Reviews

Among Mark Rothko’s artistic philosophies, he held that painting was a deeply psychological and spiritual experience through which basic human...

Do not miss Artist Farsad Labbauf's new show 'Revisiting Fragments and Entities', which opened recently in Chelsea at Roya Khadjavi Projects. This...

The artist Duncan Grant (1885-1978) was a charismatic, much-loved central figure in the Bloomsbury Group, a collection of friends, including the...

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...

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...

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....

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...

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...

It used to be the case that, while artists frequently explored the intersections between art and faith, curators and critics thought that, in the...

James Payne reviews the new film "The Lost Leonardo" directed by Andreas Koefed and encounters a thrilling journey through the murky world of art....

James Payne explores the curious uncanny and taboo world of Mark Woods in his exhibition Absorption at Cross Lane Projects, Kendal. Woods uses...

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...