Reviews

It’s been a challenging time in New York City and art has provided some relief from politics. A recent roundup of three current and very different...

London is a great city for art! Paul Carey-Kent regularly produces some of the best recommendations for London Art Exhibitions on a rolling basis....

Desperate Artwives Exhibition is an exhibition of many voices; it is a collection of imaginative and engaging artworks made by members of the...

Art critic Paul Carey-Kent has given us his pick of the crop for the London Art Fair 2017. The verdict: "It seemed a little more even - and so a...

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...