Reviews
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...
Three London Shows November 2019 – Edward Lucie-Smith
As the nation plunges towards Brexit, and, as the official galleries - specifically the two big London Tates - grow more and more self-satisfied and...
Taylor Wessing Portrait Prize 2019 Returns To NPG – Edward Lucie-Smith
The Taylor Wessing Portrait Prize has come round once again, just as the announcement went out that the NPG will very soon close its doors for a...
You Feel Me: A Place Without Division – FACT Liverpool – Alice Lenkiewicz
I found this exhibition thought-provoking. It challenges the way we view the world and what we are being taught to believe. It encourages you to...
Bridget Riley: Dynamic Interactions And Optical Wizardry – Edward Lucie-Smith
At a time when there is a continual fuss about giving ‘fair representation’ to women artists, many of whom were not, in fact, central to the major...
Lucian Freud / Antony Gormley Two RA Autumn Shows – Edward Lucie-Smith
Lucian Freud / Antony Gormley, two shows at the RA, both by contemporary British artists. Apparently very different from one another, yet with one...
Nam June Paik Outstripped By Technology Tate Modern – Edward Lucie-Smith
Nam June Paik (1932-2006) was a Korean-born artist who lived and worked in Japan, Germany and the United States. He played a considerable role in...
