Reviews

‘Life-destroyer’, ‘get lost’, ‘monkeys’, ‘in bad faith’, ‘malediction’, ‘concealed dungeon’, ‘poison head’, ‘parasite’, ‘disenchantment’, ‘lechery’....

Here, lumped together for the sake of convenience in an overcrowded Autumn season, are four London galleries. Three of them are part of the...

Tucked away in a group of spaces on the gloomy ground floor of the National Gallery is a superb exhibition that seems likely to attract less...

The Modern Couples show currently at the Barbican has eyes slightly too big for its own – or at any rate for my stomach. Nevertheless, it is, in the...

As one of the participants in the globe-trotting EMPIRE 2 project, exhibiting the moving image on a world tour, I came to Paris for the project's...

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...