Reviews
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...
Welcome To Glasgow International Visual Art Biennial 2021 – Clare Henry
Seventy exhibitions and events from over 100 artists. Sounds a lot? Yet, the overall result of Glasgow International is disappointingly thin....
Cacophony: Four Iranian Artists AB-ANBAR Cromwell Place – Sue Hubbard
Few in the West will have been to Tehran. We are either likely to think of an exotic Persia full of sultans and hareems – the sort of orientalism...
Barbara Hepworth: Symbols Of Art & Life – Hepworth Wakefield – Revd Jonathan Evens
Looking back on her work, Hepworth identified three important sculptural forms to which she continually returned. These were the ‘standing form’,...
Rodin: Suffering And Conflict – Tate Modern – Revd Jonathan Evens
To stage a major Rodin exhibition in 2021, the 700th anniversary of the death of Dante is particularly appropriate as Rodin reread the Divine...
Modern British Artists At The Beach Hastings Contemporary – Jude Cowan Montague
Jude Cowan Montague explores Seaside Modern: Art and Life on the Beach at Hastings Contemporary. As we warm up to the summer of re-opens, visiting a...
David Hockney: Sequentially Spring Royal Academy – Marina Vaizey
David Hockney is, for a variety of reasons, a British National Treasure. Why? It is stunningly evident in the special exhibition of paintings done...