Reviews

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...

The William Tillyer show at Bernard Jacobson is an example of what I’m starting to think of as the current ‘golden oldie’ phenomenon in London...

Last Wednesday, before the Frieze frenzy, I attended the opening of the Michelangelo Pistoletto exhibition, “Origins and Consequences” at the...

Sean Scully is extremely widely known as a painter. Indeed, I might go so far as to say that he is as widely known as any contemporary painter now...