Reviews
Paula Rego Where The Personal Is Political – Marina Vaizey
All art is perforce autobiography, and every picture tells a story. How could it be otherwise? No outstanding artist almost literally makes visual...
Natalia Goncharova: Luboks, Icons And Russian Avant-Gardism – Edward Lucie-Smith
Born in 1881, Natalia Goncharova was a full generation older than Lee Krasner and came from a very different background from that of Krasner’s...
Gender Fluidity Celebrated In New Hayward Gallery Exhibition – Teo Robinson
Kiss My Genders at the Hayward Gallery curated by Vincent Honore is a dynamic voyage and vivacious celebration of infinite representations of...
Keith Haring: A Sign Of The Times – Tate Liverpool – Alice Lenkiewicz
The highly anticipated first UK exhibition of Keith Haring's work has opened at Tate Liverpool. It is vast, covering most aspects of his work and...
Mark Dean Mediating Between Creation And Creator – Revd Jonathan Evens
In his book, God in the Gallery: A Christian Approach to Modern Art Daniel Siedell suggests that many works of modern and contemporary art are...
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...