Reviews
Arabic calligraphy Another Islamic Winner Saatchi Gallery – Edward Lucie-Smith
Hot on the heels of the Princess Zeid show at Tate Modern, which runs until October 8th, is a much smaller and shorter-lived exhibition at the...
Sarajevo’s Mersad Berber – Memorial For A Local Hero By Edward Lucie-Smith
Mersad Berber was one of the very few artists from the former Yugoslavia who managed to acquire an international profile for himself. He had a big...
Rose Finn-Kelcey: Forging The Future Of Feminist Art By Paul Black
Modern Art Oxford is currently presenting the first posthumous exhibition of works by Rose Finn-Kelcey (1945–2014). The artist was highly acclaimed...
Hella Jongerius Playing With Colour By Edward Lucie-Smith
As Hella Jongerius’ fascinating exhibition at the Design Museum proves, it is getting more and more difficult to draw a firm, unyielding line...
Islamic Women Explore Their Identities In London Exhibition – By Edward Lucie-Smith
There happens to be quite a spectrum of feminist and what one might (maybe tactlessly) call ethnic exhibitions on view in London right now....
Black Power! Tate’s Latest Right On Exhibition Explores African American Art
A challenging and intelligent new show at Tate Modern asks rather more questions than it actually succeeds in answering. It is, nevertheless,...
Chris Ofili Tapestry Magic At The National Gallery By Edward Lucie-Smith
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...
Carla Raffinetti: Drawing A Way Out Of The Abyss New Exhibition
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...
Raphael Drawings Appropriation On A Grand Scale By Edward Lucie-Smith
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...
Jamaican Spiritual Art And Its Relationship To Religion By Edward Lucie-Smith
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...
G.F. WATTS – Not Quite Michelangelo By Edward Lucie-Smith
The Watts Gallery, near Guilford, with one of very few art spaces in Britain that is basically dedicated to a single artist. Equivalents, perhaps,...
Howard Hodgkin: India My Somewhere Else By Sue Hubbard
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...