Reviews

Arriving at Montparnasse, I don't at first see any sign of the Gallery Granville. With its modest frontage, it's located just off-road in a modern...

The R.A.’s show of drawings by Gustav Klimt and Egon Schiele, almost all of them loaned by the Albertina Museum in Vienna, arrives at a crucial...

As is becoming more and more apparent, contemporary art in the United States is becoming increasingly regionalised. Which is to say, identified with...

Looking around the NPG’s new Taylor Wessing Photographic Portrait Prize exhibition, I was immediately reminded of the fact that we are right in the...

Just as I had begun to despair of the future of video, or of video + installation, as mediums for genuinely convincing contemporary art, two major...

Celebrating the tercentenary of Glasgow University Hunterian founder, Dr. William Hunter obviously calls for a significant exhibition....

I have various reasons for being interested in Edward Burne-Jones. Some are purely personal. For example, I happen to live in the area of West...

It’s depressing how rapidly once-big art stars manage to fade nowadays. You blink your eyes, and suddenly they’re gone. The Italian star, Afro, now...

I first encountered the work of Paul Feiler (born Germany 1918 Died Cornwall 2013) at his centenary exhibition held at the Jerwood Gallery in...

Pierre-Cécile Puvis de Chavannes (1824-1898) has turned into a kind of orphan in art historical terms. His career overlapped with all sorts of...

Black Mirror presents itself as ‘Art as Social Satire’, and there is indeed a real black mirror in the show. Made of coal, it is the work of the...

Quite frankly, Anni Albers is a peculiar choice for a Tate Modern solo exhibition.  I realise the lines between fine and the applied arts have been...