Reviews
Cut And Paste: NGS Launches First-Ever Collage Survey Exhibition – Clare Henry
Billed as the first-ever COLLAGE survey exhibition in the world, this Edinburgh Festival fun extravaganza of 400 years of cut and paste art...
Company Curiosities: A Clash of Cultural Objects – Edward Lucie-Smith
I have personal reasons to be interested in this book – Company Curiosities, by Arthur Macgregor. A direct ancestor of mine, not however mentioned...
Helene Schjerfbeck Finland’s Best Kept Secret – Marina Vaizey
Is the Finnish painter Helene Schjerfbeck (1862-1946) the most fascinating artist the anglophone world has never heard of? The fashionable...
Ed Moses Qin Feng Blain|Southern London – Edward Lucie-Smith
The current Ed Moses paintings on display at Blain/Southern represent only a snippet of a very varied career. His presence there is a tribute to a...
Emigrés Who Transformed the British Art World – Marina Vaizey
2019 is the 80th anniversary of the beginning of World War II, which not only led to almost countless millions of deaths but waves of refugees...
Art Exit 1939 – A Very Different Or Analogous Europe – Edward Lucie-Smith
There can be no doubt that Art-Exit: 1939, at the 12 Star Gallery in Europe House, Smith Square, is a highly political exhibition. Though it is...
Charlie Smith London Is 10 – Edward Lucie-Smith
The new show at Charlie Smith London celebrates, as the handout tells you, “a full decade’s operations in Shoreditch”. Within that period, the...
Fact Liverpool: Real Work Two Exhibitions – Alice Lenkiewicz
Liz Magic Laser has created an exhibition on the ground floor of Fact Liverpool as part of Real Work. This is an absorbing show about people working...
Olafur Eliasson: Work That Is Right Here Right Now – Edward Lucie-Smith
Olafur Eliasson is now a very big deal in the world of contemporary art More than this, he counts for something right now, at a time when many...
Talking Maps: Geocentric Eccentricity At The Bodleian Library – Paul Black
Artlyst has attended Talking Maps, a new exhibition at the famous Bodleian Libraries, Oxford - a celebration of maps throughout history - this...
Takis Tate Modern Kevork Mourad Ismaili Centre – Two Shows – Edward Lucie-Smith
The Greek artist Panayiotis Vassillakis, known simply as Takis, born in Athens in 1925, is a very senior member of today’s international...
Frieze Sculpture 2019 A 3D Non-Statement – Edward Lucie-Smith
It’s time for the annual show of sculpture in Regent’s Park, organised by the Frieze Art Fair, but opening far in advance of the fair itself, and...