Reviews
JMW Turner And John Akomfrah: Ocean Drama At Turner Contemporary
Turner Contemporary is presenting the exhibition 'JMW Turner: Adventures in Colour'; and in association with the great British painter's reflections...
Crossroads Art Fair A Beautiful Collation Of Thought Provoking Global Art
‘Life imitates art, far more than art imitates life’, is the well known Oscar Wilde quote, suggesting the notion that we look for significance in...
Hercules Segers And Frans Post: A Very Contemporary Golden Age At Rijksmuseum
The Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam is currently presenting a particularly experimental and mysterious artist from the Dutch Golden Age: Hercules Segers....
Laura Battle Touches the Celestial Heavens with Her Paint Brush
In Redhook N.Y. (upstate not Brooklyn) artist Laura Battle puts together puzzles, drawings, astronomy, symbols, signs, and transcendental visual...
Richard Long Exhibits At The Judd Foundation In New York
“Richard was busy doing these pieces, and a trail of mud was going to the basement,” said Flavin Judd, curator of the Judd foundation. Created...
Francis Bacon Guggenheim Bilbao Exhibition Reveals Influences Of The Great Masters
The Guggenheim Museum Bilbao is currently featuring a retrospective of the 20th century British/Irish artist Francis Bacon. Considered one of the...
David Hockney: His Own Brand Of Art History By Edward Lucie-Smith
In the past, David Hockney has frequently irritated art history professionals with his insistent theorising about how certain kinds of Old Master...
UP YOURS! The Turner Prize Is Relevant Again Almost – By Edward Lucie-Smith
Since its heyday in the 1990s, when it helped to establish the reputation of the last really significant art movement in Britain – or perhaps...
Wifredo Lam A Life Of Exile And Deracination By Edward Lucie-Smith
The experience of exile, deracination, was fundamental to Wifredo Lam’s career as an artist, even more so that it was too – say – the experience of...
Abstract Expressionism The Dark Triumph Of American Art By Edward Lucie Smith
The new Abstract Expressionism show that just opened in the main galleries of the Royal Academy at Burlington House, is an absolutely splendid...
William Kentridge Returns With First London Public Exhibition In Fifteen Years
A major exhibition of work by the South African artist William Kentridge opens at the Whitechapel Gallery on Wednesday. Artlyst was at the press...
Tracey Emin and William Blake Not Such Strange Bedfellows Tate Liverpool
On entering the exhibition, it is slightly dark and there is a warm familiar and welcoming atmosphere if not slightly nostalgic. Tracy Emin's...