Stephen Cox: Atavistic Sculptures Adorn Houghton Hall Norfolk – Sue Hubbard
Houghton Hall, in Norfolk, was commissioned by the first British Prime Minister, Sir Robert Walpole.
7 May 2025
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Jeremy Deller Unveils Roman Style Mosaic At Scarborough Coastal Art Trail – Sue Hubbard
Sue Hubbard went to Scarborough to see the completed coastal art and nature trail, featuring works by Jeremy Deller, Emma Smith, Ryan Gander, Shezad Dawood with Daisy Hildyard, Paul Morrison and Juneau Projects…..
1 May 2025
Giuseppe Penone Thoughts in The Roots Serpentine – Sue Hubbard
Giuseppe Penone’s show brings together Penone’s sculptures, installations and drawings from 1969 until now.
11 April 2025
Edvard Munch And His Inner Freudian Trauma – Sue Hubbard
The German-Polish writer and anarchist Stanislaw Przybyszewski described his friend, the artist Edvard Munch, as ‘a painter of the soul’.
16 March 2025
Goya to Impressionism Masterpieces from the Oskar Reinhart Collection – Sue Hubbard
“Even if such works may legally be owned by an individual, in a higher sense they belong to everyone, their… Read More
22 February 2025
Futurism and the Origins of Experimental Poetry Estorick Collection – Sue Hubbard
The early 20th century was an era of dramatic social and political upheaval. Futurism, the art movement that began in Italy, embodied a love affair with speed and new technology that ‘aimed to liberate Italy from the weight of its past’.
24 January 2025
Hew Locke: Thought Provoking Exploration Of Imperialism – British Museum – Sue Hubbard
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 – Human Presence – National Portrait Gallery – Sue Hubbard
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
Van Gogh: Poets Lovers And Emotional Directness – Sue Hubbard
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
Tracey Emin: My Bed (1998) – Significant Works – Sue Hubbard
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
In the Eye of the Storm Modernism in Ukraine 1900-1930s Royal Academy – Sue Hubbard
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
Judy Chicago Feminist Trailblazer Serpentine Gallery – Sue Hubbard
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
Now You See Us Women Artists in Britain 1520-1920 Tate Britain – Sue Hubbard
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 CBE: Suspended States And Decolonialised Structures – Serpentine – Sue Hubbard
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
Juliet Margaret Cameron and Francesca Woodman Photographic Storytelling – Sue Hubbard
As much seems to divide the photographers Juliet Margaret Cameron and Francesca Woodman as unites them.
2 April 2024
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
Frank Auerbach Intimate And Intense Charcoal Drawings Courtauld Gallery – Sue Hubbard
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 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
Sheila Girling Colour And Collage Clifford Chance – Sue Hubbard
I first came across Sheila Girling’s work when I reviewed her exhibition at the Pilgrim Gallery for The Independent.
13 January 2024
Tony Bevan: Epistophes and Heads – Ben Brown Fine Art – Sue Hubbard
An epistrophe is a word or phrase repeated at the end of a sentence to emphasise or heighten emotion. Derived… Read More
28 November 2023
Women In Revolt Tate Britain – A Brilliantly Curated Archive – Sue Hubbard
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 And Frieze Masters 2023 The Best And Some Of The Worst – Sue Hubbard
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
Philip Guston Tate Modern Worth The Wait – Sue Hubbard
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
Turner Prize 2023: A Regional Awakening – Towner Eastbourne – Sue Hubbard
The Tuner Prize was created, ostensibly, to promote public debate around new developments in contemporary art.
2 October 2023
Two Fried Eggs And A Kebab 1992 Sarah Lucas – Significant Works – Sue Hubbard
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
Ryan Gander A Principled Humanist By Sue Hubbard
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
God’s Little Artist By Sue Hubbard
God’s Little Artist is a biography in verse of Welsh painter Gwen John (1876 – 1939).
20 September 2023
Jeremy Deller The Battle Of Orgreave 2001 – Significant Works – Sue Hubbard
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
RA Summer Exhibition Polite And Figurative – Sue Hubbard
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
Isaac Julien: Mesmerising Black Heroism At Tate Britain – Sue Hubbard
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
Damien Hirst Mother And Child (Divided) 1993 – Significant Works – Sue Hubbard
Sue Hubbard looks at Damien Hirst’s Mother And Child (Divided) in her latest critical study for Artlyst’s Significant Works.
27 April 2023
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