Reviews
Bridget Riley, Rebecca Parker, Elizabeth Peyton Three London Shows – Edward Lucie-Smith
Two exhibitions of modest size – Bridget Riley at Lindsey Ingram, and Rebecca Parker at Huxley-Parlour – both at the very centre of the West End art...
Mark Bradford: Monumental Excavations Of Humanity Hauser & Wirth – Sooz Belnavis
I am a painter, and as a painter, I tend to look at other painters work, under the scrutiny of deciphering the surface, the pictorial plane. The...
Gauguin Not A Role Model For Our Time – Edward Lucie-Smith
Gauguin both is and isn't a hero for our time. In one sense it's brave of the National Gallery to mount a big show of his work in the /MeToo era....
Mona Hatoum: Emotional Formalism – Jude Cowan Montague
Burnt-out domesticity. Chicken-wire with burnt-black wood wedged inside in the shape of the chair. The absence of the people who populated the...
Do The Undone: John Giorno at Sperone Westwater – Ilka Scobie
“I had an idea in the late sixties, like putting my poems on matchboxes. I wanted to do poems on marble. I was a poet, but not in the art world....
Amy Sherald: The Heart of the Matter – Hauser & Wirth NY – Ilka Scobie
“I want to be my own connection to America,” Amy Sherald tells the rapt audience, at her spectacular inaugural show at Hauser & Wirth. The...
Mark Leckey: The Power of Bleakness – Tate Britain – Edward Lucie-Smith
Having just opened an exhibition devoted to the work of William Blake, who is, for all his eccentricities, a representation of art as we used to...
Yassine Balbzioui – James Ostrer – Kristin Hjellegjerde London – Jude Cowan Montague
Yassine Balbzioui/James Ostrer - Kristin Hjellegjerde London: Masked figures in balaclava style hats, only their eyes visible peer directly at the...
Damien Hirst Butterfly Genocide – White Cube – Edward Lucie-Smith
Damien Hirst’s show Mandalas, at White Cube Mason’s Yard, has already attracted indignant commentary in The Times. Rachel Campbell-Johnson’s review,...
Maurizio Cattelan: Broken Plumbing And Leaky Democracy – Blenheim Palace – Paul Black
Maurizio Cattelan's 'Victory is Not an Option' is a perfectly timed exhibition that parodies Britain's long slide into populist self-destruction....
Antony Gormley Plays With Our Perception of Space at RA
The Antony Gormley solo exhibition at the Royal Academy of Arts opens on 21 September. It's a solo show rather than a retrospective but covers work...
Blockbuster Rego, Freud And Murillo Books Released Autumn 2019 – Edward Lucie-Smith
A short time ago, it seemed as if making and publishing books about art – contemporary art, in particular, was a doomed enterprise. Everything of...