timetable, we arrived at Bridge Point Rye creative arts centre at a deserted exhibition. Everyone had been...
Rachel Kneebone: A Complex Tableau Of Organic And Geometric Forms – Revd Jonathan Evens
The Chapel at the Yorkshire Sculpture Park is a unique gallery space that was originally used by those privileged to inhabit the Bretton...