Reviews
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...
Breeeeze: Four Artists Consider The Ambivalence Of Domestic Space – Elizabeth Fullerton
“A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction,” Virginia Woolf wrote in her famous essay on the subject, which discusses...
Edwin Landseer The Return Of A Moralistically Empathetic Artist – Edward Lucie-Smith
How times have changed! And how much they haven’t! A small but telling display of work by the celebrated Victorian artist Sir Edwin Landseer, now on...
Bloomberg New Contemporaries South London Gallery – Review – Jude Cowan Montague
I confess straight away that I didn't have as much time as I would have liked to spend on this exhibition. It has a split location, the new building...
Plaster Casters: Victoria & Albert Museum Cast Courts Reopen – Edward Lucie-Smith
The full re-opening of the Victoria & Albert Museum’s Cast Courts occurs at an apposite moment. It’s apposite not only because of the rise to...
Richard Long: The Tide is High – Edward Lucie-Smith
There can be no doubt that Richard Long is one of the giants of British art. Or so a very impressive curriculum vitae would lead one to suppose. He...
Tomas Saraceno: On Air – Palais de Tokyo Paris – Virginie Puertolas-Syn
Tomas Saraceno “On Air” an exhibition at the Palais de Tokyo is definitely one of the most extraordinary exhibitions I have ever seen. A once in a...
Chiharu Shiota: Immersive Elegant Scarlet Threads – Blain|Southern – Edward Lucie-Smith
Today London’s official art world is full of enthusiasm for so-called ‘minority art’, made by artists of guaranteed ‘minority origin’. On the whole,...