Reviews
Charles I Commemoration Of A Doomed King – Royal Academy – Edward Lucie-Smith
The R.A.’s new exhibition, devoted to the role of Charles I, the most unfortunate of the Stuart monarchs, as collector of art, is a much more...
Steven Campbell: Large-Scale Collage Work Rich In Formal Invention – Clare Henry
When Steven Campbell arrived at Glasgow School of Art in 1978 age 25, he was a man in a hurry, fiercely ambitious and with enormous energy. Eight...
Andreas Gursky: Presentations Of The Real World – Hayward Gallery – Edward Lucie-Smith
For those of us who remember the state of the Hayward Gallery before the just completed rehab, the current Andreas Gursky show, which celebrates its...
Bridget Riley – A Seductive Collaborative Invitation – By Edward Lucie-Smith
The new Bridget Riley show at David Zwirner is a knockout, and very much on trend, in the sense that it is yet another celebration – hot on the...
London Art Exhibitions Winter 2018 Investigated By Zoltan Alexander
Art galleries opening all over the city with art as international as innovative. Given London, more than 1.500 galleries, its current art scene is...
London Art Fair 2018 Sue Hubbard Has The Last Word
There was a time when the London Art Fair (now in its 30th year) was the glitziest thing in the capital's art world calendar. That was before...
Philip Pearlstein: The American Lucian Freud’s Triumphant London Exhibition – Edward Lucie-Smith
Philip Pearlstein is one of the truly major figures in the history of 20th (and now 21st) century American art. He is now 93 years old, and still...
John Piper Primaeval Haunting Surrealism – Tate Liverpool – Alice Lenkiewicz
There is something very exciting about John Piper's early works at Tate Liverpool. The textures and layering of various materials, as in his collage...
London Art Exhibitions For January 2018 By Paul Carey-Kent
With Christmas 2017 and New Year 2018 behind us we return to the normality of the London art gallery offerings. This feature explores Various...
Can Art Transform Society? – Two Exhibition Reviews By Revd Jonathan Evens
Two current exhibitions seem to suggest that it can. Nature Morte at the Guildhall Art Gallery London explores both the history of the still life...
Edward Lucie-Smith Chooses Ten Exhibitions That Made A Difference In 2017
What were the best exhibitions in 2017? What's on my list of ten? The answers to this pair of questions really depend on which set of attitudes you...
Art Riot: Post-Soviet Dissidence In Russia – Edward Lucie-Smith
How times have changed! In the 1980s, during the closing decade of the Soviet Union, Russian dissident artists, emerging on to the world stage under...