Reviews
Modern Art Oxford, The Vanished Reality: Temporal, Sociological, And Cultural Locations
Modern Art Oxford presents its final exhibition in a series of shows celebrating the Gallery's 50th anniversary; concluding its KALEIDOSCOPE series...
Bourgeois Bliss in Somerset Edward Lucie-Smith Gets His Wellies On
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...
Salon Design and Art Show Park Avenue Armory New York 2016
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...
Radical Ensor At The RA – Review By Edward Lucie-Smith
When I visited the Royal Academy’s in many ways excellent new show devoted to the Belgian Symbolist/Expressionist painter James Ensor, I was,...
Sean Scully – Paint Speaks Louder Than Words By Edward Lucie – Smith
Sean Scully now increasingly seems like the most remarkable abstract painter of his generation – this, at a time when abstract art,...
FIAC 2016 a cheerful moment in Paris
I love Paris … and even more during FIAC. This year, in particular, the city of lights became the vibrant hub of the Art World with its incredible...
Paul Nash – A Modernist Paradox by Edward Lucie-Smith
The elegant new Paul Nash retrospective just opened at Tate Britain offers a welcome contrast to some of the dismal offerings that have been...
Thirty Hours Of Art In Amsterdam By Paul Carey Kent
Paul Carey-Kent travels to Amsterdam to report 'DAUBIGNY, MONET, VAN GOGH AND MORE: 30 HOURS IN AMSTERDAM' Daubigny, Monet, Van Gogh: Impressions of...
Picasso Portraits – master of transformations at National Portrait Gallery by Edward Lucie-Smith
London is unusually rich in important exhibitions at the moment, and sometimes these events seem to enter into a dialogue with each other. This is...
Hepworth Prize For Sculpture: Conceptual, Kinetic, Buoyant And Poetic
Finally, the UK has a sculpture prize - The Hepworth Prize for Sculpture - at The Hepworth, Wakefield. The prize has been created to celebrate the...
Dia Al Azzawi Conflict And Humanitarian Crisis Starkly Depicted In Paint
Dia Al Azzawi is in every way shape or form a painter’s painter. His application and layering of colour can be rich and sublime like Matisse or...
Rodin’s Relationship To Dance Explored In New Unashamedly Academic Courtauld Exhibition
'To express a movement in all its character and truth, it is important that it be at once the result of the successive moments that have preceded...