Reviews
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...
Philip Guston Laughing At Nixon While Living With Trump – Edward Lucie-Smith
Hauser & Wirth have demonstrated an impeccable sense of timing by presenting their Richard Milhouse Nixon show, 'Laughter in the Dark, Drawings...
An Intimate Look At Photo London By Paul Carey Kent
Paul Carey-Kent has sifted through Photo London the UK's leading photography fair to put together this themed pick of what caught his eye. The most...
Phyllida Barlow Great Henges Bright Coloured Forms Venice Biennale – Sue Hubbard
I remember, some time ago, a film in which a young interviewer asked Louise Bourgeois, then in her 90s, what it was like to become famous at her...
Venice Biennale 57 From An Artist’s Perspective Hedley Roberts Picks Twelve
1. German Pavilion: Anne Imhof Anne Imhof’s performance installation at the German Pavilion has a lot of hype and deservedly so. ‘Faust’ has...
Giacometti An Artist Of Distance Not Intimacy By Edward Lucie-Smith
Tate Modern’s new Giacometti show, following hot on the heels of a recent show dedicated to the same artist at the National Portrait Gallery, is...