Barbara Kruger I Shop Therefore I Am (1987/2019) – SIGNIFICANT WORKS – Sue Hubbard
Revisiting Barbara Kruger’s work in the 21st century, I’m struck by how much it encapsulates the tone of its times
18 March 2024
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Tacita Dean Disappearance at Sea 1996 – Significant Works – Sue Hubbard
Tacita Dean’s name gives a lot away. Her father, Joseph Dean, was a lawyer who studied classics at Merton College, Oxford and aptly named his children Tacita, Antigone and Ptolemy.
21 January 2024
Radium Dreams Poetry by Sue Hubbard Artwork by Eileen Cooper
Opening on International Women’s Day, Radium Dreams showcases a series of poems and artworks inspired by the remarkable life story of the Nobel Prize-winning scientist Marie Curie. A punchy collaboration between award-winning poet Sue Hubbard and acclaimed artist Eileen Cooper RA
27 March 2023
Frank Bowling Mirror 1964-66-Significant Works – Sue Hubbard
It’s been hard to choose a single painting by Frank Bowling for this series, to select one that is more significant in his long and illustrious career than any of the others. Each time his style has changed seems to have been a significant moment.
23 March 2023
Vermeer: Stillness and Light Rijksmuseum Amsterdam – Sue Hubbard
Delft was Vermeer’s city. Stand in front of his small painting, The Little Street of 1658 and you will see cobbles and a gabled brick house with leaded windows, just as you still see all around you in the city today.
14 February 2023
Antony Gormley Angel Of The North Significant Works – Sue Hubbard
Anthony Gormley Angel Of The North: We are enthralled by gigantic statues. The ancient Greeks referred to them as kolossoi.
24 December 2022
Artist Support Pledge Founder Matthew Burrows’ Solo Show – Sue Hubbard’s Much Loved Public Art Poem Finds A Permanent Home – Zavier Ellis And Mathew Gibson Launch New Contemporary Art Academy
Artist Support Pledge Founder Matthew Burrows Solo Show – Sue Hubbard’s Much Loved Public Art Poem Finds A Permanent Home – Zavier Ellis And Mathew Gibson Launch New Contemporary Art Academy
9 November 2022
William Kentridge Ubu Tells The Truth – Significant Works – Sue Hubbard
The white south African artist William Kentridge has used the play Ubu Roito to express his views against South African apartheid and its vicious attacks on its black citizens.
7 October 2022
Yinka Shonibare: Mr And Mrs Andrews Without Their Heads – Significant Works – Sue Hubbard
Mr and Mrs Andrews is arguably Gainsborough’s most famous painting. A young couple poses for their wedding portrait beneath an oak tree. Behind them spreads a bucolic view
24 June 2022
Cornelia Parker: Cold Dark Matter 1991 – Significant Works – Sue Hubbard
Cornelia Parker exploded a garden shed with the help of the British army. She’d contacted them for advice and was invited to the Army School of Ammunition
28 April 2022
Anish Kapoor: Svayambh – Significant Works – Sue Hubbard
In the fine elegance of Burlington House, with all its associations of white privilege, Anish Kapoor’s lumbering train conjured images of India’s overcrowded railway system
21 March 2022
Rachel Whiteread: House 1993 Significant Works – Sue Hubbard
Rachel Whiteread approached the last tenant, retired docker Sydney Gale to explain her desire to make an artwork out of his old home.
9 August 2021
Paula Rego: The Policeman’s Daughter 1987 Significant Works – Sue Hubbard
In an era when modernism was dictating that painting should abandon all connection to narrative, Paula Rego
6 July 2021
Eileen Agar: A Surrealist Trailblazer Whitechapel Gallery – Sue Hubbard
As a new young arts writer, I once went to Eileen Agar’s flat in Kensington. I honestly didn’t know who she was at that time. The flat was quite conventional, except for a few collages on the walls and her famous Bouillabaisse hat – constructed of cork and decorated with a large orange plastic flower, a blue plastic star, assorted shells, glass beads and starfish – sitting on a stand.
24 May 2021
Cecily Brown: The Girl Who Had Everything 1998 SIGNIFICANT WORKS – Sue Hubbard
What would Turner think? Would he even have recognised the artist collectives nominated for this year’s prize in his name as art?
13 May 2021
Tony Bevan RA Head 2004 – Significant Works – Sue Hubbard
Among contemporary painters, none has investigated what it is that makes us individual and human more eloquently than Tony Bevan.
9 February 2021
Jock McFadyen RA Popular Enclosure, 2005 – Significant Works – Sue Hubbard
Jock McFadyen is the psycho-geographer of the visual art world. ‘The laureate’, as Ian Sinclair has suggested, ‘of stagnant canals, filling stations and night football pitches’.
2 November 2020
Royal Academy’s Free Of Bombast Summer/ Winter Exhibition – Sue Hubbard
The Royal Academy Summer Show has an unbroken record. Still, this year, due to the pandemic, it’s being held in the winter rather than the summer
8 October 2020
Rachel Howard: Suicide Drawings – Significant Works – Sue Hubbard
Rachel Howard’s Suicide Paintings were first shown at the Bohen Foundation in NY, in 2007 and the following year at London’s Haunch of Venison gallery. Left shocked and devastated by the suicide of an acquaintance who was found kneeling in an almost prayer-like position, suicide was, she realised, one of the last taboos.
1 October 2020
Significant Works: A New Series Of Contemporary Art Essays By Sue Hubbard
In this new series, Sue Hubbard explores single works by leading contemporary artists.
1 September 2020
Hugh Mendes: The Inverted Gaze – Sue Hubbard
In 1972 John Berger suggested that “The relation between what we see and what we know is never settled.” The male gaze, he argued in Ways of Seeing, for centuries defined the way we looked at the female subject.
9 February 2020
London Art Fair’s Positive Spin On A Diverse Range Of Work – Sue Hubbard
Being asked to write about an art fair is a bit like being commissioned to write about Waitrose and compare tins of baked beans with sardines or chocolate biscuits.
22 January 2020
Dora Maar: Shedding The Muse Label – Sue Hubbard
In 1998 the first sales of the Dora Maar collection were put on sale in Paris. They revealed a life dedicated to photography, painting and poetry, executed in the city’s avant-garde milieu of the 1930s.
20 November 2019
Preservation Of A Much Loved Waterloo Public Art Poem – Sue Hubbard
In these grim times, we need all the art we can get. Public art feeds the soul as well as the mind. It provides spaces for contemplation in a gritty difficult world.
21 March 2019
Jock McFadyen Reveals His Royal Academy Summer Exhibition Vision – Sue Hubbard Interview
Jock is late for our meeting in the Academicians Room at the RA. Very late. He was stuck on a bus. I’ve known him for more than 20 years and figure that if we don’t have time to talk now we can always meet up in his home in Bethnal Green where, for ages, a group of us met to watch films on a Friday night
28 January 2019
London Art Fair 2019 Returns With Solid Foundations – Sue Hubbard
The New Year revels are over. It’s January, and the art world is back to work. The first sign of this stirring is the London Art Fair 2019 that returns to the capital from 16-20 January.
17 January 2019
Gillian Ayres My Fiercely independent Friend – Sue Hubbard
Yesterday the art world not only lost one of its finest and most loved abstract painters, but I lost a great friend.
12 April 2018
London Art Fair 2018 Sue Hubbard Has The Last Word
There was a time when the London Art Fair was the glitziest thing in the capital’s art world calendar.
20 January 2018