Reviews

Painter’s Painters at the Saatchi Gallery, curated, or at any rate with a catalogue introduction by Martin Gayford , co-author with David Hockney of...

Paul Carey- Kent chooses his pick for December 2016 through the new year. Installation view with Zone, 2016 Genevan artist Mai-Thu Perret has made...

I’m always left in two minds about Robert Rauschenberg. On the one hand, there is his enormous influence on the course of today’s contemporary...

A shipping container covered in graffiti sits among the dreaming spires of Oxford, and my partner hears a rather haughty voice remark '...Well I...

JANE ENGLAND: TURN AND FACE THE STRANGE a new book reviewed by Paul Carey -Kent Resisting obvious puns on her name, Jane England’s Turn and face the...

Grand as some of London’s so-called ‘commercial galleries’ now are, the British press still tends to forget that they exist. Editors and critics...

The Art of Rivalry is a relief in art critical terms. It is well and clearly written, with no pretentions. Sebastian Smee is currently the...

Damien Hirst has become a major patron, in addition to being a celebrated artist. When he stages a show at his Great Newport Street Gallery, which...

Modern Art Oxford presents its final exhibition in a series of shows celebrating the Gallery's 50th anniversary; concluding its KALEIDOSCOPE series...

I’ve just made a visit – a first but not the last, I hope – to the much talked about Hauser & Wirth set up near Bruton in Somerset. I already...

Walking the steps into the The Salon Art and Design show I really did not know what to expect. We are 2 days past the presidential election and...

When I visited the Royal Academy’s in many ways excellent new show devoted to the Belgian Symbolist/Expressionist painter James Ensor, I was,...