Two new exhibitions of work by the highly regarded painter Victor Willing (1928-1988) are currently on display at Hastings Contemporary and the Turps Gallery in S.E. London. The retrospective in Hastings is the first significant show of his work since his untimely...
Sotheby's has announced the appointment of Charles F. Stewart as Chief Executive Officer, effective immediately. Mr. Stewart succeeds Tad Smith, who served as CEO of Sotheby's since 2015. Underscoring his confidence in Sotheby's long-term success, Mr. Smith who will...
Lucian Freud / Antony Gormley, two shows at the RA, both by contemporary British artists. Apparently very different from one another, yet with one major characteristic in common. What is it? An unrelenting focus on the self, rather than on anything in the larger world...
A short time ago, it seemed as if making and publishing books about art – contemporary art, in particular, was a doomed enterprise. Everything of that kind was moving on to the web. Hereafter all we would need to do if we were curious to know what was happening in...
Hastings Contemporary is to mount the first major UK retrospective of work by British artist Victor Willing (1928-1988) since his death, charting each decade of his tumultuous life and career from his time at the Slade, his life in Portugal, and back to London and his...
2019 is the 80th anniversary of the beginning of World War II, which not only led to almost countless millions of deaths but waves of refugees seeking sanctuary where they could, beginning in the mid-1930s. Brave New Visions, this special exhibition at Sotheby's...
There can be no doubt that Art-Exit: 1939, at the 12 Star Gallery in Europe House, Smith Square, is a highly political exhibition. Though it is subtitled ‘A Very Different Europe’ it is also about the way things are right now, and it is no accident that it is on show...
As already stated on this site, Leon Kossoff’s death on July 4 marked pretty much the end of an epoch. Of the for artists who led the so-called School of London – Bacon, Freud, Kossoff and Auerbach – only Auerbach now survives. In one way his paintings are now...
The death of Leon Kossoff, who died on 4 July after a short illness is nearly the end of an era for the great wave of British painting known as the School of London. I think of painting as a form of drawing - LK 1979 Kossoff was born in Islington, and spent most of...