Reviews
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...
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...