Reviews
Two Friezes – More Is Less By Edward Lucie-Smith
The two Frieze art fairs held simultaneously in London every year are now, according to received opinion, the biggest temperature taking,...
Dan Colen Free-Spirited And Up For Anything – By Edward Lucie-Smith
Just occasionally, an exhibition manages to take me unawares. This was very much the case with Dan Colen’s new show at Damien Hirst’s splendid...
Frieze Week And Beyond Gallery Round-Up October 2017 – Paul Carey Kent
Writer, Critic and Curator Paul Carey-Kent presents his October Frieze Week and Beyond gallery round-up for October 2017. Giorgio de...
Degas – The Impressionist Movement’s Odd Man Out By Edward Lucie-Smith
Degas often seems like the odd man out, among the leading artists of the Impressionist Movement. The National Gallery’s exhibition of his work,...
Roy Lichtenstein: Ben-Day Dots And Printer’s Ink – Tate Liverpool
This is the first public gallery show of Lichtenstein’s paintings to be held in Britain since Tate Modern's well-attended retrospective in London,...
Society Running on Empty at White Cube by Edward Lucie-Smith
From the Vapor of Gasoline, the odd title of the new mixed exhibition at White Cube Mason’s Yard comes from a slogan Jean-Michel Basquiat scrawled...
Jasper Johns: Who Am I? A Retrospective By Edward Lucie-Smith
Often enough in his career, Jasper Johns has issued statements that say in effect: ‘Who am I? The truth is that I don’t think I really know the...
Basquiat Boom The Hero In His Own Play By Edward Lucie-Smith
The new Jean-Michel Basquiat show at the Barbican titled Basquiat: Boom For Real comes with a thumping big hardback catalogue published by Prestel....
Bartholomew Beal – Maslen and Mehra Reviewed By Edward Lucie-Smith
BARTHOLOMEW BEAL FAS - There’s a paradoxical situation in the art world right now, Both here in Britain and, according to what I see on the Web,...
Scythian Gold Sinister Riches British Museum By Edward Lucie-Smith
The British Museum’s new exhibition, Scythians: Warriors of Ancient Siberia, marks another triumph for the B.M’s policy of allying itself to...
Unveiled – The Oscar Wilde Temple by David McDermott and Peter McGough NYC
“We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars” Oscar Wilde Twenty years in the planning, the Oscar Wilde Temple gloriously...
Jean Dubuffet: Art Naked Without Pretensions By Edward Lucie-Smith
There’s no doubt that the Jean Dubuffet show just opened at Pace here in London would be entirely worthy of a great museum – that is, if it happened...