Reviews
Robert Rauschenberg Light-Hearted Works With Serious Meaning – Edward Lucie-Smith
The Robert Rauschenberg show Spreads: 1975-83 just opened at Thaddaeus Ropac here in London comes complete with a museum-worthy hardcover catalogue,...
Woolwich Contemporary Print Fair 2018 Round-Up – Jude Cowan Montague
It was a personal pleasure to visit the Woolwich Contemporary Print Fair, now in its third year. The ambitious project has taken over the huge...
Gordon Matta Clark: The Chaos Of The 1970s – Edward Lucie-Smith
Gordon Matta Clark died quite some time ago now – in August 1978. And he died quite young, aged only 35. However, like a number of artists from...
Josef Albers Life And Work – A New Book – Review Edward Lucie-Smith
Once you struggle through the fairly formidable Introduction to this biography – a chapter devoted to orientating the reader concerning Josef...
Paul Lock: You Simply Are – Review Noho Showrooms – Simon Tarrant
Gauguin once reportedly exclaimed of self-taught artist Henri Rousseau’s self-portrait, “There is the truth and future! There is painting!” “There...
Hilma af Klint: Paintings For The Future – Guggenheim Museum NY – Ilka Scobie
Hilma af Klint’s abstract paintings first dazzled me when I encountered her work in the 2013 Venice Biennale. The Encyclopaedic Palace, curated by...
Perdita Sinclair An Impressive Visual Interpretation Of Micro-science – Jude Cowan Montague
Angiosperms (roughly flowering plants) produce an incredible variety of seeds that are dispersed in creative, innovative ways, sometimes involving...
Alex Katz And Richard Smith Two Current London Exhibitions – Edward Lucie-Smith
Despite its title, Coca-Cola Girls, Alex Katz’s new show at Timothy Taylor doesn’t really belong in the realm of Pop Art. It does, however, have...
Mantegna and Bellini In Presence of the Triumphs – National Gallery – Edward Lucie-Smith
This exhibition at the National Gallery is a landmark event. It brings together a rich selection of paintings, and some drawings, by two of the...
Peter Howson: The play is over – Flowers Gallery – Revd Jonathan Evens
‘Life-destroyer’, ‘get lost’, ‘monkeys’, ‘in bad faith’, ‘malediction’, ‘concealed dungeon’, ‘poison head’, ‘parasite’, ‘disenchantment’, ‘lechery’....
Bradley, Burden, Fischer and Pascali Four London Shows – Edward Lucie-Smith
Here, lumped together for the sake of convenience in an overcrowded Autumn season, are four London galleries. Three of them are part of the...
Lorenzo Lotto Metaphors Through Gestures And Symbols – Edward Lucie-Smith
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...