Reviews
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...
Art Now: A Pale Corporate Shadow Of A Former Anarchic Practice – Sue Hubbard
The other night I went to the private view of Lucy Beech and Edward Thomasson’s performance that forms part of Tate Britain’s Art Now, an ongoing...
Richard Long At Houghton Hall Norfolk An Inspired Pairing
Richard Long, the four-times Turner Prize nominee and one-time winner (1989), is one of the leading figures of conceptual and land art. His latest...
David LaChapelle – Materialistic Beauty And Everlasting Youth – First Venice Solo Show
Lost+ Found is David LaChapelle’s first solo show in Venice. The exhibition expanding over four floors presents a survey of LaChapelle’s work from...
Michelangelo Plaster Casts More Convincing Than Sebastiano – National Gallery – Edward Lucie-Smith
The current Michelangelo & Sebastiano show at the National Gallery here in London is very much the kind of exhibition that one feels a great...
