Reviews
Hastings Contemporary Three New Shows Autumn 2025 – Jude Montague
Michael Landy 'LOOK'; Isabel Rock' Things Fall Apart, The Centre Cannot Hold'; Sophie Barber' Mackerel sky, mackerel sky, never long wet, never long...
Turner Prize 2025: The Good The Bland And The Ugly – Sue Hubbard
According to the Demos-PwC Good Growth for Cities Index 2025, Bradford is designated as the second-worst city to live in in the UK. The dubious...
Kerry James Marshall – Everyday Life As Epic History – RA – Oliver Malin
Kerry James Marshall has quietly glided into the RA on a red eye from Chicago O'Hare. Every blessed visitor who can make a pilgrimage to the holiest...
Theatre Picasso – Performativity of his Art – Tate Modern – Clare Finn
Tate's new Picasso exhibition is not, we are told in the catalogue, "an exhibition that explores the relationship between Picasso and theatre". It...
Steve McQueen: Occupied City Exposes An Unsettled Presence – Rijksmuseum
The Rijksmuseum has devoted its south façade and auditorium to Steve McQueen’s Occupied City, an audacious and urgent work made all the more...
Radical Harmony The Art Of The Dot National Gallery – Sara Faith
Radical Harmony: Helene Kröller-Müller's Neo-Impressionists at the National Gallery is an exhibition about dots in painting. Long before the dot in...
A Choreographic Exhibition By Rambert and (La)Horde Ballet At Southbank – Roberto Ekholm
For four days, Rambert and (La)Horde Ballet National de Marseille take over the Royal Festival Hall (RFH) and Queen Elizabeth Hall (QEH) in a...
Giacometti And Mona Hatoum Linked By Existentialism – Sue Hubbard
It has become a bit of a ‘thing’ to take a significant 20th-century artist and juxtapose their work with that of a contemporary one. Recently,...
Millet Life On The Land National Gallery – Revd Jonathan Evens
The National Gallery’s dossier-style exhibitions have, in recent years, added considerably to the variety and depth of means by which the Gallery...
Andy Goldsworthy Fifty Years Royal Scottish Academy – Clare Henry
Andy Goldsworthy has been hailed as a genius for his mega half-century retrospective, FIFTY, organised by the Scottish National Gallery at the Royal...
Confluences Mark Woods Influences And Dialogues Cross Lane Projects Kendal – Peter Suchin
In curating the Confluences exhibition, Rebecca Scott has deliberately sidestepped the standard artworld trope of the artist as exceptional, but...
Weaving Stories: De La Warr Pavilion And Cecilia Brunson Projects
Textile art, often regarded as a peripheral craft, is currently riding a wave of critical appreciation. After 'Unravel' at the Barbican and Tadek...