Reviews
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...
Lynette Yiadom-Boakye Lets The Paint Tell The Story – James Payne
Fly In League With The Night, at Tate Britain, covers Lynette Yiadom-Boakye's work from her graduation in 2003 to the present day, with some...
Cosmic Patches And Quilts Five Exhibitions – Revd Jonathan Evans
‘Here, as in Heaven’ is the title of Ndidi Emefiele’s current exhibition, a body of work representing the artist’s philosophical attempt to...
Billy Childish: The Timeless Present – Neugerriemschneider Berlin – Edward Lucie-Smith
Billy Childish has been around a long time. He is not only an artist but a poet and a composer of music. He was also at one time in the dim long ago...
Tracey Emin / Edvard Munch Exploring The Inner Self – Edward Lucie-Smith
Tracey Emin is one of the two major survivors from the so-called YBA (Young British Artists) Group that made such a lot of noise in the 1990s....
Antony Gormley and Martin Gayford Present Visual Culture Throughout History – Edward Lucie-Smith
The big new Thames & Hudson book Shaping the World, by Antony Gormley and Martin Gayford, turns out to be a good deal better than the truly...
Joseph Wright of Derby A New Book By Matthew Craske – Edward Lucie-Smith
The new book on Joseph Wright of Derby by Matthew Craske is a massive tome. Published by the Paul Mellon Center for British Art, it is entirely...
Maggi Hambling: Powerful Often Sinister Paintings – Edward Lucie-Smith
Now in her mid-70s. Maggi Hambling is a senior figure in British art. She doesn’t have much presence abroad. Foreign museums own very little of her...
Zanele Muholi Explores A Black Queer And Trans South Africa – Sue Hubbard
"I am re-writing a Black Queer and Trans visual history of South Africa for the world to know of our existence, resistance and persistence" - Zanele...
JMW Turner: Narrating A Modern World – Tate Britain – Edward Lucie-Smith
There can be no doubt that the new show devoted to Turner at Tate Britain is a meaty affair. The gallery is fortunate in the fact that a great deal...