Reviews
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....
Fahrelnissa Zeid: In Pursuit of the Exotic Tate Modern – Edward Lucie-Smith
I confess I had a few reservations about the Fahrelnissa Zeid retrospective now at Tate Modern. It follows a now rather familiar pattern of...
Richard Smith Abstraction On The Periphery Of Recall By Edward Lucie-Smith
The small exhibition of work by Richard Smith currently at the Flowers Gallery in Cork Street offers, among other things, a demonstration of...
Grayson Perry Climbing The Populist Mountain Serpentine Review – Edward Lucie-Smith
The Grayson Perry show that just opened at the Serpentine Gallery offers both a very new version of now-obligatory populism in the promotion of...
London Art Exhibition Picks June 2017 By Paul Carey -Kent
Paul Carey-Kent offers Artlyst his choice of the best London Art Exhibitions to see in June 2017 Sara Barker: a weak spot in the Earth @ The...
HOKUSAI A Most Influential Alien By Edward Lucie-Smith
Until the Modern epoch, and indeed right up to the present day, Hokusai was by far the most influential non-European artist to impact...
British Modern Masters Explored In New York Exhibition At Rosenberg & Co
Everyone in Britain was torn apart by World War ll. Artists were hungry, dislocated and like everyone else had lost their sense of safety and home....
Wayne Thiebaud Beneath The Icing On The Cake – Edward Lucie-Smith
The now very senior Wayne Thiebaud (b. 1920) has often found himself classified as a Pop artist, largely because a large part of his subject matter...