A Tale Of Three Cities Paul Carey Kent Goes To Munich, Zurich And Basel
There’s more than enough to see at Art Basel and its satellite events, but travelling via Munich and Zurich made… Read More
28 June 2014
There’s more than enough to see at Art Basel and its satellite events, but travelling via Munich and Zurich made… Read More
28 June 2014
Skyscrapers cluster along the Wilhelminakade along the river Meuse, where the Object design fair took place in the stunning new … Read More
19 February 2014
ANYWHERE GOES IN DECEMBER Christmas, I hear, is coming. I’m tempted to ignore it on the basis that biennially would… Read More
7 December 2013
The old and the new sit easily with each other in Amsterdam, especially now that its three powerhouse museums have… Read More
2 October 2013
There’s plenty to enjoy in a long weekend in the Cologne area, even when a fair proportion of the commercial… Read More
23 August 2013
Manifold is the first full presentation of a new stream in the work of Anglo-Bangladeshi artist Rana Begum. She’s become known… Read More
20 April 2013
There’s more art in New York than anywhere else and Armory week boasted several fairs as well as the usual… Read More
25 March 2012
Obvious highlights of 2011 included Miro and Richter at the Tate, Leonardo at the National Gallery, Toulouse-Lautrec at the Courtald,… Read More
30 December 2011
It was tough being stuck in Miami while Britain jammed up in the coldest pre-Christmas period this century:
13 December 2010
Lisson is presenting a solo exhibition of new sculptures by Tony Cragg. The exhibition brings together a selection of animated and gestural configurations…
1 December 2025
Over the past four decades, Spanish artist Cristina Iglesias has developed a sculptural vocabulary, creating immersive and experiential environments that engineer nature…
11 November 2025
There are plenty of impressive shows timed to coincide with Frieze[i]. Still, I haven’t seen Eric Butcher featured in highlights lists…
18 October 2025
Seventeen is well worth a visit on its twentieth anniversary, as you can see both a celebratory group show with many of the gallery’s artists, and Bex Massey’s solo exhibition…
14 September 2025
For two decades, Emma Critchley’s subject has been the underwater world: she describes herself as ‘an artist who uses a combination of photography, film, sound and installation to continually explore the human relationship…
4 August 2025
It’s well worth visiting The Box in Plymouth for a remarkably comprehensive and superbly orchestrated retrospective covering more than forty years of Jyll Bradley’s practice…
4 July 2025
London-based German artist Nicole Wermers was Turner Prize-nominated in 2015 and features in the current Tate Britain hang. Her show ‘Tails & Fainters’, at Herald St….
10 June 2025
Richard Wright, who won the Turner Prize in 2009, is known primarily for his site-responsive, and usually temporary, ceiling and wall-based paintings…
7 May 2025
Ahead of a major autumn survey at Modern Art Oxford, Suzanne Treister is showing a new series of works, Hexen 5.0, together with a selection of her visionary Museum paintings at Annely Juda in London….
9 April 2025
Citra Sasmita grew up in the traditional Balinese Hindu culture. That flows into how her first UK solo show, ‘Into Eternal Land’, is not just visually compelling but has plenty behind how it looks….
9 March 2025
I spoke to Sheffield-based painter Ryan Mosley in his new show ‘Heavy is the Mountain’ at Josh Lilley: twenty-odd works full of figures…
22 January 2025
Daniel Silver populates Frith Street gallery with ten sculptural figures that place bronze heads atop blocks of marble. Ranged around like totems…
4 January 2025
I talked to Tamar Mason at Pippy Houldsworth Gallery, surrounded by her first UK solo show. In what looks initially like paintings…
1 December 2024
At 91, Michelangelo Pistoletto has been making his signature Mirror Paintings for over sixty years. Yet he is still looking for new directions for them…
26 October 2024
Diagnosed with cancer during the 2020 lockdown, Tracey Emin underwent radical surgery for bladder cancer. That hasn’t stopped her returning to art…
1 October 2024
Bharti Kher believes growing up as a young Indian person in an English suburb in the 1970s and 80s gave her a sense of being different…
9 September 2024
The Barbican is currently presenting some forty of Francis Alÿs’s films of children’s games, alongside his paintings and other related material.
17 August 2024
At 86, Nil Yalter is a star of this year’s Venice Biennale, where she is showing ‘Topak Ev’ and has been awarded the Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement.
6 July 2024
Permindar Kaur’s thirty-year career survey at the John Hansard Gallery, Southampton, is titled ‘Nothing is Fixed’. As that suggests, her work maintains ambiguity…
15 June 2024
Irish artist Trish Morrissey combines archival research and her biography to develop and play real and fictional characters, exploring women’s roles, the family and the body.
30 April 2024
For thirty years, Darren Almond has explored the nature of time through several distinct yet mutually reinforcing streams of work.
2 April 2024
The Perimeter is showing the work of Shuvinai Ashoona (born 1961), who lives in Kinngait (formerly known as Cape Dorset) in Nunavut, the largest and northernmost territory of Canada.
29 February 2024
Emma Cousin’s show ‘Tunnel Vision’ is the first in Niru Ratnam’s new space in Fitzrovia. The vibrant paintings were made either side of her giving birth…
2 February 2024