Reviews
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...
Navigating Downtown NYC Galleries During A Pandemic Autumn 2020 – Ilka Scobie
As museums and galleries open to eager viewers, I took the easy way out and have only ventured to walking distance galleries. Luckily, this limited...
Bruce Nauman, Damien’s New Show And Painter Mark Edwards – London Autumn Exhibitions – Edward Lucie-Smith
In the midst of the chaos in the London art world caused by the current pandemic an artist occasionally shows up who seems serenely separated from...
Everyday Heroes: Southbank Exhibition Celebrates Low-paid Key Workers
How to celebrate the continuing vital and sacrificial contribution of key workers during the Covid-19 pandemic? Clap for Carers united the nation...