Reviews
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...
Made in USA Ed Ruscha An American Perspective – Revd Jonathan Evens
As a focal point for the oil industry in the US, Oklahoma is associated with roads (Route 66), cars and gasoline. All these feature significantly in...
Robert Smithson: The Archetypal Nature Of Things – Revd Jonathan Evens
Where does one begin when exploring the oeuvre of Robert Smithson? As an autodidact, his interests in travel, cartography, geology, architectural...
Aliza Nisenbaum: Portraits That Subvert Traditions – Tate Liverpool Alice Lenkiewicz
Aliza Nisenbaum is a painter, living and working in New York. Describing herself as torn between wanting to be a social worker or a painter, she has...