Reviews
Rauschenberg Prodigious Powers Of Innovation And Self-invention By Edward Lucie-Smith
I’m always left in two minds about Robert Rauschenberg. On the one hand, there is his enormous influence on the course of today’s contemporary...
Jimmy Cauty Delivers A Post-Brexit, Post-Trump Disaster-Scape. Merry Christmas
A shipping container covered in graffiti sits among the dreaming spires of Oxford, and my partner hears a rather haughty voice remark '...Well I...
Jane England’s Turn and Face The Strange A Time Capsule Of 1970’s / 80’s Demimonde
JANE ENGLAND: TURN AND FACE THE STRANGE a new book reviewed by Paul Carey -Kent Resisting obvious puns on her name, Jane England’s Turn and face the...
Ominous Walhalla: Anselm Kiefer’s Resoundingly Ambitious New Exhibition By Edward Lucie-Smith
Grand as some of London’s so-called ‘commercial galleries’ now are, the British press still tends to forget that they exist. Editors and critics...
Rivalrous Artists: Sebastian Smee The Art Of Rivalry Reviewed By Edward Lucie-Smith
The Art of Rivalry is a relief in art critical terms. It is well and clearly written, with no pretentions. Sebastian Smee is currently the...
Gavin Turk Both A Trickster And A Culture Hero By Edward Lucie-Smith
Damien Hirst has become a major patron, in addition to being a celebrated artist. When he stages a show at his Great Newport Street Gallery, which...
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...