Reviews
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...
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...