Reviews
Rachel Whiteread: A Beguiling New Exhibition At Gagosian – Marina Vaizey
The Gagosian Gallery on Grosvenor Hill is a quietly present, subtly magnificent slab of grey, and inside there are several large top-lit galleries....
Martin Wong and Aaron Gilbert P.P.O.W. Review Ilka Scobie
Art created during a crisis can be a powerful catharsis for both artist and audience. Chinese American Martin Wong (1946-1999) once said,...
London Art Exhibitions Are Back – Paul Carey-Kent
Paul Carey-Kent is back on the London Gallery trail with some exciting offerings for April and May, this Spring. Here are some quick ongoing...
Sean Scully: Philosophical Poetic Pastoral The 12 / Dark Windows – Revd Jonathan Evens
Since 1999, Sean Scully's Landline paintings have led a transition from what John Caldwell called 'the asceticism of his earlier black paintings'...
Architectural Envelopes: The Modern Art Museum – Charles Saumarez Smith
The underlying momentum of this remarkable and provocatively thoughtful book, The Art Museum in Modern Times by Charles Saumarez Smith, is the...
KAWS: Reinventing Appropriation Brooklyn Museum – Raphy Sarkissian
Upon entering the Brooklyn Museum to view “KAWS: What Party”, the visitor is confronted by a colossal and strikingly iconic sculpture titled “Along...
Arthur Jafa: The Art Of Cutting And Pasting – Revd Jonathan Evens
There are three keys to the work of Arthur Jafa. The first is Black potention, an awareness that for Jafa derives from the act of cutting and...
Kati Vilim: Optical and Tactile ─ Raphy Sarkissian
Seeming to be weightless so as to float off into the ether, planar surfaces intercept and overlap, at once asserting the flatness of the canvas and...
Gabriel J. Shuldiner: The Poetry of Black — Raphy Sarkissian
“Can there be a more hypnotic colour than black?” is a question that impulsively arises when we encounter a work by Gabriel J. Shuldiner, who has...
A New York Gallery Field Trip February 2021 – Ilka Scobie
Unlike London, New York galleries are open for business. After my first Covid jab last week, a wave of cautious optimism motivated me to hit the...
Lakwena Maciver: Review-Interview Hastings Contemporary – Revd Jonathan Evens
Born in 1986 to an English mother and a Ugandan father, Lakwena Maciver studied graphic design at the London College of Communications, graduating...
Sean Scully: Geometry as Gesture as Perception – Raphy Sarkissian
A momentous exhibition staged at the Museum of Fine Arts—Hungarian National Gallery in Budapest, “Sean Scully: Passenger—A Retrospective” celebrates...