Reviews
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...
William Blake: Personal Realms Of Fantasy – Edward Lucie-Smith
William Blake is one of the heroes of British art. In some ways, however, his work fits uncomfortably into the current establishment set up. If one...
Peter Doig and Parisian Avant-Gardists Launch London Autumn Gallery Season – Edward Lucie Smith
Two exhibitions just opened at a pair of well-respected West End commercial galleries here in London, seem to illustrate the complexity of the...
Urban Impulses Latin American Photography The Photographers’ Gallery London – Edward Lucie-Smith
Urban Impulses, the new exhibition at The Photographers’ Gallery here in London, exemplifies the reasons why contemporary photography now so often...