With major as well as offbeat art fairs, ranging from the Armory at the massive Javits Center (where I last went for my Covid vaccination) to tiny storefronts selling transgressive signage
19 September 2021
Held every year since the Summer Exhibition is the world’s oldest submission exhibition with works selected and hung by Academicians.
16 September 2021
Periodic reviews of exhibitions around the globe can highlight a range of work in a range of styles in many different galleries.
16 September 2021
James Payne reviews the new film “The Lost Leonardo” directed by Andreas Koefed and encounters a thrilling journey through the murky world of art.
4 September 2021
James Payne explores the curious world of Mark Woods in his exhibition Absorption at Cross Lane Projects, Kendal.
27 August 2021
Aged 21, after just one week, Roger Cecil walked away from his scholarship at the Royal College of Art to make art on his own terms at home in Abertillery.
17 August 2021
The female participant in Tino Sehgal’s ‘Kiss’ is stretched out on the floor, head arched, looking back, as her partner moves in slow motion
13 August 2021
Lucian Freud – Real Lives is the first exhibition of his work in the North West for thirty years. Widely regarded as a master of modern…
26 July 2021
Edge to Edge features artists who use hard edges of some kind in their work but who are not necessarily defined by them. Simon Streather takes a closer look at the artists in this show.
26 July 2021
Meek Gichugu’s No Erotic Them Say, included in this show, traumatised the imagination of Michael Armitage as a child.
20 July 2021
The Australian modernist Sidney Nolan was among those responding in this way, but his responses have remained unseen and unappreciated within his archive until very recently.
11 July 2021
Paula Rego (b 1935) is an artist who is vividly expressive and imaginative in her use of colour deployed in the service of brilliantly choreographed compositions.
8 July 2021
The dust-jacket of this handsome new book proclaims that ‘Judy Chicago is America’s most dynamic living artist’.
6 July 2021
Late, as often can be the case with our timetable, we arrived at Bridge Point Rye creative arts centre at a deserted exhibition.
3 July 2021
Rachel Kneebone, “I am excited and delighted to be showing 399 Days in the YSP Chapel, a space that resonates in a special way with my work
28 June 2021
Seventy exhibitions and events from over 100 artists. Sounds a lot? Yet, the overall result of GI is disappointingly thin. Today’s restrictions don’t help.
24 June 2021
Few in the West will have been to Tehran. We are either likely to think of an exotic Persia full of sultans and hareems
11 June 2021
Looking back on her work, Hepworth identified three important sculptural forms to which she continually returned.
9 June 2021
To stage a major Rodin exhibition in 2021, the 700th anniversary of the death of Dante is particularly appropriate …
9 June 2021
Jude Cowan Montague explores Seaside Modern: Art and Life on the Beach at Hastings Contemporary.
3 June 2021
David Hockney is, for a variety of reasons, a British National Treasure. Why? It is stunningly evident in the special exhibition of paintings done last year, which explores, sequentially, the arrival of spring unfurling over three months in his four-acre garden in rural France.
27 May 2021
As a new young arts writer, I once went to Eileen Agar’s flat in Kensington. I honestly didn’t know who she was at that time. The flat was quite conventional, except for a few collages on the walls and her famous Bouillabaisse hat – constructed of cork and decorated with a large orange plastic flower, a blue plastic star, assorted shells, glass beads and starfish – sitting on a stand.
24 May 2021
James Payne embraces the end of silence after months of lockdown in two new exhibitions: Ryoji Ikeda at 180 The Strand and Matthew Barney at the Hayward Gallery.
20 May 2021
The exhibition ‘Model Maquette’ arrives in a protracted time of pandemic fright, a time when most people’s worlds have literally shrunk. Suggestions of either imaginative flight or claustrophobia become all the more poignant.
16 May 2021
Tony Cragg is the latest artist to be featured in the magnificent grounds of Houghton Hall, Norfolk this Spring and Summer.
12 May 2021
Skarstedt’s fascinating new exhibition Painter / Sculptor brings together a sculpture and a painting by nine artists who says the gallery, ‘have mastered both painting and sculpture.
4 May 2021
Archie Brennan was a creative genius and pioneer who transformed tapestry from a method of slavish, rigid reproduction, replication and restriction into one of innovation, imagination, immediacy and wit.
25 April 2021
The Gagosian Gallery on Grosvenor Hill is a subtly magnificent slab of grey. particularly appropriate for the art of Rachel Whiteread.
21 April 2021
Art created during a crisis can be a powerful catharsis for both artist and audience. P.P.O.W presents two artists.
20 April 2021
Paul Carey-Kent is back on the London Gallery trail with some exciting offerings for April and May this Spring.
15 April 2021
Sean Scully has created new works for this exhibition in the world in which we currently live, with ‘the existential threat from COVID
4 April 2021
The underlying momentum of this remarkable and provocatively thoughtful book, The Art Museum in Modern Times by Charles Saumarez Smith
28 March 2021
