Reviews
Anish Kapoor Bringing Heaven To Earth – Houghton Hall – James Payne
Anish Kapoor is a magician, says Lord Cholmondeley in his introduction to this exhibition. His ancestral seat, Houghton Hall is presenting the...
Revisiting the Decameron – Flowers Gallery Online – Edward Lucie-Smith
An online show called Revisiting the Decameron, curated by Laura Gascoigne, has recently gone up on the Flowers Gallery web-site. It runs until 9th...
Sean Scully: Rhythm, Restraint, Splendor – Raphy Sarkissian
Painting, sculpture, architecture: here is a triumvirate wherein painting and sculpture remain in commanding dialogue with architecture throughout...
Zoobs Ansari – Elephant West – Edward Lucie-Smith
As this exhibition demonstrates, Zoobs Ansari’s work covers a lot of contemporary themes. On the one hand, there is the experience of the outsider,...
London’s Masterpiece Art Fair Moves Online – Edward Lucie-Smith
The Masterpiece Art Fair, a regular feature of the summer season in London, is now up online and will be available there until 28 June. What's...
Vincent Van Gogh A Durable Art Legend – Two New Books – Edward Lucie-Smith
Two books from Thames & Hudson about Vincent Van Gogh, one of the most durable legends in art. One offers his life-story, as told in letters...
Bryan Robertson Promoter Of New Art – Edward Lucie-Smith
Andrew Lambirth's The Life of Bryan, recently published by Unicorn, describes itself rather demurely as a celebration, rather than as a biography....
BP Portrait Award Survives Online – Edward Lucie-Smith
As the National Portrait Gallery closes its doors, not just in response to the Coronavirus epidemic, but in preparation for a three-year rehab, the...
Photographer Don McCullin Online At Hamiltons – Edward Lucie-Smith
The ways of the art market are pretty strange. Hamiltons, a leading gallery here in London that specialises in photography, have just put a new...
Home Alone Together Twenty Five Artists – Revd Jonathan Evens
Home Alone Together: We are told that home is where the heart is, but also that, while we can travel the world in search of what we need, we must...
Botanical Mind Online: Art, Mysticism and the Cosmic Tree – Revd Jonathan Evens
Spring 2020 was to have been an appropriate season for the launch of one of the Camden Arts Centre’s most ambitious exhibitions to date. The...
The Last Leonardo Art Porn For Millennials – Edward Lucie-Smith
Ben Lewis’s book The Last Leonardo, subtitled ‘A Masterpiece, A Mystery and the Dirty World of Art’, has now appeared in paperback after its...