Reviews
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...
Marilyn Marilyn Monroe Exhibition Curated By Whoopi Goldberg Unveiled In NY
Across the river from the city where Marilyn Monroe spent too brief a time seriously studying acting, looking at art, writing, reading and falling...
Looking Back at Frieze London 2016 by Edward Lucie-Smith
Never previously have the Frieze Art Fairs here in London seemed larger, grander, or surer of their place in the universe of contemporary culture....
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...
Above And Beyond Caravaggio: Just How Far Beyond By Edward Lucie -Smith
The new Beyond Caravaggio show in the sepulchral depths of the new wing of the National Gallery deserves to draw a large and enthusiastic public...