Reviews
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...
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...