London is a great city for art! Paul Carey-Kent regularly produces some of the best recommendations for London Art Exhibitions on a rolling basis. He currently writes freelance for a number of magazines including Art Monthly, Frieze, artcritical, Photomonitor, Border...
The finalists for the 2017 Absolut Art Award for Art Work and Art Writing have been announced. The 2017 Jury was led by Daniel Birnbaum, Director of Moderna Museet, Stockholm. The selected shortlist of six artists and five art writers for the Art Work and Art Writing...
When Maria Balshaw takes over from Sir Nicolas Serota at Tate (not yet officially confirmed as I write this, but a racing certainty), she takes over an empire that seems to be in excellent health. The new extension to Tate Modern has been a resounding popular success,...
Zachary Cole Fernandez, 30, the artist known as 'Jesus Hands' has been booked on a misdemeanor charge for the alteration of the iconic Hollywood sign. He voluntarily surrendered to police with his attorney at his side yesterday. Fernandez was ordered to appear in...
A new series of works by John Baldessari titled, Miró and Life, in General, will be the artist’s second major exhibition at Marian Goodman Gallery, London. Throughout his career, John Baldessari has explored the correlations and contrasts between painting and...
The artist, critic, poet, and Booker prize-winning author John Berger has died age 90. Best known in art circles for his essay on art criticism, 'Ways of Seeing', it accompanied a popular BBC series and is still used as a university text. Berger was a...
Of course, in the first place, if you use the phrase ‘Conceptual Art’ it depends on what you mean by the adjective ‘conceptual’. With a small ‘c’, please, rather than a great big overweening capital letter. In fact, it goes without saying that any worthwhile work of...
London in 2017 will play host to a number of truly exciting exhibitions from Russian art during and after the revolution; the queen of Bloomsbury Group Vanessa Bell, the first show dedicated to Queer Art from 1861-1967, sculptor Alberto Giacometti, a David Hockney...
Oh, what a year 2016 has been! Many of us won’t be sorry to see the end of it, although not to be overly pessimistic, 2017 will certainly have its challenges with both the Brexit economy and the new US President. Yes, the one with the bad haircut! On the Art front...