Reviews
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...
How Egon Schiele Became Egon Schiele – Fondation Louis Vuitton – Jude Cowan Montague
When I visited art college studios as a jealous English student in the 1980s, the cool, edgy artists had pictures of skinny, edgy women in tea...
Irving Penn Paintings: A Kind Of Photographic Sub-Stratum – Edward Lucie-Smith
Irving Penn (1917-2009) was one of the great stars of 20th century American photography, at a time when the United States was becoming the world’s...
Philip Colbert / Marshmallow Laser Feast – Saatchi Gallery- Review Edward Lucie-Smith
In the current context of London exhibitions, the unabashed rock-'n’roll energy of the Philip Colbert Hunt Paintings' show, recently opened upstairs...
Jean-Michel Basquiat – Fondation Louis Vuitton – Review Jude Cowan Montague
Where are the black artists in the galleries? We think it's bad now, what about during the 1980s? The early 1980s before Basquiat? No wonder...
Thomas Gainsborough: A Thirst For Visible Originality – Edward Lucie-Smith
After various adventures away from its traditional subject-matter – the recent Michael Jackson show being a case in point, the National Portrait...
