Reviews
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...
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...