Reviews
Confluences Mark Woods Influences And Dialogues Cross Lane Projects Kendal – Peter Suchin
In curating the Confluences exhibition, Rebecca Scott has deliberately sidestepped the standard artworld trope of the artist as exceptional, but...
Weaving Stories: De La Warr Pavilion And Cecilia Brunson Projects
Textile art, often regarded as a peripheral craft, is currently riding a wave of critical appreciation. After 'Unravel' at the Barbican and Tadek...
Lubaina Himid With Magda Stawarska Kettle’s Yard – Rev Jonathan Evens
1989 was 'Museums Year' in the United Kingdom, a celebration of our cultural institutions which inspired Lubaina Himid to make a body of work that...
Pablo Bronstein A Stately Visit To Waddesdon Manor – Sara Faith
Pablo Bronstein has created a series of drawings for Waddesdon Manor in Aylesbury, the former home of Baron Ferdinand de Rothschild, which is now in...
Sussex Reflections Pallant House and Ditchling Museum – Claudia Barbieri Childs
Claudia Barbieri Childs visited Pallant House and the Ditchling Museum of Art + Craft in Sussex to see their latest exhibitions. Seeing Each Other:...
Jyll Bradley: Running and Returning The Box Plymouth – Paul Carey-Kent
It’s well worth visiting The Box in Plymouth. You can see interesting local collections, the touring show from Hepworth Wakefield of surrealist...
Sussex Modernism Towner Eastbourne Elegant Pleasurable and Informative – Jude Montague
Sussex Modernism at Towner Eastbourne is a complex show that breaks out of its historical box to include contemporary artists and work, which...
Time for Trees A Time For Growing London Summer Exhibitions – Nico Kos Earle
"A society grows great when old men plant trees under whose shade they know they shall not sit." - Greek Proverb When Marina Tabassum's architects...
Jenny Saville Excavating The Feminine NPG – Sooz Belnavis-Abbott
When I walked into Jenny Saville's exhibition, The Anatomy of Painting, this morning, my face split into a grin. I didn't expect to see old friends....
Edward Burra And Ithell Colquhoun Bring Joy To Tate Britain – Sophie Parkin
Edward Burra and Ithell Colquhoun were both Surrealists, which makes you understand their twinning at Tate Britain from earlier provincial shows:...
London Gallery Weekend: A Snapshot of some favourite shows – Nico Kos Earle
For 72 hours, London's art scene became one vast, twitching organism. From Mayfair's white spaces to Peckham's railway arches dripping with...
RA Summer Exhibition: An Annual Artistic Ephemeral Jamboree – Oliver Malin
Another Annus Mirabilis, Another RA Summer Exhibition, No 258, which all kicked off in 1769, the year of Napoleon Bonaparte's birth, so it's always...