Reviews
Masculinities: An Extremely Interesting, Timely Event – Edward Lucie-Smith
After a plethora of exhibitions featuring women, women’s art, women’s attitudes of the world, it comes as a relief to find a big London show that is...
Los Angeles Gallery Visit February 2020 – Edward Lucie-Smith
I am just back from a quick trip to Los Angeles, which gave me a lot to consider - chiefly about how different the LA art world is from the one we...
Caravaggio / Bernini: Baroque Wonderment Vivacity And Horror – Sue Hubbard
Most great artistic movements begin as a reaction to the art and times that precede them. Impressionism in the 19th century. Surrealism, Dadaism and...
British Baroque: Vintage National Triumphalism – Tate Britain – Edward Lucie Smith
Entering the new British Baroque show (as one does) from Tate Britain’s central upstairs space, currently, home to a multitude of group photographs...
Brandt And Moore: A Shared British Vision – Hepworth Wakefield – Sara Faith
A new exhibition at the Hepworth Wakefield features two very British artists with crossover interests. The photographer Bill Brandt (1904-1983) and...
Radical Figures: A New Art Movement? – Edward Lucie-Smith
The rather splendid show of new figurative painting, now on view at the Whitechapel Art Gallery, boasts that it is the first event of its kind since...
Fugitive Artists Display Powerful Images At Turner Contemporary
'We Will Walk—Art and Resistance in the American South' is one of the most powerful and important shows I've seen. It is co-curated by the artist...
Rose Wylie: Harnessing A Rebellious Energy – Paul Carter Robinson
Rose Wylie has become one of the leading British contemporary artists of her generation. In the last decade, her work has come to the forefront both...
American Pastoral Art Celebrated In New London Show – Edward Lucie-Smith
The new American Pastoral exhibition at Gagosian’s Britannia Street space is of museum quality, even if what’s on show doesn’t always seem to relate...
Picasso Exhibition Triumphs With Rarely Seen Works On Paper – Edward Lucie-Smith
Wow! This show is a real blockbuster! Spread out in the main exhibition galleries of the Royal Academy. It gives an excellent idea of who Picasso...
West End Gallery Mixed Bag – Edward Lucie-Smith
The West End art world is coming sluggishly to life and some early offerings are, it must be said, a bit disappointing. Gagosian Cork Street leads...
New York Gallery Walkabout Winter 2020 – Ilka Scobie
Ilka Scobie takes a look at the first New York exhibitions for 2020 and discovers a few surprises along the way. Abortion Is Normal Eva Presenhuber ...