Reviews
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...
Louis-Leopold Boilly And The 19th Century Parisian Bourgeoisie – Edward Lucie-Smith
Sometimes the dear old National Gallery here in London comes up with a nice surprise. Their new one-room, free entry exhibition is devoted to the...
Ken Currie: Protest Defeat And Victory – Revd Jonathan Evens
Violence is to be found everywhere and at all times, even where people pretend that it does not exist. That is the argument made by Jacques Ellul,...
The Renaissance Nude Exposed – Royal Academy – Edward Lucie-Smith
The RA’s new exhibition The Renaissance Nude, upstairs in the Sackler Wing of Burlington House, tackles an ambitious theme – the portrayal of the...
Dorothea Tanning The Doors of Perception – Tate Modern – Jude Cowan Montague
Dorothea Tanning is the artist, face hidden to me back then, who drew and painted a short series of paintings that I have loved since a child. She...
Upcoming Curators Review Exhibitions at Annka Kultys / Cell Project Space
Exhibitions at Annka Kultys and Cell Project Space reviewed by upcoming curators who are students of Sarah Sparkes’ course How to be an Independent...
Franz West: Tate Modern And David Zwirner London – Edward Lucie-Smith
The Franz West show at Tate Modern, with a smaller spin-off at the London branch of Zwirner, the late artist’s long-time dealer, presents the critic...
Diane Arbus Street Of Secrets – Hayward Gallery – Sue Hubbard
My favourite thing is to go where I’ve never been’ wrote the photographer Diane Arbus, the poor little rich Jewish girl who walked on the wild side....
Phyllida Barlow vs Elizabethan Treasures – Edward Lucie-Smith
Phyllida Barlow has long been one of the heroines of the professional contemporary art establishment here in Britain, without making much of an...