Peter Doig is one of those painters loved by the public and the cognoscenti alike. His vivid palette and the magic realism of paintings like White Canoe 1991 have brought him to a wide and varied audience
22 October 2025
The exhibition At Home in the 17th Century at the Rijksmuseum seems like a humble enterprise on one level. It may once have been considered rather a stoop for the national museum, but this exhibition on domestic interiors is curatorially ambitious on quite a few levels.
21 October 2025
The Nigerian Modernism exhibition at Tate Modern is massive. With work by over 50 artists from across 50 years to be displayed, the curators faced a dilemma as to how present so much from so many.
20 October 2025
GLASGOW PRINT STUDIO has come a long way since 1972. It’s now one of the leading, established names in printmaking in Europe and indeed worldwide….
18 October 2025
As the UK art world reels from the closures of major commercial galleries like Pace, Almine Rech close an imaginative grassroots revival……..
18 October 2025
There are plenty of impressive shows timed to coincide with Frieze[i]. Still, I haven’t seen Eric Butcher featured in highlights lists…
18 October 2025
It’s the season of mists and mellow fruitfulness.. The leaves are turning and the nights are drawing in. It must be time for Frieze….
16 October 2025
‘Can We Stop Killing Each Other?’ is, in the words of Jago Cooper, Executive Director of The Sainsbury Centre, a “wide-ranging exploration of human value systems,
14 October 2025
Dermot O’Brien (Not Only) But Also is one of the strongest shows I’ve seen in London for quite some time.
7 October 2025
The Hayward Gallery opens its Autumn season with a bang: Gilbert & George: 21st Century Pictures, a panoramic and sometimes immersive survey of the duo’s output…
6 October 2025
The American photographer, Lee Miller, had to break through a glass ceiling in a predominantly man’s world, continually reinventing herself from fashion model to becoming one of the very few accredited female war photographers of the Second World War
2 October 2025
Three distinct new shows at Hastings Contemporary. But what pulls them together is the vision of Kathleen Soriano, Director of Hastings Contemporary.
29 September 2025
One wonders if that study was done before Bradford was nominated this year’s City of Culture and became host to the Turner Prize…
24 September 2025
Kerry James Marshall has quietly glided into the RA on a red eye from Chicago O’Hare. Every blessed visitor who can make a pilgrimage…
24 September 2025
Tate’s new Picasso exhibition is not, we are told in the catalogue, “an exhibition that explores the relationship between Picasso and theatre”. It is a ‘gesture’ to “bring out new relationships [between his works] and audiences”.
17 September 2025
The Rijksmuseum has devoted its south façade and auditorium to Steve McQueen’s Occupied City, an audacious and urgent work…
14 September 2025
Radical Harmony: Helene Kröller-Müller’s Neo-Impressionists at the National Gallery is an exhibition about dots in painting.
14 September 2025
For four days, Rambert and (La)Horde Ballet National de Marseille take over the Royal Festival Hall (RFH) and Queen Elizabeth Hall (QEH) in a choreographic odyssey
9 September 2025
The 20th century’s greatest existential sculptor, Alberto Giacometti, is being shown with the Palestinian artist Mona Hatoum at the Barbican. It’s a risky move.
8 September 2025
Jean-François Millet began his career by painting idylls in imitation of 18th-century French painters but was increasingly moved by the spectacle of social injustice.
18 August 2025
Andy Goldsworthy has been hailed as a genius for his mega half-century retrospective, FIFTY, organised by the Scottish National Gallery at the Royal Scottish Academy as the centrepiece…
4 August 2025
In curating the Confluences exhibition, Rebecca Scott has deliberately sidestepped the standard artworld trope of the artist as exceptional, but inevitably isolated, individual.
30 July 2025
Textile art, often regarded as a peripheral craft, is currently riding a wave of critical appreciation. After ‘Unravelled’ at the Barbican and Tadek Beutlich…
27 July 2025
1989 was ‘Museums Year’ in the United Kingdom, a celebration of our cultural institutions which inspired Lubaina Himid to make a body of work that was displayed at Chisenhale Gallery in London in the summer of that year.
22 July 2025
Pablo Bronstein has created a series of drawings for Waddesdon Manor in Aylesbury, the former home of Baron Ferdinand de Rothschild, based on the Temple of Solomon in Jerusalem.
21 July 2025
Claudia Barbieri Childs visited Pallant House and the Ditchling Museum of Art + Craft in Sussex to see their latest exhibitions.
14 July 2025
It’s well worth visiting The Box in Plymouth for a remarkably comprehensive and superbly orchestrated retrospective covering more than forty years of Jyll Bradley’s practice…
4 July 2025
Sussex Modernism at Towner Eastbourne is a complex show that breaks out of its historical box to include contemporary artists… Read More
1 July 2025
When Marina Tabassum’s architects were invited to design the Serpentine Pavilion in Kensington Gardens, its 25th iteration since Zaha Hadid, they drew inspiration from the trees….
30 June 2025
When I walked into Jenny Saville’s exhibition, The Anatomy of Painting, this morning, my face split into a grin.
24 June 2025
Edward Burra and Ithell Colquhoun were both Surrealists, which makes you understand their twinning at Tate Britain
16 June 2025
London Gallery Weekend: Nico Kos Earle stalked these spaces with a critic’s eye and a flâneur’s instincts. What emerged wasn’t a coherent narrative, but something better…
12 June 2025
