Reviews
Pig Out: Chinese Open Underground Art Exhibition Q Park – Jude Cowan Montague
It can be touch and go whether it's on or not each year. The logistics are huge. The goodwill required for this annual impromptu show is necessary...
Tracey Emin: Personal Real And Imaginative – Jude Cowan Montague
I visited the white, white cube for the Emin show a day after the people-jammed preview opening. I'm a little allergic to crowds so rely on the...
New London Exhibitions February 2019 – Edward Lucie-Smith
There’s a conflict of impulses in the art world just now. On the one hand, there is a desire to reflect what’s going on in society. On the other,...
Glasgow Exhibitions Winter 2019 – Clare Henry
GLASGOW's reputation has risen & fallen over the years. 1990 saw a peak. The city is now in a trough. The tragic fire which completely destroyed...
Bill Viola And Michelangelo A Fairground Magical Mystery Tour – Edward Lucie-Smith
The catalogue for the new Bill Viola show at the Royal Academy – also featuring a group of Michelangelo's best, most finished drawings – is careful...
Utopia Through Nostalgia The Koppel Project Hive – Jude Cowan Montague
Molly Brocklehurst curated this small group show to a grand idea that stems from her own work as a painter; to use art to examine the philosophical...
Richard Pousette-Dart An Elegant Affair With A Covert Past – Edward Lucie-Smith
Richard Pousette-Dart (1916-1992) is now one of the less-clearly remembered of the New York Abstract Expressionists, especially here in the UK. He...
Pierre Bonnard: A French Painter Carrying Forward A Great Inheritance – Edward Lucie-Smith
Bonnard was one of those betwixt and between artists, part of the Modern Movement in one sense, not fully Modern – in contrast, for example, to...
Rebecca Scott Beneath The Silk and Gloss – Jude Cowan Montague
Rebecca Scott's huge oil paintings of defaced magazine pages. It's a visceral exhibition by a confident painter, secure in her style, able to wow us...
Lynette Yiadom Boakye In Lieu Of A Louder Love – Ilka Scobie
A couple of years after Lynette Yiadom Boakye dazzled New York with her solo show at the New Museum, she returns to the city with 35 new paintings....
Mayfair’s Golden Oldies: Bernard Jacobson At 50 and Stephen Buckley @ Mayor Gallery – Edward Lucie-Smith
The Bernard Jacobson Gallery in the heart of London has had a long connection with artists’ prints and printmaking since it first opened its doors,...
Pailthorpe And Mednikoff The Birth of Psychorealism – Edward Lucie-Smith
Every so often a strange, worthwhile show manifests itself at one of the galleries on Britain’s South Coast – an area that is increasingly beginning...