This compact, high-quality exhibition at the Courtauld offers a fascinating sociological and psychological puzzle. Entitled Soutine’s Portraits, and subtitled Cooks, Waiters and Bellboys, it features members of the inter-war underclass – specifically those who worked...
This Week, Edward Lucie-Smith Reviews Two contrasting Exhibitions At the Saatchi Gallery London ICONOCLASTS – Saatchi Gallery Until 7 January 2018 The Iconoclasts show just opened at the Saatchi Gallery suffers from a number of difficulties generic to enterprises of...
Turner Contemporary 0pens two exhibitions tomorrow which feature Margate's own Tracey Emin in one section and the work of the Swiss-born artist Jean Hans Arp in another. The Poetry of Forms is the first exhibition of Jean Arp’s work in the UK since 1966. As well as...
Autumn Contemporary Art Auction Round-up: A David Hockney landscapes '15 Canvas Study of the Grand Canyon' (1998), sold for £6,008,750 / $7,949,576 /€6,740,013 achieving the second highest price for the artist at auction, following the record set in Sotheby’s New York...
The two Frieze art fairs held simultaneously in London every year are now, according to received opinion, the biggest temperature taking, temperature raising events in the whole of the UK art calendar. As I write this, late on Thursday, after the fairs first fully...
Frieze is here again, and we've been crossing the days off since summer! Not only is this the buzziest week of the London autumn art calendar but it's a great time to discover new artists, watch performances by young talent and films by some of the most exciting...
Art Below are featuring the work of 28 international artists across billboard space at Regent's Park tube station for 4 weeks starting 25th September. Art Below have also commissioned artist Nina Mae Fowler to produce a portrait of the legendary Bernie Katz 'Prince...
Tate has published their Annual Report for 2016/17. The opening of the Blavatnik Building in June 2016 firmly established Tate Modern as one of the world’s greatest buildings for art in the twenty-first century, and the newly opened spaces attracted over a million...
I went to see the R.A.’s new Matisse show, but not at the press view, as I was abroad. I did go very shortly after it opened. Not unexpectedly, it was jammed with visitors, and I mean jammed. You had to dodge round backs to get a proper view of some of the smaller...