Reviews
The Fine Art Of Video Games – V&A – Edward Lucie-Smith
Video Games Rule! The Victoria and Albert Museum has just opened a large, ambitious exhibition devoted to video games. It's their first venture into...
Spellbound: Enchanted By Magical Thinking At The Ashmolean Museum – Paul Black
The Ashmolean Museum's autumn exhibition Spellbound explores the timeless cross-cultural belief in magic through 180 objects - often strange and...
The Nearly Identical Stars Of Cindy Sherman – Zoltan Alexander
“I am always surprised at all the things people read into my photos” Cindy Sherman THE GALLERY Sprüth Magers, located in the heart of Mayfair,...
Drag Race: Destabilising Stable Social Conventions – Hayward Gallery – Edward Lucie-Smith
The new show at the Hayward Gallery’s Heni Project Space – which basically means just a fairly small room on the ground floor, to your right as you...
Britain’s Passion For Rembrandt Explored In New Scottish Exhibition – Clare Henry
Rembrandt can be a controversial figure. As the latest TV documentary tells us, the number of his paintings recognised as genuine varies with each...
BP Portrait Award 2018 Following No Particular Path – Edward Lucie-Smith
The BP Portrait Award 2018 currently at the National Portrait Gallery offers interesting parallels with the London Open 2018 on view at Whitechapel....
Art And The Consequences Of War Explored In Two Exhibitions
'Aftermath: Art in the Wake of World War One' at Tate Britain and 'Magic Realism: Art in Weimar Germany 1919 - 33' at Tate Modern are linked...
London Open: Desperately Seeking Duchamp – Whitechapel Gallery – Edward Lucie-Smith
The London Open at the Whitechapel Gallery is a triennial event. As the curators, Emily Butler and Cameron Foote, say in their catalogue...
Magic Realism: Objectivity In Weimar – Tate Modern – Edward Lucie-Smith
The Magic Realism: Art In Weimar Germany 1919-33 show that just opened at Tate Modern is a welcome addition to what you can see at this major London...
Helaine Blumenfeld Translating Her Vision – Revd Jonathan Evens
Rupert Edwards, Director of the recent Sky Arts documentary ‘Hard Beauty’, describes the film’s subject, Helaine Blumenfeld, ‘Britain’s most...
White Cube Summer A Whiter Shade Of Pale – Edward Lucie-Smith
Memory Palace, an anthology exhibition currently occupying both White Cube spaces, the big one in Bermondsey and the smaller one in Mason’s Yard St...
Christopher Le Brun Tranquil And Elegant – Lisson Gallery – Edward Lucie-Smith
I went to see Christopher Le Brun’s new exhibition, a solo at one of the branches of the Lisson Gallery. It was a busy Saturday – the nearby Little...