Even if you don’t know Robert Indiana’s name, you know his most popular work, LOVE. Cited as the most known artwork in the world, it is, in fact so famous that many people may not even realise it’s an artwork at all.
10 March 2022
The artist’s studio is a timeless, complex space. A place where artists go to work, to think, providing both inspiration and comfort, as well as an actual physical place to go to create and experiment.
9 March 2022
Surrealism: Beyond Borders presents an expansive and hugely varied retelling of the story of Surrealism that challenges the Paris-centric traditional art history tale of its flourishing.
1 March 2022
Walking into Whistler’s Woman in White exhibition, one does not know quite what to expect. After all, it is a bold choice to construct an exhibition based solely around one painting.
26 February 2022
This year Frieze took place in Beverly Hills next to the Hilton Beverly Hills – the tent was designed by Kulapat Yantrasast
25 February 2022
is a mythmaker and a storyteller. A chronicler of the self who has used her life to create narratives that speak of female desire
13 February 2022
In a letter to his brother Theo, Vincent Van Gogh wrote, ‘I’d like to paint men or women with that je ne sais quoi of the eternal,
3 February 2022
Omicron’s on the decline, the snow is grey and slushy, and the city unveils eclectic and exciting art.
3 February 2022
If there is one image that Bacon made his own above any other, it is the mouth contorted in a scream or grimace.
27 January 2022
The London Jesuit Centre and Farm Street Church currently have a marvellous exhibition of icons by Dr Irina Bradley, one of the leading iconographers in the UK.
23 January 2022
The performance artist Leigh Bowery died of AIDS-related illness on New Year’s Eve 1994 at only 33 years old. He didn’t tell anyone he was sick – except his best friend, Sue Tilley. When she asked him what she should tell people when he died, he said: “Tell them I’ve gone to Papua New Guinea”.
13 January 2022
George Rickey was a lone star who created new, mesmerising, enthralling sculptures defined by movement.
3 January 2022
I was taken back to the roots of my love for the visual arts on a visit to galleries around Cork Street just before Christmas.
27 December 2021
I was pleased to be invited to review Betsy Bradley’s first solo exhibition, Chasing Rainbows, at Birmingham’s IKON Gallery.
12 December 2021
Albrecht Dürer, himself, lived in Nuremberg throughout his life but made several significant European journeys.
11 December 2021
The first black Marchioness in British history – beckoned the art world last week to a charity art auction hosted by London’s latest art house, Grove Square Galleries.
8 December 2021
Stirring it up or creolisation is taken by this exhibition as a defining characteristic of British Caribbean artists.
5 December 2021
Gollon’s work should be seen in the context of North European Painting. He is heir to the tradition which produced painters such as Breughel and Bosch
2 December 2021
She’s the oldest artist to have won the Turner Prize (she is now 67). Born in Zanzibar, Lubaina Himid returned
30 November 2021
The artwork of Paula Rego, whose career spans an impressive half-century, has been largely informed by her childhood in Portugal, the tension of her conservative upbringing with the looser morals of her London experience at the Slade school of art, and her relationship with her parents.
29 November 2021
It came as a surprise to learn that ‘Cerisiers en Fleurs’ (‘Cherry Blossoms’) is Damien Hirst’s museum exhibition in France
20 November 2021
Isamu Noguchi thought art should improve the way people live and believed sculpture could ‘be a vital force in our everyday life.
20 November 2021
The work and practice of Pablo Bronstein addresses two common misconceptions. The first concerns art and is to do with the perception that the contemporary art world no longer teaches, values or rewards the traditional skills of drawing.
16 November 2021
Through its latest exhibition, Laura Knight MK Gallery hopes that a new generation will discover the work of this artist
9 November 2021
The Konig Gallery. This is an appropriate space for the display of Bosco Sodi’s work which is taken from the ground and made on the ground.
3 November 2021
Two exceptional touring exhibitions have converged at the Guggenheim Bilbao, one from the Centre Pompidou titled ‘Women in Abstraction’. The other is a retrospective exhibition of the New York figurative painter Alice Neel titled, ‘People Comer First’.
26 October 2021
It’s a challenging and wonderful exhibition by a woman artist, Lucy McKenzie, Glasgow born, Brussels – based
23 October 2021
There is an explosion of paint at Hauser & Wirth in the latest exhibition by George Condo. The energies of emergence and encounter surge…
23 October 2021
In the beginning, there was Clay. Clay was without form. Thus begins Theaster Gates’ ‘A Clay Sermon’,
19 October 2021
One of the notable characteristics of The Cello Factory is its copious natural light making it the perfect space for the “Reflection” exhibition, and the show has unique qualities that set it apart. Many of the works aim to intrigue the visitor through their surfaces and colours changing as one’s viewpoint moves, while others transform according to the changing light in the gallery and some do both.
17 October 2021
Among Mark Rothko’s artistic philosophies, he held that painting was a deeply psychological and spiritual experience
10 October 2021
Do not miss Artist Farsad Labbauf’s new show ‘Revisiting Fragments and Entities’, which opened recently in Chelsea at Roya Khadjavi Projects
8 October 2021
