Reviews
Sue Arrowsmith And Mathew Weir – Subtle Intimate Mark Making – MOCA London
Transference is the exhibition currently on at MOCA London, featuring artists Sue Arrowsmith and Mathew Weir. As given from the title of the show;...
London Art Review Round-Up April 2018 – Paul Carey Kent
The noted writer and curator Paul Carey-Kent gives us his rolling ten recommended contemporary art shows in London now. Paul currently freelances...
Cool Modern America: A Dehumanised Modernist Dream – Paul Black
As Duchamp stated in 1915; “America is the country of the art of the future. Look at the skyscrapers! Has Europe anything to show more beautiful...
Cinthia Marcelle: Dark Matter Of Social Inequality – Modern Art Oxford
The Family in Disorder: Truth or Dare, sees Brazilian artist Cinthia Marcelle transform the architectural properties of Modern Art Oxford with a...
Michael Takeo Magruder: De / coding the Apocalypse – Panacea Museum – Revd Jonathan Evens
The Panacea Museum tells the story of the Panacea Society – a remarkable religious community formed in the early twentieth century. For 90 years,...
Known Unknowns Mark Another Forward Step In Saatchi’s Recovery – Edward Lucie-Smith
The Saatchi Gallery’s new anthology show Known Unknowns marks another forward step in its recovery. A recovery, that is, into being a gallery that...
The Owlman Cometh: Joseph Sakoilsky At The Stash Gallery – Teo Robinson
I am thinking of the Owlman. Ask any insomniac about “The Shadow People”, and their eyes will widen, and they'll tell you a dozen tales. Perhaps its...
I LOVE YOU. I LOATHE YOU. WITCHCRAFT AT THE BARBICAN – BY ZOLTAN ALEXANDER
Although Artlyst essentially focuses on contemporary art reviews, gallery listings and not o operas, one has to admit that music and art cannot be...
The Background To The Boom And Other Tales – Edward Lucie-Smith
Three very different books that somehow reflect different facets of the same situation. The most obvious relevant – the title tells the tale – is...
Tacita Dean’s Triple Header Implicit Nostalgia And History – Sue Hubbard
Film is Tacita Dean’s medium. Not that catch-all of so many contemporary artists, video, but analogue film with all its implicit nostalgia and...
John Copeland: The Return Of Exuberant Painterliness – Edward Lucie-Smith
John Copeland is an American painter in his 40s, not it seems particularly well known in his own country. Born in California, he now lives and works...
High Society: Four Centuries Of Lavish Portraiture – Rijks Museum – Paul Carter Robinson
It's always such a treat to visit the Rijks Museum in Amsterdam. Not only does the collection contain some of the most important paintings by...