Reviews
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...
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...