Re-enchantment, magnification and framing; are some of the approaches utilised in three shows which demonstrate the diversity and vitality of the contemporary art world. Les Lalanne, the late French wife and husband artistic duo, are the dreamers who re-enchant. As...
Several exhibitions/installations in Venice during the 59th Biennale re-situate key works or themes from Christianity's historic engagement with the Arts, in some cases overlaying biblical narrative onto the present. Diplomazija astuta at the Malta Pavilion reimagines...
As one of the most significant sculptors of the 20th century, Jacob Epstein pushed societal boundaries and confounded neat classification in his works. Contemporary street artist Louis Carreon invites the viewer to re-think aspects of reality and the place of all in...
Everything Damien Hirst does is controversial, from the initial shock of the new - the sensation of the YBAs - through his use of assistants, his choice of materials, the ethics of his use of animals, the plagiarism claims, the claims and counterclaims of 'bad art,'...
As Artist in Residence for a vast and imposing collection such as that of the National Gallery, there is a clear need to establish a particular niche or focus. For Ali Cherri, as an artist growing up in Lebanon during the Civil War, embodying traumatic experiences of...
Audrey Flack found her signature style during the 1960s. Originally an Abstract Expressionist, she moved through New Realism to Photorealism. Her inspiration, though, derives from hyper-baroque works, including those of Carlo Crivelli and Luisa Roldán. Crivelli, she...
Surrealism: Beyond Borders presents an expansive and hugely varied retelling of the story of Surrealism that challenges the Paris-centric traditional art history tale of its flourishing. Movements move – it’s in the name – through change and development. Yet, the...
Living through the pandemic and re-reading an article from 2003 by Steven Vincent on her Crucifixion sculpture, fashioned as a response to 9/11, made Rachel Feinstein want to use religious iconography in her work again. The result is Mirror, her current art exhibition...
In a letter to his brother Theo, Vincent Van Gogh wrote, ‘I’d like to paint men or women with that je ne sais quoi of the eternal, of which the halo used to be the symbol, and which we try to achieve through the radiance itself, through the vibrancy of our...