Reviews
Woman Artist Filmmakers Takeover FACT Liverpool – Alice Lenkiewicz
FACT Liverpool: Erika Beckman’s film, ‘Cinderella’ created in 1986 is a strange slip of time. I was quite intrigued by the film. At first, you are...
John Kirby: The Torment Underlying The Civilised Facade – Revd Jonathan Evens
The art of painting is to still time and motion. As a result, the moment at which the artist chooses to freeze time is of real significance. The...
Passionate About Drawing: Roger Malbert Unveils Hand Drawn Action Packed – Clare Henry
For 34 years the wonderful Roger Malbert headed up Hayward Gallery Touring, overseeing literally thousands of contemporary art exhibitions that...
Vincent Van Gogh His Very British Legacy – Edward Lucie-Smith
Tate Britain has one very good reason to offer us a Vincent Van Gogh show, which is that it is sure to raise attendances at an institution fighting...
Sorolla: National Gallery And Mike Nelson – Tate Britain – Edward Lucie-Smith
Two shows have just opened at major London institutions –Sorolla at the National Gallery and Mike Nelson at Tate Britain. Different as they are,...
Anne Imhof: The World As A Durational Techno Sex Performance
After catching only the last few moments of the atmospheric Faust (2017) at the 57th Venice Biennale, I was excited to discover that Anne Imhof was...
Liliane Tomasko: Mapping The Human Psyche – Kerlin Gallery Dublin
In Liliane Tomasko’s current exhibition at Kerlin Gallery, the veil between the conscious and unconscious world is swept away. Titled The Red...
Archaeologies Charlie Smith London – Davina Jackson Pontone – Edward Lucie-Smith
London’s commercial gallery scene is increasingly dominated by big international names – Gagosian, Hauser & Wirth, Pace, etc. What they have to...
David Salle, Martin Parr and William Monk Kick Off The Spring Gallery Season – Edward Lucie-Smith
The London exhibition scene is currently so enamoured with dead avant-gardists that it was a pleasure to see work by the well-established American...
Dead Artists Abound In New London Art Exhibitions – Edward Lucie-Smith
At the moment Tate Modern offers retrospective exhibitions of three very different artists – Bonnard (French), Franz West (Austrian) and Dorothea...
Jeff Koons: Inflated Banality With An Impenetrable Surface – The Ashmolean – Paul Black
Jeff Koons has brought his blingy kitsch to the world's oldest public gallery. The Ashmolean Museum in Oxford is presenting the master of hollow...
Henry Moore Helmet Heads Historic Armour And Modernism – Jude Cowan Montague
Henry Moore Helmet Heads: As an etcher, I have a long term interest in armour as one of the early applications of the process. Daniel Hopfer...