Reviews
Critics’ Choice: Best UK Art Exhibitions 2025 – Artlyst
Looking back at 2025, the standout UK Art Exhibitions show that there wasn’t a single aesthetic or tidy narrative linking everything together. This...
Bury Street Sees Art History In The Making – Sarah Lucas And Maggi Hambling – Nico Kos Earle
If you walk past The Ritz and take a right down St James, left on Jermyn Street, and right again, you will find yourself in Bury Street, the nexus...
Fry Unfurls in Firle – Roger Fry Charleston – John K Grande
What more fitting venue for this Roger Fry show than the Bloomsbury aquarium at Charleston? The show gives Roger Fry his due as an artist. As...
Sean Scully Weaving Things Back Together Kerlin Gallery – Miranda Carroll
A number of exhibitions mark Sean Scully’s 80th birthday this year, including the just-opened Tapestry, at Kerlin Gallery in his hometown of Dublin,...
William Nicholson From Ordinary To Famous And Back Again Pallant House – John K Grande
At the first UK exhibition dedicated solely to William Nicholson since 2004, one witnesses his range, incredible artistic scale, and skill....
Turner And Constable Reinventing Landscape Painting Tate Britain – John K Grande
To celebrate the 250th anniversaries of John Constable and J.M.W. Turner's births, Tate Britain presents these two titans of the British landscape...
Jane Bown Photographer And Newspaper Woman Newlands House Gallery – Claudia Barbieri
Jane Bown liked to say that other photographers took pictures; she found them. Employed on the staff of the Sunday newspaper, The Observer, for...
The Long Now – Saatchi Gallery At Forty
There’s a certain irony in calling an exhibition The Long Now when its host, Saatchi Gallery, has built its reputation on immediacy on the shock of...
Standing Firm In Power And Pride: Windrush Generation Black History Month Exhibition At Westfield Stratford City – Lee Sharrock
A colourful celebration of heritage, resilience, and unity, the Windrush Generation Black History Month exhibition at several locations, including...
Into Abstraction Meaning Connection And Hope Firstsite – Revd Jonathan Evens
Sally Shaw MBE, Director of Firstsite, says: “Into Abstraction: Modern British Art and the Landscape offers a powerful way to view 20th-century...
Wayne Thiebaud: American Still Life – Courtauld Gallery – John K. Grande
Wayne Thiebaud’s first-ever solo exhibition in London at the Courtauld Gallery is a long-awaited event. As an artist, Thiebaud resented being thrown...
Peter Doig House of Music Serpentine South – Sue Hubbard
Peter Doig is one of those painters loved by the public and the cognoscenti alike. His vivid palette and the magic realism of paintings like White...