Reviews
Piranesi Drawings – Neoclassical Visions – Edward Lucie-Smith
This handsome soft-cover catalogue published by Thames & Hudson for the British Museum was intended to commemorate an exhibition that hasn’t in...
Edmund de Waal Books Thousands of Books British Museum – Marina Vaizey
Books! Thousands of books! Written by hundreds of authors from scores of countries, and countries not their own, forced by circumstance,...
Titian: A Pity To Miss – National Gallery – Edward Lucie-Smith
The Titian show at the National Gallery in London has arrived at a particularly inauspicious moment. Major public galleries in Europe are...
Drawn To Another World Alexander Hinks – The Cello Factory
What is this ‘other world’ Alexander Hinks is drawn to and asks that we be drawn into? His current exhibition at ‘The Cello Factory’ spans some four...
Andy Warhol Multiple Identities – Tate Modern – Edward Lucie-Smith
Andy Warhol (1928-1987) has, even since his death more than thirty years ago, retained a central position in the world of contemporary art. As the...
Among The Trees A Sense Of Loss – Edward Lucie-Smith
Among the Trees which just opened at the Hayward Gallery, is an ambitious exhibition that has all the best intentions, and somehow fails to make its...
Aubrey Beardsley: A Sensual Sometimes Erotic Divertissement – Edward Lucie-Smith
As the exhibition catalogue notes, the Beardsley show that just opened at Tate Britain is the first comprehensive survey of his work to have found a...
Young Rembrandt: Influencer Of His Generation – Edward Lucie-Smith
I’ve always liked the exhibitions at the Ashmolean in Oxford. They offer sensible examples of art historical explanation - something that can’t...
David Hockney: Two Major Shows Open In London – Edward Lucie-Smith
As the National Portrait Gallery prepares for its long sleep - three years with its doors firmly shut - it is not surprising to find it playing host...
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...