Reviews
Henryk Hetflaisz – An Illumined Brush Captured In Time
Henryk Hetflaisz's latest collection of photographs elevates the viewer into the realm of mystic form and enduring light. The experience becomes...
The Selfie – Narcissism Or Serious Form Of Art? By Edward Lucie-Smith
From Selfie to Self-Expression at the Saatchi Gallery represents a return to form, after a recent series of dead-on-arrival exhibitions held in this...
Queer Art At Tate – My Take By Edward Lucie-Smith
The hosannas are already ringing out for Tate Britain’s new show Queer British Art, 1861-1967. This, for example, is how Adrian Searle began his...
Ellsworth Kelly – Processes Of Chance – Tate Liverpool By Alice Lenkiewicz
On entering the ground floor gallery at Tate Liverpool, I look around and see eleven works by the American artist Ellsworth Kelly, three of which I...
London Art Exhibitions Recommended By Paul Carey-Kent April 2017
Art Critic and Curator Paul Carey-Kent Gives us his choices of the best London Art Exhibitions for April 2017 Anne Collier, Positive...
The Other Art Fair – But What About The Others? – Edward Lucie-Smith
I’ve always liked the Other Art Fair, on in London from now till April 2nd. But I’ve never quite known what to say about it. Basically, it’s...
Everyman His Own Artwork – Tate Modern – Edward Lucie-Smith Review
By the time you get round to reading this – I’m writing on the evening after the press preview – Tate Modern will have launched its latest...
Maggi Hambling – Oil and Cigarettes On Canvas – Simon Tarrant Reviews
"Maggi Hambling here", boomed a deep rasping well-spoken voice down my mobile, ‘I was told to call you back so here I am doing as I am told’. And as...
Howard Hodgkin Portraits The Insider’s Insider Review By Edward Lucie-Smith
Howard Hodgkin died just two weeks before the opening of the current retrospective of his portrait works at the National Portrait Gallery. The...
51% Remember Her – 100 Women Artists Exhibit In Plaistow
51% Remember Her - 100 Women Artists Exhibit: Heading down the Barking Road to E13 may not seem like the most obvious place to locate a large...
Eduardo Paolozzi – Halfway In Halfway Out Whitechapel Review By Edward Lucie-Smith
The current Paolozzi exhibition at the Whitechapel Art Gallery is, for an old stager like me, a bit of a puzzle. There was a time when Paolozzi was...
Revolution And Architecture – The Lights That Failed By Edward Lucie-Smith
The Design Museum’s new exhibition, Imagine Moscow: Architecture, Propaganda, Revolution, is in many respects a great improvement on its rather...