Reviews
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...
Gillian Wearing and Claude Cahun Projections of Self National Portrait Gallery
Pairing the work of contemporary artist Gillian Wearing with the innovative early-twentieth century photographer Claude Cahun is an inspired choice...
Michael Andrews A Coda Not A New Beginning – Gagosian Grosvenor Hill
The Michael Andrews show currently at Gagosian’s Grosvenor Hill Gallery offers a series of paradoxes, some perhaps intended by the gallery, others...
Ibrahim Mahama: An Artist’s Monument To Modern Ghana – White Cube
The first solo show in London of Ibrahim Mahama, a young maitre in African contemporary art has been mounted at White Cube Bermondsey. I discovered...
Jo Brocklehurst Explores Gender, Punks And Fetish Clubs In Posthumous Exhibition
There is a form of collective amnesia which permeates the contemporary art world where people ‘forget’ those who came before them and who they are...
Armory Show 2017 Indicative Of Art Market’s Changing Economic Landscape
It’s a week of art fairs in New York. The Armory Show, held in a crowded, bustling convention center on the Hudson River is the biggest of the fairs...
Bluecoat Tercentenary Celebrated With 106 Previously Exhibited Artists On Public View
2017 marks Bluecoat’s tercentenary, making it the oldest building in Liverpool city centre and the UK’s first arts centre: quite an achievement. At...
Maria Lassnig Seamlessly Melding Figurative and Abstract Painting Hauser and Wirth London
There is no doubt that Maria Lassnig can paint. Whatever style from her early abstracts through to her figuration she handles paint fluently, her...
March Choices – London Art Exhibitions 2017 By Paul Carey-Kent
Top Photo: Mark Woods @ Lubomirov / Angus-Hughes Paul Carey-Kent publishes his March Choices 2017 - Up Now in a London Gallery near you. Sebastian...