Lunar Lullabies, David Lock and Concrete Dreams Three Shows To See At Firstsite
‘Lunar Lullabies’ is an exemplary exhibition that showcases inspiration, design, community engagement, and accessibility.
19 June 2024
Archives: Reviews
Mark James A Syncopated Collection Of New Works – James Payne
Mark James is a British filmmaker known for his 1993 documentary FREEZE, the first TV documentary made about that iconic show, as well as his film on Carle Andre, “Upholding the Bricks”, and other films about artists, architects and musicians.
17 June 2024
Japanese Art: Three UK Exhibitions Explore A Multitude Of Work – Claudia Barbieri
Japanese art is having its time in the sun, with three British galleries putting on summer shows that illustrate the variety and adaptability of the country’s woodblock printing tradition.
10 June 2024
Tan Ping: Art On The Edge Rothko Museum Latvia – Philip Dodd
Mark Rothko was born in Dvinsk, on the main St Petersburg to Warsaw railway line, when the city was part of the Russian Empire…
9 June 2024
Judy Chicago Feminist Trailblazer Serpentine Gallery – Sue Hubbard
Fifty years after The Dinner Party, Judy Chicago has a major retrospective at Serpentine North entitled Revelations. The name of the exhibition is taken from an illuminated manuscript Chicago created in the early 1970s whilst simultaneously working on The Dinner Party.
3 June 2024
Beatriz Milhazes: ‘Maresias’ Tate St Ives – Lee Sharrock
Brazilian artist Beatriz Milhazes draws inspiration from the sea and nature of Rio de Janeiro. Maresias, her new exhibition at Tate…
1 June 2024
Discovering Degas Burrell Collection Glasgow – Clare Henry
I was blown away by the Burrell Collection’s new Degas show! Fifty works, half bought by Burrell and half loans, are beautifully installed in the new basement exhibition space.
30 May 2024
Stanza: Nancy Cadogan Explores Two Decades Of Painting On Lake Como
I have come to Bellagio for the opening of STANZA, an exhibition drawn from Lake Como by Nancy Cadogan. I have come here for the pigments and I have come here for the lake.
22 May 2024
St Leonards And Beyond E. Sussex Round Up Spring 2024 – Paul Carey Kent
St Leonards – the town I grew up in – has become a fashionable place, a trend accelerated by the pandemic. Consistent with that is a flourishing art scene…
21 May 2024
Ten Of The Best From Photo London 2024 – Nico Kos-Earle
This is the ninth edition of Photo London and perhaps the most exciting edition of the Fair to date, showcasing over 120 global exhibitors alongside a series of major special exhibitions.
18 May 2024
New York’s Independent Art Fair 2024 by Ilka Scobie
Independent, one of New York’s favourite annual art fairs, featured over 172 artists. The invitation-only fair included 15 X 15, curated by founders Elizabeth Dee and Matthew Higgs.
16 May 2024
Now You See Us Women Artists in Britain 1520-1920 Tate Britain – Sue Hubbard
The title of this show of British women artists from 1520-1920 at Tate Britain is highly apt. ‘Now You See Us’ contains just the right amount of ironic sang-froid
16 May 2024
Venice Biennale 2024 – From Inside A Women’s Prison – Pavilion Of The Holy See – James Payne
The most coveted ticket at this year’s Venice Biennale was entry to the Giudecca women’s prison on an island in the lagoon, which dates back to the 13th century and was once a reformatory for prostitutes and unwed mothers.
1 May 2024
Tate Expressionists Exhibition Reveals Spirituality and Past Gender Disparity – Revd Jonathan Evens
Expressionists: Kandinsky, Münter and the Blue Rider, the focus of the current exhibition at Tate Modern, demonstrates the breadth of the group’s engagement in terms of transnational relationships
29 April 2024
The Ultimate Venice Biennale Collateral Events 2024 – Lee Sharrock
Adriano Pedrosa, Curator of the 60th Venice Biennale, chose the controversial phrase Stranieri Ovunque (Foreigners Everywhere).
24 April 2024
60th Venice Biennale Twelve Essential Highlights – Nico Kos Earle
Brazilian curator Adriano Pedrosa proposed the title for the 60th Edition of La Biennale di Venezia. ‘Foreigners Everywhere’.
23 April 2024
Foreigners Merge Giardini 60th Venice Biennale – James Payne
The Central Pavilion at the Venice Biennale’s 60th edition is led by curator Adriano Pedrosa, who uses the theme “Stranieri Ovunque – Foreigners Everywhere,”
22 April 2024
The Last Caravaggio National Gallery – Revd Jonathan Evens
Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio, as both a revolutionary artist and a violent individual in a violent age, divides eras and opinions.
22 April 2024
Yinka Shonibare CBE: Suspended States And Decolonialised Structures – Serpentine – Sue Hubbard
Yinka Shonibare Suspended States Serpentine Galleries: When I was a small child – many millennia ago – much of the world map was pink.
21 April 2024
Antony Gormley: Time Horizon A Bond Between Humanity And Nature – Houghton Hall
Houghton Hall, Norfolk, is one of the most beautiful places in the world for a sculpture park. The 18th-century estate gleams in perfect symmetry
14 April 2024
Juliet Margaret Cameron and Francesca Woodman Photographic Storytelling – Sue Hubbard
As much seems to divide the photographers Juliet Margaret Cameron and Francesca Woodman as unites them.
2 April 2024
Yoko Ono: 70 Years Of Peace, Love And Understanding – Albertina Campbell
Yoko Ono walked so that Marina Abramović could run when she and her brother Keisuke looked up at the sky on empty stomachs and imagined menus with their minds…
20 March 2024
Elias Sime Transforms The Commonplace Hastings Contemporary – Jude Montague
Elias Sime is one of the best-known artists of his generation from Ethiopia. He was born in Addis Ababa and is a graduate of the Alle School of Fine Arts and Design. His work of collage and sculptural assemblage from found materials
18 March 2024
Whitney Biennial 2024: Is This The Real Thing – Ilka Scobie
Curated by Chrissie Illes and Meg Onli, the 81st incarnation of America’s longest-running survey show…
18 March 2024
Desert X: Respect In The Presence of Absence – Leila Lebreton
In this awe-inspiring landscape, the Third Edition of Desert X AlUla, titled In The Presence of Absence and co-curated by Maya El-Khalil
13 March 2024
Issam Kourbaj Kettle’s Yard And Heong Gallery Cambridge – Revd Jonathan Evens
Issam Kourbaj: Urgent Archive at Kettle’s Yard, with its concurrent exhibition ‘You are not you, and home is not home’ at Heong Gallery, is the largest solo exhibition to date by Cambridge-based Issam Kourbaj.
12 March 2024
Reframing The Black Figure – National Portrait Gallery – Albertina Campbell
Five years ago, curator and writer Ekow Eshun embarked on a mission to formulate a new narrative from the Black perspective for a 21st-century audience.
12 March 2024
John Singer Sargent: A Dedicated Follower Of Fashion – Nico Kos-Earle
In 1881, the artist John Singer Sargent was commissioned to paint his first large portrait of a male subject, the charismatic Parisian surgeon Dr Samuel-Jean Pozzi.
7 March 2024
Frans Hals: A Golden Age Dutch Master Returns – Nico Kos-Earle
Hals’ paintings have an incisive immediacy – of something captured in the moment. To achieve this, one not only needs virtuosity of talent – for the hand to capture what the eye has seen…
26 February 2024
Barbara Kruger: Complex Mechanisms Of Power Gender And Class – Nico Kos-Earle
En route to the Serpentine in Kensington Gardens, a black and white taxi blurs past me, drawing my gaze along Exhibition Road. I glimpse the words YOU, ME, YOU in bold capitals…
15 February 2024
Art Flourishes at GSA Despite Mackintosh Building Veiled in Plastic – Clare Henry
It’s a long time since I braved a visit to (GSA) Glasgow School of Art. Since the two tragic fires, a nightmare-burnt edifice covered in scaffolding and now shrouded in a white veil of plastic…
13 February 2024
Frank Auerbach Intimate And Intense Charcoal Drawings Courtauld Gallery – Sue Hubbard
The exhibition at the Courtauld focuses on a small group of pioneering charcoal drawings produced by Frank Auerbach in the 1950s and 1960s.
13 February 2024