Reviews
Bartolome Bermejo And The Paper Museum – Two Free Exhibitions – Edward Lucie-Smith
Once again the National Gallery offers a small, free, finely crafted show devoted to an Old Master painter that few people will know much – or...
Oscar Murillo A Cultural Hero Of Sorts – Edward Lucie-Smith
I’ve just read a piece on the web complaining that the one area of the contemporary art world where gender equality is making no progress is in the...
Francis Bacon – The Power Of The Illicit – Edward Lucie-Smith
The new Francis Bacon show at Gagosian Grosvenor Hill is something of a landmark event. It contains a sumptuous array of top-quality works. Only a...
Keith Tyson – Enrique Martínez Celaya Two London Shows – Edward Lucie-Smith
If you want to take the temperature of the London art world, here are two places to do so. One is the show for Keith Tyson, at Hauser & Wirth....
Faith Ringgold and Luchita Hurtado – Two Women Artists Of A Certain Age
I was looking at the tapestries with painted and sewn figures, the colourful designs of pioneering activist and artist Faith Ringgold when I heard a...
Lee Krasner Abstract Expressionist – The Barbican – Edward Lucie Smith
The catch-up continues: two more female artists, from different phases of the now safely defunct Modern Movement, are now being given their due....
Frank Bowling: In The Presence Of A Significant Painter – Sue Hubbard
It’s rare to walk into an exhibition and be bowled over (forgive the pun). To encounter work that touches the heart as well as the mind in these...
Four London Art Exhibitions To See – June 2019 – Edward Lucie-Smith
London's posher Art galleries offer exhibitions of all kinds right now, but they tend to have a slightly depressing characteristic in common. The...
Manga: Masterpieces Of Narrative Art – British Museum – Edward Lucie-Smith
It is bold of the British Museum to embark on an exhibition of Japanese Manga in their most significant and grandest temporary exhibition space –...
Vicky Crowe: 50 Years Of Painting – Clare Henry
Venice, the Pentland Hills, Prince Charles?" They may not have a lot in common, but all have provided Vicky Crowe with significant inspiration. They...
Anish Kapoor: Splashing Bloody Wombs And One Penis – Jude Cowan Montague
I can't see an Anish Kapoor exhibition at the moment. I can't talk about Anish Kapoor at the moment. Not without the first thing on my mind being...
Leonardo Da Vinci A Man Of Seductive Charm – Edward Lucie-Smith
This will be a great year of Leonardo celebrations because 2019 marks five centuries since the great artist died and Leonardo is now one of the...