Reviews
Harrison Pearce – Conflicting Forces of Desire and Menace By Richard Dorment
Harrison Pearce meticulously constructs kinetic sculptural installations out of industrial machinery, silicon and rope. The clashes he sets up...
R U Being Served? Art At Fortnums And Whiteleys – Edward Lucie-Smith
Such is the pressure on gallery space that quite important exhibitions now take place in all sorts of strange places. Sometimes, quite literally,...
Duchamp And Dali Two Iconic 20th-Century Artists – Edward Lucie-Smith
Duchamp And Dali - Royal Academy: This provocative little show at the R.A., done in parallel with the same institutions big retrospective for...
Jake And Dinos Chapman – Suicide Vests And Contextualising Goya – Edward Lucie-Smith
The new show by Jake and Dinos Chapman at Blain-Southern – their first outing with this prestigious dealer, offers a full-on re-interpretation of...
Alexander De Cadenet Inside The bronze Apple By Amanda McGregor
Alexander De Cadenet At St Stephens, Wallbrook, London: There is a saying, ‘you are the apple of my eye’, apparently this saying came into the...
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...
