Reviews
Three Women Painting Big – Painting Loud – Newport Street Gallery – Edward Lucie-Smith
Damien Hirst’s Newport Street Gallery has a new show entitled True Colours. It shows that Damien-the-art-patron is up to his usual mischief, thank...
RA’s 250th Anniversary A Triumph Of The Wall? – Edward Lucie-Smith
The RA’s celebration of its 250th-anniversary show has met with hosannas in the press, with maybe the loudest of all coming from those who see...
Marc Chagall: Reassessing The Breakthrough Years – Guggenheim Bilbao – Paul Carter Robinson
Marc Chagall is an enigma. On one hand he is one of the most successful 20th-century artists, in the major auction rooms, with paintings achieving...
Aftermath – Emerging from the Catastrophe of WWI – Tate Britain – Edward Lucie-Smith
Aftermath is at last a good solid show at Tate Britain, rather than something anxiously politically correct, and equally anxious to demonstrate just...
Howard Hodgkin’s Last Stand? Late Paintings Gagosian – Edward Lucie-Smith
The current show of late paintings by Howard Hodgkin at Gagosian Grosvenor Hill is, for me, a melancholy occasion. The exhibition, taken as a whole...
Charles March Photography Palazzo Borghese Rome – Edward Lucie-Smith
I’m just back from the opening of Charles March photography show at Palazzo Borghese in Rome. His work, often on a very large scale, is well suited...
Schiele / Woodman A Keen Sense Of Grotesque And Distortion – Alice Lenkiewicz
Tate Liverpool - There is a sense of the grotesque to the work of Egon Schiele. His gnarled and crooked drawings of nudes are strong but isolated...
Julian Schnabel: A Light That Failed – Edward Lucie-Smith
Julian Schnabel currently occupies an ambiguous position in the art world, which his new solo exhibition at Pace is likely to do little to clarify....
Tacita Dean Landscapes Royal Academy – Sue Hubbard
I have admired much of Tacita Dean’s earlier work. Her blackboard drawings, including her piece on the deluded round-the-world-yachtsman, Donald...
Katharina Grosse: Kaleidoscopic Matter And Energy – Zoltan Alexander
Monumental and breathtaking are the words that first come to my mind when I think of Katharina Grosse's site-specific installations. Her abstract...
Out Of The Frame – Photo London 2018 – Edward Lucie-Smith
Photo London 2018 Until Sunday 20 May As I made my way into the press view of this year’s edition of Photo London, I narrowly missed colliding with...
Shape Of Things To Come: Abstract Photography Tate Modern – Edward Lucie-Smith
Tate Modern’s new show, Shape of Light, has already received negative reviews from The Independent, The Times, and The Sunday Times. Only The...