Reviews
Time for Trees A Time For Growing London Summer Exhibitions – Nico Kos Earle
"A society grows great when old men plant trees under whose shade they know they shall not sit." - Greek Proverb When Marina Tabassum's architects...
Jenny Saville Excavating The Feminine NPG – Sooz Belnavis-Abbott
When I walked into Jenny Saville's exhibition, The Anatomy of Painting, this morning, my face split into a grin. I didn't expect to see old friends....
Edward Burra And Ithell Colquhoun Bring Joy To Tate Britain – Sophie Parkin
Edward Burra and Ithell Colquhoun were both Surrealists, which makes you understand their twinning at Tate Britain from earlier provincial shows:...
London Gallery Weekend: A Snapshot of some favourite shows – Nico Kos Earle
For 72 hours, London's art scene became one vast, twitching organism. From Mayfair's white spaces to Peckham's railway arches dripping with...
RA Summer Exhibition: An Annual Artistic Ephemeral Jamboree – Oliver Malin
Another Annus Mirabilis, Another RA Summer Exhibition, No 258, which all kicked off in 1769, the year of Napoleon Bonaparte's birth, so it's always...
Intimations Of Andy Warhol Newlands House Gallery – Claudia Barbieri Childs
Andy Warhol: My True Story, the summer show at Newlands House Gallery, is a humanising portrait of one of Modern Art’s most sacred monsters. Curated...
Yoshitomo Nara: A Wide-Eyed Rebellion – Hayward Gallery
For the first time in the UK, a public institution has dedicated its space to a full-scale retrospective of Yoshitomo Nara, the Japanese artist...
Anna-Eva Bergman & Hans Hartung: A Dialogue of Light and Gesture
Prague — A major retrospective at Kunsthalle Praha, And We'll Never Be Parted, redefines the artistic partnership of the 20th-century Abstract...
Sussex Modernism Towner Eastbourne Thought Provoking And Original – Claudia Barbieri
In 1910, Jacob Epstein and Eric Gill proposed building a solar temple, a latter-day Stonehenge populated with giant archetypal gods, on six acres of...
Amsterdam Art Week 2025: The Shows/The Studios – Paul Carey Kent
There are seventy art spaces and over a hundred events listed as part of Amsterdam’s Art Week (20-25 May), including the open studios, which I have...
Heiress: Sargent’s American Portraits – A Gilded Age Reckoning at Kenwood House
One hundred years after John Singer Sargent's death, Heiress: Sargent's American Portraits arrives at Kenwood House in North London with bold...
Damien Hirst: The Unseen Drawings Behind The Velvet Curtain
For an artist synonymous with shock, scale, and spectacle, Damien Hirst’s most revealing works may be his most discreet yet. Damien Hirst: Drawings...
