Reviews
Artificial Intelligence More Than Human – Barbican – Edward Lucie-Smith
Right now, the Curve Gallery at the Barbican has a big show entitled More Than Human that seems exceptionally relevant, not so much to what is...
Piero Manzoni The grid And Everyday Materials – Ilka Scobie
Self-taught artist and avant-garde predecessor to the Arte Povera movement, Piero Manzoni was born to an aristocratic family in Soncino, Italy in...
Cathy Wilkes: Resurrecting The Forgotten British Pavilion Venice Biennale – Sue Hubbard
May you live in interesting times is the overarching theme of this year’s Biennale. Dystopia and dissonance are everywhere played out in the themes...
Whatever Happened To Anthony Caro? – Three Reviews – Edward Lucie-Smith
Whatever happened to Anthony Caro? In Jonathan Jones’ new book about the history of British art from Hogarth to Banksy, Caro gets about half a page....
Jonathan Jones Sensations – Book Review – Edward Lucie-Smith
Jonathan Jones’ new book from Laurence King Publishing is a quality job. Entitled Sensations, it bears on its back cover a recommendation from none...
Bruce McLean Plus Three Other London Shows – Edward Lucie Smith
In a trough after its immediately pre-Easter excitements – Rembrandt at Gagosian, Sean Scully at the NG – the London art world looks faintly dreary...
Kathy Acker And I – ICA Retrospective – Paul Carter Robinson
I,I,I,I,I,I,I Kathy Acker is a fitting title for this quasi-retrospective exhibition which opened at the ICA on Tuesday night. In fact, it would...
Chantal Joffe: Her Own Sense Of Being – Victoria Miro – Sue Hubbard
Chantal Joffe Victoria Miro London: In his seminal 1972 book Ways of Seeing, the late John Berger claimed that: ‘A woman must continually watch...
Figurative Abstraction And Meditative Dreamscapes Two London Shows – Edward Lucie-Smith
Currently, Huxley Parlour in Swallow Street, a location better known for its restaurants rather than for art, has a show rather mysteriously...
Sean Scully National Gallery – Rembrandt and Now Gagosian – Edward Lucie-Smith
At first glance, the Sean Scully show that just opened at the National Gallery in London couldn’t be more different from the exhibition not far away...
Raqib Shaw Landscapes Of Kashmir – Pace NY – Ilka Scobie
Kashmiri born, London based Raqib Shaw has created his first dazzlingly immersive and multicultural landscape series. Renowned for his alchemy of...
Richter and Snyder Two London Spring Exhibitions – Edward Lucie-Smith
The Gerhard Richter show currently in the smaller of Gagosian’s three London galleries is maybe best described as “a bit of a tease”. It consists of...