The Other Art Fair – But What About The Others? – Edward Lucie-Smith
I’ve always liked the Other Art Fair, on in London from now till April 2nd. But I’ve never quite known what to say about it.
2 April 2017
Reviews
Everyman His Own Artwork – Tate Modern – Edward Lucie-Smith Review
By the time you get round to reading this – I’m writing on the evening after the press preview – Tate Modern will have launched its latest enterprise – A BMW Tate Live Exhibition entitled Ten Days, Six Nights. It here’s now. It won’t be here long. In other words, blink and you’ll miss it.
29 March 2017
Maggi Hambling – Oil and Cigarettes On Canvas – Simon Tarrant Reviews
Maggi Hambling here, boomed a deep rasping well-spoken voice down my mobile, ‘I was told to call you back so here I am doing as I am told’. And as unlikely as it may seem that the indomitable Hambling would ever do as she was told, I find myself interviewing her mid-Howard-Hodgkin exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery.
26 March 2017
Howard Hodgkin Portraits The Insider’s Insider Review By Edward Lucie-Smith
Howard Hodgkin died just two weeks before the opening of the current retrospective of his work at the National Portrait Gallery.
23 March 2017
51% Remember Her – 100 Women Artists Exhibit In Plaistow
51% Remember Her – 100 Women Artists Exhibition: Heading down the Barking Road to E13 may not seem like the most obvious place to locate a large exhibition of art on International Women’s day. The venue being the splendid Memorial Community Church that contains a tower with a belfry and a grand balcony. Apart from the tower, which has functioned previously as a gallery, such architecture creates a challenge for a curator but also engenders an alternative experience with work constantly revealing itself in unexpected places.
22 March 2017
Eduardo Paolozzi – Halfway In Halfway Out Whitechapel Review By Edward Lucie-Smith
The current Paolozzi exhibition at the Whitechapel Art Gallery is, for an old stager like me, a bit of a puzzle. There was a time when Paolozzi was a very big deal – one of the major innovators in British art, the destined successor to the first generation of major British Modernists, chief among them Henry Moore.
20 March 2017
Refugee Artists Learning from The Lives Of Others – Revd Jonathan Evens
The Lives of Others is two exhibitions of work by German refugee artists at Ben Uri Gallery and Museum from 29 March – 18 June 2017, while Chaim Stephenson: Between Myth and Reality at St Martin-in-the-Fields (to Wednesday 10 May) showcases work by an artist with a lifelong concern for people driven from their homes.
19 March 2017
Revolution And Architecture – The Lights That Failed By Edward Lucie-Smith
The Design Museum’s new exhibition, Imagine Moscow: Architecture, Propaganda, Revolution, is in many respects a great improvement on its rather incoherent opening show (or collection of shows).
16 March 2017
Gillian Wearing and Claude Cahun Projections of Self National Portrait Gallery
Pairing the work of contemporary artist Gillian Wearing with the innovative early-twentieth century photographer Claude Cahun is an inspired choice by the National Portrait Gallery. Despite being born 70 years apart, the two female artists address similar themes around gender, identity, masquerade and performance.
9 March 2017
Michael Andrews A Coda Not A New Beginning – Gagosian Grosvenor Hill
The Michael Andrews show currently at Gagosian’s Grosvenor Hill Gallery offers a series of paradoxes, some perhaps intended by the gallery, others maybe not. It presents the artist (1928-1995) as a now half-forgotten figure, whose once substantial reputation has been overtaken by that of a number of his contemporaries.
8 March 2017
Ibrahim Mahama: An Artist’s Monument To Modern Ghana – White Cube
The first solo show in London of Mahama a young maitre in African contemporary art has been mounted at White Cube Bermondsey.
7 March 2017
Jo Brocklehurst Explores Gender, Punks And Fetish Clubs In Posthumous Exhibition
These enfant terribles of the art world pose, dress and act as if they had just walked out of one of the late Jo Brocklehurt’s artworks, an exhibition of which, “Nobodies & Somebodies” was opening at the House of Illustration at the same time on the same night.
6 March 2017
Armory Show 2017 Indicative Of Art Market’s Changing Economic Landscape
It’s a week of art fairs in New York. The Armory Show, held in a crowded, bustling convention center on the Hudson River is the biggest of the fairs and indicative of the art markets changing economic landscape.
5 March 2017
Bluecoat Tercentenary Celebrated With 106 Previously Exhibited Artists On Public View
2017 marks Bluecoat’s tercentenary, making it the oldest building in Liverpool city centre and the UK’s first arts centre: quite an achievement.
1 March 2017
Maria Lassnig Seamlessly Melding Figurative and Abstract Painting Hauser and Wirth London
There is no doubt that Maria Lassnig can paint. Whatever style from her early abstracts through to her figuration she handles paint fluently, her palette choices are selected with ease and confidence and show a debt to her Austrian heritage with more than a nod to Egon Schiele’s expressionist compositions and Oskar Kokoschka’s vivid colours and the European avant-garde. Her gestural brushstrokes are spontaneous, informal and expressive.
1 March 2017
March Choices – London Art Exhibitions 2017 By Paul Carey-Kent
Paul Carey-Kent publishes his March Choices 2017 – Up Now in a London Gallery near you.
28 February 2017
Crash Goes The American Dream c1930 RA Unveil Timely Painting Exhibition
Exhibitions in major galleries are usually planned years ahead. So it is the Royal Academy’s good fortune that their two excellent shows Revolution: Russian Art 1917-32* and American After the Fall: Painting in the 1930s, should be so in tune with the current political zeitgeist.
26 February 2017
Mersad Berber: Pera Museum Launches An Opulent Allegory of Bosnia
Mersad Berber (1940 – 2012) is one of the greatest and the most significant representatives of Bosnian – Herzegovinian and Yugoslav art in the second half of the 20th century
25 February 2017
Rembrandt Vs. Trump – The Leiden Collection, Revolution At The Louvre
Artlyst has travelled to Paris to the Musée du Louvre, which is currently presenting a selection of masterpieces by 17th-century Dutch painters from the collection of Thomas Kaplan and his wife, Daphne Recanati Kaplan.
24 February 2017
Restless Revolutionaries: A Timely Look At Russian Art By Edward Lucie-Smith
The R.A.’s new exhibition, hot on the heels of its magnificent Ab-Ex show, is entitled Revolution: Russian Art 1917-1932. That is, it aims to cover what happened in Russian art during the first period of Soviet rule.
13 February 2017
Liliane Tomasko Bridging Reverie And Reality Marc Straus NY
I would argue that the hardest thing to do, for a seasoned, well-trained, and technically savvy artist, is to paint like a child. After an impressive education at London’s finest art academies, how on earth do you find the faith to follow an innocent impulse? For artist Liliane Tomasko, it was motherhood that forced the new phase in her art practice.
11 February 2017
Vanessa Bell The Bloomsbury Group’s Creative Bohemian Matriarch Dulwich Picture Gallery
Vanessa Bell, (30 May 1879 – 7 April 1961) the creative bohemian matriarch, artist, co-founder and muse of the Bloomsbury Group has her first major exhibition in London at The Dulwich Picture Gallery.
11 February 2017
Jim Dine – Heart Surgery And Singing Poets A Beautiful Cacophony
Jim Dine, the American pop artist (born 1935) has unveiled a new exhibition of his latest works on paper at Alan Cristea in London.
9 February 2017
David Hockney According To Himself – Review By Edward Lucie-Smith
It seems a long time since Tate Britain had a real blockbuster show. Even the Turner Prize, once a focus of popular attention, has received less and less publicity recently, to the point where the dissidents of the Stuckist Movement can no longer be bothered to picket it, even when the annual prize exhibition is held here in London, and not banished to some deserving gallery in the provinces.
8 February 2017
Bilbao Gongs And Bongs Paul Carey Kent The Guggenheim And More
BILBAO GONGS AND BONGS Paul Carey-Kent has just spent 30 hours in Bilbao, mostly focused on the opening of Abstract… Read More
5 February 2017
American Abstract Expressionism Triumphs At The Guggenheim Bilbao
It is rare that I feel an exhibition is important enough to review twice on Artlyst but in the case of the Abstract Expressionist exhibition that was unveiled at the Royal Academy, earlier this year.
2 February 2017
Nadine Talalla Brings Life To Dead Abject Feelings of Womankind
The emergence of female artist’s in 2017 gives an opportunity to find discourse and insight into our contemporary culture,… Read More
30 January 2017
New York Exhibition Notes Curated by Ilka Scobie
It’s been a challenging time in New York City and art has provided some relief from politics. A recent roundup… Read More
28 January 2017
London Art Exhibitions February 2017 Chosen By Paul Carey-Kent
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.
27 January 2017
Desperate Artwives Explore Issues Of Personal Identity Loss And Motherhood
Desperate Artwives Exhibition is an exhibition of many voices; it is a collection of imaginative and engaging artworks made by members of the Desperate Artwives group. The works are brought together through the artists’ shared insistence on drawing the audiences’ attention to overlooked aspects of women’s lives.
22 January 2017
Paul Carey Kent’s Unofficial London Art Fair Awards 2017 Revealed
The verdict: “It seemed a little more even – and so a little duller – than usual this year”: less dire stuff, less outstanding material.
19 January 2017
Is Figurative Painting An Essential Form Of Art Making? By Edward Lucie-Smith
Painter’s Painters at the Saatchi Gallery picks up the theme of figurative painting as a still essential and central form of art making and tries to give it a new spin.
10 December 2016