Whatever Happened To Anthony Caro? – Three Reviews – Edward Lucie-Smith
Whatever happened to Anthony Caro? In Jonathan Jones’ new book about the history of British art from Hogarth to Banksy,… Read More
14 May 2019
Reviews
Jonathan Jones Sensations – Book Review – Edward Lucie-Smith
Jonathan Jones’ new book from Laurence King Publishing is a quality job. Entitled Sensations, it bears on its back cover a recommendation from none other than Tracey Emin, which reads as follows:“I never loved Jonathan’s writing when he slagged my work off! He is a true thinker: a brilliant art historian who can back up his opinion with more than just criticism.”
5 May 2019
Lorna Simpson Explores Race Gender and History At Hauser & Wirth NY
Native New Yorker Lorna Simpson has creatively explored race, gender and history for over thirty years.
5 May 2019
Bruce McLean Plus Three Other London Shows – Edward Lucie Smith
In a trough after its immediately pre-Easter excitements – Rembrandt at Gagosian, Sean Scully at the NG – the London art world looks faintly dreary right now.
2 May 2019
Recommended London Art Exhibitions May 2019 – Paul Carey Kent
The noted writer and curator Paul Carey-Kent gives us his rolling ten recommended contemporary art exhibitions May 2019
2 May 2019
Kathy Acker And I – ICA Retrospective – Paul Carter Robinson
I,I,I,I,I,I,I Kathy Acker is a fitting title for this quasi-retrospective exhibition which opened at the ICA on Tuesday night. In fact, it would have been even more spot on to have called the show Me,Me,Me,Me,Me,Me,Me Kathy Acker.
1 May 2019
Chantal Joffe: Her Own Sense Of Being – Victoria Miro – Sue Hubbard
Chantal Joffe Victoria Miro London: In his seminal 1972 book Ways of Seeing, the late John Berger claimed that: ‘A woman must continually watch herself…From earliest childhood, she has been taught and persuaded to survey herself…
27 April 2019
Figurative Abstraction And Meditative Dreamscapes Two London Shows – Edward Lucie-Smith
Currently, Huxley Parlour in Swallow Street, a location better known for its restaurants rather than for art, has a show rather mysteriously entitled Figurative Abstraction in Contemporary Painting.
23 April 2019
Sean Scully National Gallery – Rembrandt and Now Gagosian – Edward Lucie-Smith
At first glance, the Sean Scully show that just opened at the National Gallery in London couldn’t be more different from the exhibition not far away at Gagosian Grosvenor Hill. It features just one artist, rather than a series of well-known names.
16 April 2019
Raqib Shaw Landscapes Of Kashmir – Pace NY – Ilka Scobie
Kashmiri born, London based Raqib Shaw has created his first dazzlingly immersive and multicultural landscape series.
14 April 2019
Richter and Snyder Two London Spring Exhibitions – Edward Lucie-Smith
The Gerhard Richter show currently in the smaller of Gagosian’s three London galleries is maybe best described as “a bit of a tease”.
13 April 2019
Edvard Munch: Ibsenian Imagery And Isolation – Edward Lucie-Smith
A new exhibition of work by the Norwegian artist Edvard Munch now at the British Museum claims to be the biggest ever devoted to his work here in Britain.
11 April 2019
Johan Van Mullem – Unit London – Oliver Malin
Unit London & their emergence as a leading gallery brand on Instagram, (355K people can’t be that wrong?) are a serious force to be reckoned with. Surprisingly very few galleries have attempted to learn from these young social wizards, despite the fact they’ve proven how effective their approach to selling art via social media can be. The second solo show of the Flemish artist Johan Van Mullem is on display in the gallery until 13 April.
11 April 2019
The GHost Parlour – Sarah Sparkes – New Art Projects London
The GHost Parlour, Sarah Sparkes’ solo exhibition at New Art Projects London, intimately explores the theme of ghosts and spirits, a subject which has fascinated Sparkes and been the centre of her artistic practice for many years.
10 April 2019
Global Art And The Cold War – John J Curley – Book Review – Edward Lucie-Smith
It is not often that one comes across a book on contemporary, or near contemporary, art that shifts one’s view of what it is, how it has developed, and that direction those developments are likely to take in future.
8 April 2019
Recommended London Art Exhibitions April 2019 – Paul Carey-Kent
Shows To See: Up Now in London: Paul Carey-Kent gives us his focus on the London galleries and what to see for April 2019.
1 April 2019
John Kirby: The Torment Underlying The Civilised Facade – Revd Jonathan Evens
The art of painting is to still time and motion. As a result, the moment at which the artist chooses to freeze time is of real significance. The moments selected by John Kirby are those that reveal dis-ease.
31 March 2019
Passionate About Drawing: Roger Malbert Unveils Hand Drawn Action Packed – Clare Henry
For 34 years the wonderful Roger Malbert headed up Hayward Gallery Touring, overseeing literally thousands of contemporary art exhibitions that toured to public galleries & museums outside London & were seen each year by half a million folk in over 45 places. An amazing career, & a hard act to follow.
28 March 2019
Vincent Van Gogh His Very British Legacy – Edward Lucie-Smith
Tate Britain has one very good reason to offer us a Vincent Van Gogh show, which is that it is sure to raise attendances at an institution fighting to get them.
28 March 2019
Sorolla: National Gallery And Mike Nelson – Tate Britain – Edward Lucie-Smith
Two shows have just opened at major London institutions –Sorolla at the National Gallery and Mike Nelson at Tate Britain. Different as they are, they both give one cause to reflect on the current situation in British art. Indeed, about what is happening to British culture in general.
27 March 2019
Anne Imhof: The World As A Durational Techno Sex Performance
After catching only the last few moments of the atmospheric Faust (2017) at the 57th Venice Biennale, I was excited to discover that Anne Imhof was this year’s BMW Tate Live commissioned artist.
27 March 2019
Liliane Tomasko: Mapping The Human Psyche – Kerlin Gallery Dublin
In Liliane Tomasko’s current exhibition at Kerlin Gallery, the veil between the conscious and unconscious world is swept away.
26 March 2019
Paris Exhibitions March 2019 – Zoltan Alexander
Taking the last glimpse of freedom of our united Europe before the grand departure of Britain, (if ever), I went to Paris for precisely 30 hours to visit a handful of exhibitions everyone is talking about.
26 March 2019
Anne Imhof Sex Installation Opens At Tate Modern
A brand new large-scale commission by Anne Imhof has been unveiled at Tate Modern.
21 March 2019
Archaeologies Charlie Smith London – Davina Jackson Pontone – Edward Lucie-Smith
Two of the most consistent of these in terms of quality are Charlie Smith London, situated above a pub in Shoreditch; and the Pontone Gallery, just a step away from Sloane Square. Both of these galleries have just opened slightly unexpected shows.
19 March 2019
David Salle, Martin Parr and William Monk Kick Off The Spring Gallery Season – Edward Lucie-Smith
The London exhibition scene is currently so enamoured with dead avant-gardists that it was a pleasure to see work by the well-established American artist David Salle (b. 1954)
17 March 2019
Dead Artists Abound In New London Art Exhibitions – Edward Lucie-Smith
At the moment Tate Modern offers retrospective exhibitions of three very different artists – Bonnard (French), Franz West (Austrian) and Dorothea Tanning (American).
14 March 2019
Jeff Koons: Inflated Banality With An Impenetrable Surface – The Ashmolean – Paul Black
Jeff Koons has brought his blingy kitsch to the world’s oldest public gallery. The Ashmolean Museum in Oxford is presenting the master of hollow trinkets in an exhibition curated by Sir Norman Rosenthal and the artist himself.
11 March 2019
Henry Moore Helmet Heads Historic Armour And Modernism – Jude Cowan Montague
Henry Moore Helmet Heads: As an etcher, I have a long term interest in armour as one of the early applications of the process.
9 March 2019
Louis-Leopold Boilly And The 19th Century Parisian Bourgeoisie – Edward Lucie-Smith
Sometimes the dear old National Gallery here in London comes up with a nice surprise. Their new one-room, free entry exhibition is devoted to the work of the French painter Louis-Leopold Boilly, who lived from 1761 to 1845
9 March 2019
Ken Currie: Protest Defeat And Victory – Revd Jonathan Evens
Violence is to be found everywhere and at all times, even where people pretend that it does not exist. That is the argument made by Jacques Ellul, French philosopher, sociologist, lay theologian, professor, and noted Christian anarchist.
3 March 2019
The Renaissance Nude Exposed – Royal Academy – Edward Lucie-Smith
The RA’s new exhibition The Renaissance Nude, upstairs in the Sackler Wing of Burlington House, tackles an ambitious theme – the portrayal of the nude in Western art, from c. 1400 until the 1530s.
2 March 2019