Reviews
Charlotte Salomon: The Holocaust’s Illustrated Epilogue – Ria Higgins
On 7th October 1943, Charlotte Salomon was deported to Auschwitz. She was 26 years old and five months pregnant. She probably died the day she...
Theaster Gates: Racial, Ethnic And Religious Minglings – Alice Lenkiewicz
The exhibition, AMALGAM by Theaster Gates, now showing at Tate Liverpool is an experience not to be missed with a poignant message for our times. A...
Baseera Khan: A Compelling Body Of Work – Isa Freeling
Walking into the Simone Subal Gallery on the lower east side, which was once ironically a hub for immigrants, I am taken aback by the beautiful work...
Nan Goldin: Sirens – Marian Goodman Gallery -Jude Cowan Montague
Nan Goldin is an American photographer who has chronicled her life for art gallery-goers. Her themes include intimacy, moments from an encounter...
Mario Testino: East – Hamiltons – Edward Lucie-Smith
The more top-class photo shows I see, the more depressed I become with the state of contemporary painting. Photography currently has a much broader...
Eco-Visionaries: Moralistic Participation – Edward Lucie-Smith
The Eco-Visionaries show just opened at the Royal Academy, in its new set of galleries (easiest entry via Burlington Gardens) embraces the current...
Vienna’s Spectacular Exhibitions Of Durer, Caravaggio and Bernini – Paul Carter Robinson
Vienna knows how to produce a blockbuster, and this Autumn/Winter season they have mounted two. For the first time in nearly twenty years, a new...
George IV: The Art Of Spectacle – Queen’s Gallery – Edward Lucie-Smith
The Queen’s Gallery, behind Buckingham Palace, is the place where the British Royal Collection Trust displays its treasures. The latest exhibition...
Tessa Traeger – New Art Centre – Roche Court – Sue Hubbard
Fog was rising over the Wiltshire fields and the majestic beeches of Roche Court Sculpture Park dripping with November rain when we arrived for the...
Anselm Kiefer: Everything is connected – Jude Cowan Montague
Anselm Kiefer White Cube, Bermondsey: In this instance, it seems the perfect place for this exhibition. So perfect I felt it was over-designed. The...
Dora Maar: Shedding The Muse Label – Sue Hubbard
In 1998 the first sales of the Dora Maar collection were put on sale in Paris. They revealed a life dedicated to photography, painting and poetry,...
Steve McQueen: Year 3 – Tate Britain – Edward Lucie-Smith
I increasingly get the feeling that the two London Tates are struggling to know what to do with the huge central spaces that are a characteristic...