Reviews
Paul Cary -Kent Chooses His Must See Exhibitions For September 2017
Up Now in London - Paul Carey-Kent chooses the best of the Autumn season's start. Stano Filko: Reality of Cosmos @ The Mayor Gallery, 21 Cork St...
Alma Tadema Cinematic Blockbuster Painting – By Edward Lucie-Smith
At first glance, the late Victorian grandee who works is now in a show at Leighton House, and today’s culture hero Damien Hirst, leader of...
Ralph Steadman’s Ark – Species Threatened With Extinction By Edward Lucie-Smith
Ralph Steadman has just published a very handsome new picture book, folio size, entitled Critical Critters, about species threatened with...
Drawing As An Encounter Between Artists And Sitters By Edward Lucie-Smith
The latest stage in the National Portrait Gallery’s endeavour to reach out beyond its original remit – paintings and sculptures, often of not much...
Bram Bogart: Focus On Boundaries Of Painting At The Saatchi Gallery
This Summer, the Saatchi Gallery will be hosting the second of a series of exhibitions under the new SALON programme within the Gallery's Duke of...
Is Daniel Richter In The Same League As Peter Doig?
Daniel Richter has shaped painting in Germany as few others have done, since the 1990s. He slots in well with important painters such as Peter Doig...
Harland Miller – Voyage To The End Of Pop Art – Edward Lucie-Smith
Harland Miller’s rather handsome exhibition at White Cube, Mason’s Yard, looks more like the end of something than the beginning of something. There...
Matisse Cultural Appropriation And His Studio RA Review By Sue Hubbard
The artist’s studio is both a practical workshop and the workshop of the mind, a place of reflection and play, of doubt and hard work. At first a...
Arabic calligraphy Another Islamic Winner Saatchi Gallery – Edward Lucie-Smith
Hot on the heels of the Princess Zeid show at Tate Modern, which runs until October 8th, is a much smaller and shorter-lived exhibition at the...
Sarajevo’s Mersad Berber – Memorial For A Local Hero By Edward Lucie-Smith
Mersad Berber was one of the very few artists from the former Yugoslavia who managed to acquire an international profile for himself. He had a big...
Rose Finn-Kelcey: Forging The Future Of Feminist Art By Paul Black
Modern Art Oxford is currently presenting the first posthumous exhibition of works by Rose Finn-Kelcey (1945–2014). The artist was highly acclaimed...
Hella Jongerius Playing With Colour By Edward Lucie-Smith
As Hella Jongerius’ fascinating exhibition at the Design Museum proves, it is getting more and more difficult to draw a firm, unyielding line...