Reviews
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...
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...