Reviews
Cerith Wyn Evans: Perceiving The Artist’s Searing Duchampian Neon – Paul Black
The internationally acclaimed Welsh artist Cerith Wyn Evans has unveiled his latest work; a major new neon sculpture at National Museum Cardiff....
Picasso’s Unspoken Minotaur In The Room – Tate Modern – Edward Lucie-Smith
The hosannas have already begun. Picasso's latest show at Tate Modern, entitled Picasso 1932: Love, Fame, Tragedy gets a 5-star review in The Times....
The Human Condition Relationships And Raw Desires – Tate Britain – Sue Hubbard
The 20th century saw God lose his central role within the scheme of human belief and philosophy. Nietzsche’s assertion that God was dead was...
Bloomberg New Contemporaries Block 336 – Patrick Hamilton Courtney
Bloomberg New Contemporaries flies its Georgian nest for Block 336, an edgier artist-run space in Brixton. We took a closer look at the work of six...
It’s A Fischl – Eric’s Latest London Exhibition Returns To Challenging Form
The American figurative painter Eric Fischl is back in London with a new exhibition of his large narrative canvases. The artist appears to have...
Roy Oxlade: Painting A Sense Of The Absurd – Edward Lucie-Smith
The late Roy Oxlade (1929-2014) is currently in some danger of being remembered, first and foremost, as the partner of the current ‘emerging artist’...
Genta Ishizuka: Organic Urushi At The Royal Arcade – Zoltan Alexander
This story could have started a few months ago on the Gion Tatsumi bridge in Kyoto, Japan, or a long time ago on a lazy afternoon at Lucie Rie's...
Submerging Artists: Rebirthing A Genre By Edward Lucie-Smith
It’s become noticeable that while the British art world – it's museum dominated segment in particular – still prattles happily about ‘emerging...
Rachel Howard A Rising International Artist With Substance – Edward Lucie-Smith
Rachel Howard (b. 1969 in County Durham) is a rising star in the British art world, which is currently badly in need of new names. "These works...
Emil Nolde: A Secret Heart Of Darkness – Sue Hubbard
There is a conundrum at the heart of the work of Emil Nolde. How could it be that this superb experimental colourist, this embracer of all things...
Eddie Peake: Compulsive Obsessional And Occasionally Shit-Scared – By Zoltan Alexander
Anything but a conventional artist, Eddie Peake is a footballer, a musician, a dancer, a graffiti guy covered with spray-paint, a ferocious...