28 March 2012
British Design Celebrated At V&A For Olympics REVIEW
With the eyes of the world upon us for London 2012, the V&A celebrates all things British 2012 is Britain’s year. With the...
Reviews
27 March 2012
Gillian Wearing At Whitechapel Gallery REVIEW
Gillian Wearing finally gets the major survey exhibition she deserves It was long ago that Gillian Wearing won the Turner Prize (1997). And a...
24 March 2012
Ultimate Guide To Pick Me Up Graphic Art Fair
Alice Lubbock provides the lowdown on this year’s smorgasbord of screenprints and oddball characters Somerset House is the unlikely host of an even unlikelier...
20 March 2012
London Art Exhibitions Hoxton Gallery Reviews – March 2012
Reviews of current exhibitions in the Hoxton area By Beatrix-Blaise Jacot It’s a beautiful day; and what’s more glorious to do on a beautiful...
16 March 2012
London Art Exhibitions Cork Street Reviews – March 2012
Latest Reviews of exhibitions in the Cork Street Area By Matilda Lawrence-Jubb The Cork Street area is, as ever, alive with art, with many...
16 March 2012
Mark Storor A Tender Subject REVIEW
We step behind the veil of secrecy to discover Artangel’s latest commission, exploring experiences of gay prisoners Artangel commissions are getting harder and harder...
13 March 2012
Astrid Svangren At Maria Stenfors REVIEW
Astrid Svangren: A Longing For The Bestowed… @ Maria Stenfors – REVIEW Astrid Svangren presents seven works in her mouthful of an exhibition at...
12 March 2012
Santo Tolone Reveals Power Of Three At Limoncello
Santo Tolone: Three Times Once @ Limoncello – REVIEW In Three Times Once, Limoncello presents not only the first solo UK show of Italian...
8 March 2012
Thomas Ruff Takes Gagosian Out Of This World
Thomas Ruff: ma.r.s. and nudes @ Gagosian Gallery – REVIEW The two exhibitions at the London Gagosian galleries consist entirely of photographs. But to...
8 March 2012
Gilbert & George Lament London Horrors At White Cube
Gilbert & George: London Pictures @ White Cube – REVIEW This week White Cube bedecks the world with the largest series ever made by...
6 March 2012
Serpentine Takes A Trip Down The Edgware Road
On The Edgware Road @ Serpentine Gallery – REVIEW This exhibition is the visual manifestation of work conducted under the aegis of the Edgware...
5 March 2012
Tracing Lines of Thought At Parasol Unit
Lines of Thought @ Parasol Unit – REVIEW ‘Lines of Thought’ is the current exhibition at Parasol Unit (that beautiful space in Angel with...
2 March 2012
Lost For (Weighted) Words At Zabludowicz
Weighted Words @ Zabludowicz Collection – REVIEW I have always been wary about the use of words in art. This philosophy follows the logic...
28 February 2012
Best New York Art Exhibitions Reviewed
Beatrix-Blaise Jacot takes a trip to Uptown 57th street, and gives the lowdown on what’s hot right now… A recent visit to New York...
27 February 2012
Alighiero Boetti Plays The Game At Tate Modern
Alighiero Boetti: Game Plan @ Tate Modern – REVIEW Amid the flurry of spectacular publicity for the psychedelic hyped-up hyper show that is the...
27 February 2012
Lucian Freud More Intimately Revealed At Blain Southern
Lucian Freud: Drawings @ Blain/Southern – REVIEW ‘Everything is autobiographical. Everything is a portrait’ Freud claimed of his own work. Yet the National Portrait...
23 February 2012
Explaining The Fourth Plinth Rocking Horse
New Fourth Plinth sculpture by Elmgreen & Dragset unveiled today by Joanna Lumley; but what does it all mean? The new artwork to...
22 February 2012
Seeing Inside Yayoi Kusama At Victoria Miro
Yayoi Kusama: New Paintings @ Victoria Miro – REVIEW To coincide with the major retrospective of Yayoi Kusama’s work currently showing at Tate Modern,...
21 February 2012
Jeremy Deller Rejoices In People At Hayward
Jeremy Deller: Joy in People @ Hayward Gallery – REVIEW Joy in People is the world’s first retrospective of Turner Prize winner Jeremy Deller...
17 February 2012
Rupert Goldsworthy & Mark Stewart Naturally Collaborative Counter-Cultural Figures
Paul Carey-Kent Reviews ‘I AM THE LAW’ at Ritter/Zamet, London: 18 Jan – 31 March 2012 This show brings together two naturally collaborative counter-cultural...
15 February 2012
Mondrian And Nicholson Square Up At Courtauld
Mondrian//Nicholson: In Parallel @ Courtauld Gallery – REVIEW The two modernist painters Piet Mondrian – one of world’s most celebrated 20th century artists –,...
13 February 2012
Tate Picasso Exhibition Gives Us Moore
Picasso & Modern British Art @ Tate Britain – REVIEW It pays to be a little wary of the ‘[artist] and [category].’ exhibition format,...
9 February 2012
Curators Of The Future Stage Major Courtauld Exhibition
East Wing X: Material Matters @ Courtauld Institute of Art – REVIEW Every other year, coming on for two decades, the Courtauld Institute of...
8 February 2012
Lucian Freud Bares All At National Portrait Gallery
Blockbuster Lucian Freud Portraits exhibition opens at the National Portrait Gallery, tracing a life-time’s encounter with human flesh The press view for Lucian Freud’s exhibition...
7 February 2012
Spotting Yayoi Kusama At Tate Modern Retrospective
Major retrospective for Yayoi Kusama at Tate Modern reveals fundamental continuity behind the dazzling diversity of a six decade career ‘This is the press...
6 February 2012
Take A Chance On James Ferris At Limoncello
James Ferris: 5050 @ Limoncello – INTERVIEW & REVIEW So here’s a novel idea: an exhibition of 100 paintings, with the first work to...
3 February 2012
Could Online VIP Art Fair Ever Replace Real Thing?
The VIP Art Fair – the the world’s first exclusively online art fair – opens to the public today: but is it a viable...
2 February 2012
The Body In Women’s Art Now At Rollo
The Body in Women’s Art Now: Part 3 – ReCreation @ Rollo Contemporary – REVIEW Contemporary artists have been rather slow on the up-take...
31 January 2012
David Shrigley Inspires Brain Activity At Hayward
REVIEW – David Shrigley’s major new exhibition Brain Activity reveals depth beneath the one-liner Turns out, I had David Shrigley all wrong. No...
30 January 2012
Tate Explores Role Of Migrations In British Art
Tate Britain’s Migrations brings together an engaging collection of works from over a period of 500 years, but lacks real coherence Migrations is a...
27 January 2012
JMW Turner Braves The Elements In Margate
Turner and the Elements exhibition arrives at Margate’s Turner Contemporary, and reminds us of the literal truth in the expression; ‘Turner was a painter...