Reviews

Chris Ofili's big tapestry, commissioned by the Clothworkers’ Company and now on view at the Sunley Room at the National Gallery, doesn’t seem to...

It is easy to dismiss the world of the ancestors and appeasing gods in a post-scientific Western society.  Less so when burdened with a culture and...

One telling feature of the show of Raphael drawings now at the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford is its timing. The show opened on June 1st and closes on...

A small confession to make here: I wrote a brief text for the catalogue of this show because Jamaica is where I originally come from. The subject...

The Watts Gallery, near Guilford, with one of very few art spaces in Britain that is basically dedicated to a single artist. Equivalents, perhaps,...

Everyone has a “somewhere else” in their lives Howard Hodgkin said in 1992. “My somewhere else is India”. Howard Hodgkin was 32 when he first...

A fascinating exhibition linking ‘Portraying a Nation'  and  ‘The Evil Eye’ with works by August Sander and Otto Dix is currently showing at...

What people choose to describe as ‘a masterpiece’ is usually pretty much a matter of context. On the whole, at this annual beanfeast for conspicuous...

This year’s big graduation show of work by Fine Arts students from the Royal College of Art is both inspiriting and at the same time just a little...

An intimate exhibition of eighty watercolours from the Anglo-American artist John Singer Sargent (1856-1925) has opened at Dulwich Picture Gallery....

I confess I had a few reservations about the Fahrelnissa Zeid retrospective now at Tate Modern. It follows a now rather familiar pattern of...

  The small exhibition of work by Richard Smith currently at the Flowers Gallery in Cork Street offers, among other things, a demonstration of...