Reviews
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 ...
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...