Reviews
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...
Edvard Munch: Ibsenian Imagery And Isolation – Edward Lucie-Smith
A new exhibition of work by the Norwegian artist Edvard Munch now at the British Museum claims to be the biggest ever devoted to his work here in...
Johan Van Mullem – Unit London – Oliver Malin
Unit London & their emergence as a leading gallery brand on Instagram, (355K people can’t be that wrong?) are a serious force to be reckoned...
The GHost Parlour – Sarah Sparkes – New Art Projects London
The GHost Parlour, Sarah Sparkes’ solo exhibition at New Art Projects London, intimately explores the theme of ghosts and spirits, a subject which...
Global Art And The Cold War – John J Curley – Book Review – Edward Lucie-Smith
It is not often that one comes across a book on contemporary, or near contemporary, art that shifts one’s view of what it is, how it has developed,...