The Guyanese-British artist Hew Locke worked for two years with staff across the British Museum to select objects with which to explore the cultural impact of British Imperialism.
25 November 2024
Francis Bacon is something of a Marmite painter. There are those who love him – his searing honesty and the existential search to extract the essence of a subject…
16 October 2024
If there is one exhibition you should see in London this autumn, it has to be Van Gogh: Poets and Lovers at the National Gallery…
15 September 2024
Until now, I have avoided writing about Tracey Emin in this series of ‘Significant Works’. It just seemed too obvious. She rose to fame on the crest of the YBA wave in the 1980s.
13 August 2024
Ukraine has long held a fascination. Family lore has it that my great-grandfather left Odessa in the 1890s, driven out by pogroms, to settle in the East End of London.
1 July 2024
Fifty years after The Dinner Party, Judy Chicago has a major retrospective at Serpentine North entitled Revelations. The name of the exhibition is taken from an illuminated manuscript Chicago created in the early 1970s whilst simultaneously working on The Dinner Party.
3 June 2024
The title of this show of British women artists from 1520-1920 at Tate Britain is highly apt. ‘Now You See Us’ contains just the right amount of ironic sang-froid
16 May 2024
Yinka Shonibare Suspended States Serpentine Galleries: When I was a small child – many millennia ago – much of the world map was pink.
21 April 2024
As much seems to divide the photographers Juliet Margaret Cameron and Francesca Woodman as unites them.
2 April 2024
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
The exhibition at the Courtauld focuses on a small group of pioneering charcoal drawings produced by Frank Auerbach in the 1950s and 1960s.
13 February 2024
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
I first came across Sheila Girling’s work when I reviewed her exhibition at the Pilgrim Gallery for The Independent.
13 January 2024
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28 November 2023
Brilliantly curated and one of the largest shows mounted by Tate Britain, Women in Revolt is a complete archive of the period.
16 November 2023
Frieze London arrived in Regent’s Park two decades ago. In the ‘noughties’, it hit the London art scene running, bringing a new razzmatazz to the selling of art.
13 October 2023
If you see only one show in London this autumn, then go to see the much-postponed Philip Guston at Tate Modern.
6 October 2023
The Tuner Prize was created, ostensibly, to promote public debate around new developments in contemporary art.
2 October 2023
Sarah Lucas’s solo show has just opened at Tate Britain. So, I thought it would be interesting to revisit one of her earlier works from 1992, Two Fried Eggs and a Kebab.
26 September 2023
The one thing I know about Ryan Gander before we meet to look at his new show at the Lisson Gallery is that he doesn’t want to be seen as a disabled artist.
20 September 2023
Jeremy Deller’s film The Battle Of Orgreave 2001 staged a re-enactment of the 1984 clash between mineworkers and police in Orgreave, Yorkshire.
14 June 2023
For many, it’s as much a part of the summer to-do list as Glyndebourne or Wimbledon. The RA’s Summer Exhibition attracts big crowds.
6 June 2023
I first came across the work of Isaac Julien when I was doing my MA in Creative Writing at UEA and did a module on black British film.
30 April 2023
Sue Hubbard looks at Damien Hirst’s Mother And Child (Divided) in her latest critical study for Artlyst’s Significant Works.
27 April 2023
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
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
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
‘The child,’ Wordsworth famously remarked, ‘is father to the man.’ Growing up in West Yorkshire, the land was always close to Andy Goldsworthy’s heart.
28 January 2023
Anthony Gormley Angel Of The North: We are enthralled by gigantic statues. The ancient Greeks referred to them as kolossoi.
24 December 2022
The title ‘Making Modernism’ implies that the artists included in this Royal Academy exhibition were at the forefront of the avant-garde. That they were an essential component in breaking the boundaries of 19th-century academic art for new freedoms. They would probably be very surprised to find themselves seen thus. It has taken more than a century for their importance to be re-evaluated and appreciated. Why? Because they were women.
16 November 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
9 November 2022
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
