Reviews
Isamu Noguchi: Socially Engaged Art – Barbican Centre – Revd Jonathan Evens
Isamu Noguchi thought art should improve the way people live and believed sculpture could 'be a vital force in our everyday life. He saw art 'as...
Pablo Bronstein: A This-World Vision Of Hell – Revd Jonathan Evens
The work and practice of Pablo Bronstein addresses two common misconceptions. The first concerns art and is to do with the perception that the...
Laura Knight Documenting A Long Forgotten Britain – Sara Faith
There is a current (long overdue) trend to redress the balance in an art world long dominated by male practitioners toward the rediscovery of women...
Bosco Sodi: In The Beginning Of Wisdom – Revd Jonathan Evens
Visitors make a subterranean descent to the basement spaces of the Konig Gallery. This is an appropriate space for the display of Bosco Sodi's work...
Women in Abstraction / Alice Neel People Come First – Guggenheim Bilbao – Paul Carter Robinson
Two exceptional touring exhibitions have converged at the Guggenheim Bilbao, one from the Centre Pompidou titled 'Women in Abstraction'. The other...
Lucy McKenzie Master Of Trompe-l’œil Tate Liverpool – Alice Lenkiewicz
Words cannot really describe the epic scale and breadth of this exhibition. There is so much to see and think about. It's a challenging and...
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...