The Art Diary April 2024 – Revd Jonathan Evens
The April 2024 Art Diary covers exhibitions as far apart as Salem, Massachusetts, Hong Kong, Venice, Cumbria, Welwyn Garden City and London.
3 April 2024
The April 2024 Art Diary covers exhibitions as far apart as Salem, Massachusetts, Hong Kong, Venice, Cumbria, Welwyn Garden City and London.
3 April 2024
Issam Kourbaj: Urgent Archive at Kettle’s Yard, with its concurrent exhibition ‘You are not you, and home is not home’ at Heong Gallery, is the largest solo exhibition to date by Cambridge-based Issam Kourbaj.
12 March 2024
The March Art Diary includes exhibitions at Kettle’s Yard, Gallery 1957, Dulwich Picture Gallery, National Portrait Gallery, Compton Verney, Stanley Spencer Gallery, Benjamin Rhodes Arts
4 March 2024
In the February 2024 Art Diary, the Revd Jonathan Evens looks at the Pre-Raphaelites, the works of Alison Lapper, Monia Sjöö and various group exhibitions, including shows at Cross Lane Projects, Drawing Room and The William Morris Gallery.
1 February 2024
The boundary-defying artistic practice of Li Yuan-chia, particularly through his LYC Museum and Art Gallery, turns aspects of modern art history on its head.
10 January 2024
In the January 2024 Art Diary, Revd Jonathan Evens looks at the work of Emrys Williams and Richard Kenton Webb and his links to Milton, William Blake, Markéta Luskačová and Oksana Kondratyeva.
2 January 2024
Antony Gormley has spent his career investigating the relationship of the human body to space. Through his fertile imagination, this has proved to be a seam that he can continuously mine, whether using his own body or those of others…
18 December 2023
Holbein at the Tudor Court is an exhibition of social history as much as it is an exhibition of art. The art on show is, of course, stunning, as Holbein is a great Renaissance artist.
11 December 2023
December’s art diary begins with books that would make interesting gifts this Christmas before focusing on our usual eclectic mix of exhibition
4 December 2023
For my November Art Diary, I highlight exhibitions in Cambridge, Venice, Hastings, Lisbon, St David’s, Cookham and Colchester
1 November 2023
Two artists whose dogged persistence with figurative art, in the face of more reductive critical perceptions of art, enabled us to reach this place of diversity are currently having major retrospectives in London: Philip Guston and R.B. Kitaj.
17 October 2023
The October art diary features several artists I have interviewed or featured previously who have work on display this month.
2 October 2023
The September Art Diary includes The Sainsbury Centre, The Barber Institute of Fine Arts, Cross Lane Projects, Strawberry Hill House & Garden, Chelmsford Museum and England & Co.
12 September 2023
Paula Rego and Richard Harries respond to the Western tradition of art and religion in different ways.
5 September 2023
Several recent exhibitions exploring legacies of the past, including that of colonialism, in order to posit creative ways forward in the future.
18 August 2023
Brittany played a significant role in developing Post-Impressionism and Pictorial Symbolism, with its Catholic culture a source of inspiration and Catholic artists among its pioneers.
17 August 2023
The July Art Diary includes exhibitions at Whitechapel Gallery, Hayward Gallery, Firstsite Colchester, Newport Street Gallery and Salisbury Cathedral.
13 July 2023
Chris Ofili shows a series of etchings entitled Pink Daydreams of a Faun alongside his paintings about The Seven Deadly Sins.
13 June 2023
The June Art Diary includes Gwen John, Marc Chagall, Louis Carreon, Peter Howson, Laura Knight, Cecilia Vicuña and Yun Hyong-keun
5 June 2023
Ai Weiwei’s work has always focused on bringing older craftsmanship into contemporary contexts while creating or using new languages.
31 May 2023
The National Gallery’s Saint Francis of Assisi exhibition explores how Saint Francis captured the imagination of artists, how his image has evolved over centuries.
10 May 2023
The May Art Diary by Rev Jonathan Evens covers new books and selected exhibitions.
8 May 2023
Sean Scully talks to Rev Jonathan Evens about his art, the creative process and nature.
30 April 2023
Critics have a problem with the Pre-Raphaelites. Reviews to date, of The Rossettis exhibition at Tate Britain, until 24 September
16 April 2023
In this month’s diary, I’m mainly reconnecting with artists, collections, movements and prizes I’ve featured previously in my writing.
12 April 2023
After Impressionism: Inventing Modern Art explores the period in modern art from the last Impressionist exhibition in Paris in 1886 to the eve of the First World War in 1914. In the words of co-curator MaryAnne Stevens.
26 March 2023
The ethos of art, art by everyone for everyone with anything, is what drives black artists from the American South.
23 March 2023
Nalini Malani’s work weaves together source materials drawn from different media and cultures in order to connect contemporary issues with history
12 March 2023
About one-third of the way into Donatello: Sculpting the Renaissance we encounter a ‘Virgin and Child’ tondo…
20 February 2023
2023 begins In Essex with a focus on female experience and perceptions of life changes, embodiment, and the world around them.
12 February 2023
Surveying current and upcoming exhibitions at the turn of the year provides evidence of the breadth and depth of the past and present engagement between art and spirituality.
4 January 2023
There was a time when Nativity exhibitions routinely featured among the Christmas offerings from London Galleries.
11 December 2022