Reviews
Islamic Women Explore Their Identities In London Exhibition – By Edward Lucie-Smith
There happens to be quite a spectrum of feminist and what one might (maybe tactlessly) call ethnic exhibitions on view in London right now....
Black Power! Tate’s Latest Right On Exhibition Explores African American Art
A challenging and intelligent new show at Tate Modern asks rather more questions than it actually succeeds in answering. It is, nevertheless,...
Chris Ofili Tapestry Magic At The National Gallery By Edward Lucie-Smith
Chris Ofili's big tapestry, commissioned by the Clothworkers’ Company and now on view at the Sunley Room at the National Gallery, doesn’t seem to...
Carla Raffinetti: Drawing A Way Out Of The Abyss New Exhibition
It is easy to dismiss the world of the ancestors and appeasing gods in a post-scientific Western society. Less so when burdened with a culture and...
Raphael Drawings Appropriation On A Grand Scale By Edward Lucie-Smith
One telling feature of the show of Raphael drawings now at the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford is its timing. The show opened on June 1st and closes on...
Jamaican Spiritual Art And Its Relationship To Religion By Edward Lucie-Smith
A small confession to make here: I wrote a brief text for the catalogue of this show because Jamaica is where I originally come from. The subject...
G.F. WATTS – Not Quite Michelangelo By Edward Lucie-Smith
The Watts Gallery, near Guilford, with one of very few art spaces in Britain that is basically dedicated to a single artist. Equivalents, perhaps,...
Howard Hodgkin: India My Somewhere Else By Sue Hubbard
Everyone has a “somewhere else” in their lives Howard Hodgkin said in 1992. “My somewhere else is India”. Howard Hodgkin was 32 when he first...
Otto Dix And August Sander – Observing The Rise Of German Fascism
A fascinating exhibition linking ‘Portraying a Nation' and ‘The Evil Eye’ with works by August Sander and Otto Dix is currently showing at...
Virtual Masterpiece The Masterpiece Art Fair By Edward Lucie-Smith
What people choose to describe as ‘a masterpiece’ is usually pretty much a matter of context. On the whole, at this annual beanfeast for conspicuous...
What Direction? Royal College Of Art Degree Shows 2017 By Edward Lucie-Smith
This year’s big graduation show of work by Fine Arts students from the Royal College of Art is both inspiriting and at the same time just a little...
John Singer Sargent A Magician Of Light Dulwich Picture Gallery
An intimate exhibition of eighty watercolours from the Anglo-American artist John Singer Sargent (1856-1925) has opened at Dulwich Picture Gallery....