Reviews
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...
Pavilion of Humanity Where Objection is Exhibited At The Venice Biennale
I had the privilege to share this incredible Art journey with Michal Cole. An Art journey that had brought us from one Biennale to the next. It...
Kazem Hakimi: Chip Shop Photographer’s Breakthrough Show Reveals The Real Oxford
Artlyst has attended Modern Art Oxford, for the opening of 'Kazem Hakimi: Portraits from a Chip Shop', a fascinating and very personal exploration...
Mat Collishaw: Forms Of Illusion And Truth By Sue Hubbard
Desire is at the basis of most human behaviour from sex and procreation to the pursuit of beauty and death. According to Freud our psyches see-saw...
Lynette Yiadom-Boakye A Powerful Reinvigoration Of Figurative Painting By Ilka Scobie
The seventeen new portraits created specifically for the New Museum show continues Lynette Yiadom-Boakye’s powerful reinvigoration of figurative...
Is Ashley Bickerton Damien Hirst’s Bitch By Edward Lucie-Smith
One has been waiting for some time for Damien Hirst to exhibit an artist in some fashion at least resembling himself. Since the Newport Street...
Picasso As Minotaur: Gagosian London By Edward Lucie-Smith
The Picasso: Minotaurs and Matadors show now on view at Gagosian Grosvenor Hill neatly pips Tate Modern to the post. In March 2018 Tate Modern...
Darren Coffield: In Pursuit of Things Past By Yseult Nash
In Pursuit of Things Past is a small but significant showing of work by the artist and author, Darren Coffield. The show includes four new works...