Reviews
Crash Goes The American Dream c1930 RA Unveil Timely Painting Exhibition
Exhibitions in major galleries are usually planned years ahead. So it is the Royal Academy’s good fortune that their two excellent shows Revolution:...
Mersad Berber: Pera Museum Launches An Opulent Allegory of Bosnia
A man sets out to draw the world. As the years go by, he peoples a space with images of provinces, kingdoms, mountains, bays, ships, islands,...
Rembrandt Vs. Trump – The Leiden Collection, Revolution At The Louvre
Artlyst has travelled to Paris to the Musée du Louvre, which is currently presenting a selection of masterpieces by 17th-century Dutch painters from...
Restless Revolutionaries: A Timely Look At Russian Art By Edward Lucie-Smith
The R.A.’s new exhibition, hot on the heels of its magnificent Ab-Ex show, is entitled Revolution: Russian Art 1917-1932. That is, it aims to cover...
Liliane Tomasko Bridging Reverie And Reality Marc Straus NY
I would argue that the hardest thing to do, for a seasoned, well-trained, and technically savvy artist, is to paint like a child. After an...
Vanessa Bell The Bloomsbury Group’s Creative Bohemian Matriarch Dulwich Picture Gallery
Vanessa Bell, (30 May 1879 – 7 April 1961) the creative bohemian matriarch, artist, co-founder and muse of the Bloomsbury Group has her first major...
Jim Dine – Heart Surgery And Singing Poets A Beautiful Cacophony
Jim Dine, the American pop artist (born 1935) has unveiled a new exhibition of his latest works on paper at Alan Cristea in London. Working in...
David Hockney According To Himself – Review By Edward Lucie-Smith
It seems a long time since Tate Britain had a real blockbuster show. Even the Turner Prize, once a focus of popular attention, has received less and...
Bilbao Gongs And Bongs Paul Carey Kent The Guggenheim And More
BILBAO GONGS AND BONGS Paul Carey-Kent has just spent 30 hours in Bilbao, mostly focused on the opening of Abstract Expressionism at the Guggenheim...
American Abstract Expressionism Triumphs At The Guggenheim Bilbao
It is rare that I feel an exhibition is important enough to review twice on Artlyst but in the case of the Abstract Expressionism exhibition that...
A Rogues Gallery Of Art Dealers And Bureaucrats By Edward Lucie-Smith
There’s a fascinating new book just out. The candid title is 'Rogues’ Gallery: A History of Art and Its Dealers[1]. The author, Philip Hook, is...
Nadine Talalla Brings Life To Dead Abject Feelings of Womankind
The emergence of female artist’s in 2017 gives an opportunity to find discourse and insight into our contemporary culture, integration,...
