Reviews
Theaster Gates: Powerful Mid-Career Retrospective For Major African American Artist
There’s a prescient timeliness to “True Value” – a powerful mid career retrospective of artist, anthropologist,...
What’s Up In Russia? Stop By London’s Pushkin House Cultural Centre
Few things are more confusing to the aficionado of contemporary art than the simple question ‘What’s going on in Russia?’ A...
Liverpool Biennial Is The Place To Be For Art This Summer
The ninth edition of the Liverpool Biennial got off to an impressive start last weekend with a varied array of events and exhibitions to see. Every...
Bloomberg New Contemporaries Unveiled For 2016 Liverpool Biennial
After a 30 year hiatus, the 2016 Bloomberg New Contemporaries has returned to the Bluecoat, Liverpool. The space works well with the installation...
David Hockney Yosemite Series: Digital Mischief In An Analogue World
Sly and obliquely, but also unmistakably, another Hockney show currently available in London, this time at Annely Juda Fine Art, the...
Greg Smith Explores Cross Section Between Art And Computer Science
New York - Greg Smith is not your run of the mill artist. Holding both a MFA from Hunter College and a PhD in Physics from Harvard,...
Elizabeth Price: New Whitworth Exhibition Creates A Story Within A Dream
‘IN A DREAM YOU SAW A WAY TO SURVIVE AND YOU WERE FULL OF JOY’, the current central exhibition at the Whitworth, Manchester,...
Georgia O’Keeffe On My Mind Edward Lucie-Smith Surveys The Retrospective
Georgia O’Keeffe, now the subject of a large solo show just opened at Tate Modern, is a slightly odd case in the story of American art. She...
London Art Exhibitions For July 2016 As Recommended By Paul Carey-Kent
Art critic Paul Carey-Kent gives Artlyst his recommendations for London Art Exhibitions around the Capital for July 2016. There are still...
RCA Photography Curiously Austere But Edgy At 2016 Degree Show
The work of this year’s RCA photography is curiously austere by the institution's’ standards. Some of the work is so straight as to make...
A Promenade Down The London Summer Art And Antiques Fair Corridor
Art and antique fairs are in full swing in London right now. On successive days I went to the VIP opening of Masterpiece, located near Chelsea...
David Hockney Portraits: A Panoramic Glimpse Into The Life Of A National Treasure
David Hockney has, after a much reported domestic catastrophe in Bridlington – the untimely death of a young member of his entourage...