Reviews
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...
Joseph Beuys: Thaddaeus Ropac London – Dear Dead Days! – Edward Lucie-Smith
I was from quite early on a convert to the cult of Joseph Beuys. I actually visited the Kassel Documenta of 1968. The inclusion of Beuys’s...
Bill Viola: Quiet Contemplative Video Installation St Cuthbert’s Church Edinburgh
St Cuthbert’s Church in Edinburgh (Kirk of the Castle Rock and Princes St Gardens) is currently home to an outstanding video art installation by the...
Beyond Counter-Culture: Life On The Margins Explored Through Photography – Edward Lucie-Smith
In the society we now have, photography has become the dominant medium for conveying news, opinion, social criticisms of all kinds. Painting has...
Nancy Fouts: Subversive Humour Reigns Supreme – Flowers Gallery
Subversive humour reigns supreme as surrealist enigma Nancy Fouts continues her search for everyday absurdity in Flowers Gallery’s latest solo show...
Joan Jonas: Portrayals Of Female Identity – Tate Modern – Zoltan Alexander
One of the most important American video and performance artists Joan Jonas emerged in the late 1960s. Jonas began her artistic career as a sculptor...
Rodin – Ancient Greece And A Third Uninvited Presence – Edward Lucie-Smith
The longer I spent in the British Museum’s admirable new blockbuster show, Rodin and the art of ancient Greece, the more keenly I seemed to feel the...