Dia Al Azzawi is in every way shape or form a painter’s painter. His application and layering of colour can be rich and sublime like Matisse or Leger but also his use of monochromatic elements resembling newspaper clippings are a most powerful vehicle for getting his imagery to act as a mouthpiece for his politically charged subject matter.
24 October 2016
The Courtauld Gallery’s small, intimate, two room exhibition is devoted to a little-known body of work made by Rodin in the last two decades of his life. Rodin & Dance: The Essence of Movement 20 October 2016 – 22 January 2017 / The Courtauld Gallery
22 October 2016
Review of Mana Contemporary NY presents: Marilyn: Character Not Image September 25, 2016 – October 22, 2016 Curated by Whoopi Goldberg
18 October 2016
Never previously have the Frieze Art Fairs here in London seemed larger, grander, or surer of their place in the universe of contemporary culture.
16 October 2016
London is unusually rich in important exhibitions at the moment, and sometimes these events seem to enter into a dialogue… Read More
15 October 2016
The new Beyond Caravaggio show in the sepulchral depths of the new wing of the National Gallery deserves to draw a large and enthusiastic public and will in all probability do so.
13 October 2016
Turner Contemporary is presenting the exhibition ‘JMW Turner: Adventures in Colour’; and in association with the great British painter’s reflections on light, colour, and the sea, contemporary British artist John Akomfrah OBE presents his installation: the video triptych ‘Vertigo Sea’.
12 October 2016
‘Life imitates art, far more than art imitates life’, is the well known Oscar Wilde quote, suggesting the notion that… Read More
10 October 2016
The Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam is currently presenting a particularly experimental and mysterious artist from the Dutch Golden Age: Hercules Segers. This… Read More
10 October 2016
In Redhook N.Y. (upstate not Brooklyn) artist Laura Battle puts together puzzles, drawings, astronomy, symbols, signs, and transcendental visual universes. She… Read More
10 October 2016
“Richard was busy doing these pieces, and a trail of mud was going to the basement,” said Flavin Judd, curator of… Read More
10 October 2016
The Guggenheim Museum Bilbao is currently featuring a retrospective of the 20th century British/Irish artist Francis Bacon. Considered one of… Read More
3 October 2016
In the past, David Hockney has frequently irritated art history professionals with his insistent theorising about how certain kinds of Old Master paintings… Read More
1 October 2016
Since its heyday in the 1990s, when it helped to establish the reputation of the last really significant art movement in Britain – or perhaps anywhere else – that of the so-called YBAs or Younger British Artists – the Turner Prize has been in decline.
27 September 2016
The experience of exile, deracination, was fundamental to Wifredo Lam’s career as an artist, even more so that it was too… Read More
24 September 2016
The new Abstract Expressionism show that just opened in the main galleries of the Royal Academy at Burlington House, is an… Read More
22 September 2016
A major exhibition of work by the South African artist William Kentridge opens at the Whitechapel Gallery on Wednesday. Artlyst… Read More
20 September 2016
On entering the exhibition, it is slightly dark and there is a warm familiar and welcoming atmosphere if not slightly nostalgic…. Read More
20 September 2016
Modern Art Oxford is currently presenting the final exhibition from Platform 2016, created to support the work of up &… Read More
19 September 2016
Ok, so it isn’t Basel, or even Frieze for that matter, but ABC provides something a bit different from the… Read More
18 September 2016
Louise Nevelson was one of the relatively few female artists to make a major stir in the furiously competitive environment of the New York art world.
13 September 2016
Paul Carey-Kent gives us his pick of the best London Art Exhibitions for September 2016 David Korty @ Sadie Coles, 1… Read More
12 September 2016
The V&A’s new, all singing all dancing exhibition has a cumbersome title: You Say You want A Revolution? – Records and Rebels… Read More
9 September 2016
Artangel has created what is likely to be the most thought-provoking exhibition of 2016. Known mostly for their solo projects,… Read More
1 September 2016
‘It’s Me to the World’ is Modern Art Oxford’s fourth exhibition and iteration of KALEIDOSCOPE, a celebration of 50 years… Read More
25 August 2016
Marking Time in America: The Prison Works (2009-2013) is not a summer curatorial flirtation with an artist just out of Grad School. Instead,… Read More
21 August 2016
In the midst of an August heat wave, art, music, and harmony presided over a South Bronx waterfront warehouse. After a huge… Read More
18 August 2016
Raqib Shaw seems like one of those grandee artists who have suddenly appeared out of nowhere. That is, till you do… Read More
4 August 2016
Now in London: Paul Carey Kent unlocks his choices of the best exhibitions in town in August 2016. Sam Lewitt… Read More
31 July 2016
Art Bermondsey Project-Space is home to ‘Not One: But The Other’ until July 29th. The ten artists involved are part of Marcus Harvey’s… Read More
31 July 2016
A new installation by the Turner Prize winning artist Mark Wallinger, curated by Natasha Hoare, opened last night at the Freud Museum… Read More
29 July 2016
At The Hepworth Wakefield, large light-filled gallery spaces more familiar with the wieldy steel sculpture of Anthony Caro or the… Read More
28 July 2016
