Reviews
Grassroots Renaissance: Artist-Run Spaces Breathe Life Into Rural Culture
As the UK art world reels from the closures of major commercial galleries like Pace, Almine Rech, and Marlborough, an imaginative grassroots revival...
The Most Original Show of Frieze Week? Eric Butcher ‘Shadow Archive’ – Paul Carey-Kent
There are plenty of impressive shows timed to coincide with Frieze[i]. Still, I haven't seen Eric Butcher featured in highlights lists, even though...
Frieze Masters 2025: The Best Of The Best – Sue Hubbard
It’s the season of mists and mellow fruitfulness.. The leaves are turning and the nights are drawing in. It must be time for Frieze. This year, I...
Can We Stop Killing Each Other? – Sainsbury Centre – Revd Jonathan Evens
‘Can We Stop Killing Each Other?’ is, in the words of Jago Cooper, Executive Director of The Sainsbury Centre, a “wide-ranging exploration of human...
The World Of Dermot O’Brien – Not Only But Also – James Payne
Dermot O'Brien (Not Only) But Also is one of the strongest shows I've seen in London for quite some time. O'Brien is an Irish artist who has chased...
Gilbert & George: The Gospel According To Men In Suits – Hayward Gallery
The Hayward Gallery opens its Autumn season with a bang: Gilbert & George: 21st Century Pictures, a panoramic and sometimes immersive survey of...
The Daring Lee Miller From It Girl To War Photographer – Sue Hubbard
Last night I went to see the play at Finsbury Park Theatre about that other Lee: Lee Krasner, the painter-wife of Jackson Pollock. The central theme...
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...