Louise Bourgeois: Vision Of The Safe Womb – Hayward Gallery – Sue Hubbard
is a mythmaker and a storyteller. A chronicler of the self who has used her life to create narratives that speak of female desire
13 February 2022
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Francis Bacon: Birth Copulation And Death – Royal Academy – Sue Hubbard
If there is one image that Bacon made his own above any other, it is the mouth contorted in a scream or grimace.
27 January 2022
Frank Auerbach: Head of E.O.W.II – Significant Works – Sue Hubbard
The painter Frank Auerbach, sent in 1939 to England learned years later, that his parents had perished in Auschwitz.
25 January 2022
Marlene Dumas: Oscar Wilde and Bosie – Significant Works – Sue Hubbard
Marlene Dumas’ portraits of the writer Oscar Wilde (1854–1900) and his young lover, Lord Alfred Douglas (1870–1945), known as ‘Bosie’, illustrate that social attitudes do change
18 December 2021
Lubaina Himid: So Many Competing Ideas Tate Modern – Sue Hubbard
She’s the oldest artist to have won the Turner Prize (she is now 67). Born in Zanzibar, Lubaina Himid returned
30 November 2021
Richard Wilson 20:50 Significant Works First Created 1987 – Sue Hubbard
Richard Wilson 20:50: Nearly one-hundred-and-five years after Marcel Duchamp’s porcelain urinal was daubed with the pseudonym ‘R..Mutt.’
1 November 2021
Alice Maher Rachel Fallon Explore The Magdalene – Sue Hubbard
Sue Hubbard visited Dublin to see The Map: A Collaboration by Alice Maher and Rachel Fallon at Rua Red Gallery.
If you were born in heathen England, you may not be too familiar with Mary Magdelene. You might even think she’s the same Mary that sits wrapped in a blue sheet beside the lad sporting a striped tea towel, pretending to be Joseph in the school nativity.
20 October 2021
Turner Prize 2021: A Collective Experience – Sue Hubbard
In a year dominated by the pandemic, it was decided not to award the Turner Prize to an individual but to a collective.
2 October 2021
Chris Ofili: The Holy Virgin Mary – Significant Works – Sue Hubbard
Mayor Rudy Giuliani – threatened to close it on the grounds that the image of Chris Ofili’s The Holy Virgin Mary was religiously offensive.
29 September 2021
Shape Chroma: Katrina Blannin, Caroline List, Laurence Noga At Tension Fine Art By Sue Hubbard
Shape Chroma: Tension London: Newton and Goethe famously disagreed on the genesis of colour. Most commentary assumes Goethe was wrong.
13 September 2021
Sean Scully: Paul 1984 Significant Works – Sue Hubbard
To interpret, through paint, what verbal language cannot. No contemporary painter does this better than Sean Scully.
1 September 2021
Rachel Whiteread: House 1993 Significant Works – Sue Hubbard
Rachel Whiteread approached the last tenant, retired docker Sydney Gale to explain her desire to make an artwork out of his old home.
9 August 2021
Paula Rego: The Policeman’s Daughter 1987 Significant Works – Sue Hubbard
In an era when modernism was dictating that painting should abandon all connection to narrative, Paula Rego
6 July 2021
Cacophony: Four Iranian Artists AB-ANBAR Cromwell Place – Sue Hubbard
Few in the West will have been to Tehran. We are either likely to think of an exotic Persia full of sultans and hareems
11 June 2021
Eileen Agar: A Surrealist Trailblazer Whitechapel Gallery – Sue Hubbard
As a new young arts writer, I once went to Eileen Agar’s flat in Kensington. I honestly didn’t know who she was at that time. The flat was quite conventional, except for a few collages on the walls and her famous Bouillabaisse hat – constructed of cork and decorated with a large orange plastic flower, a blue plastic star, assorted shells, glass beads and starfish – sitting on a stand.
24 May 2021
Cecily Brown: The Girl Who Had Everything 1998 SIGNIFICANT WORKS – Sue Hubbard
What would Turner think? Would he even have recognised the artist collectives nominated for this year’s prize in his name as art?
13 May 2021
Mona Hatoum: The Light at the End 1989 Significant Works – Sue Hubbard
I first saw Mona Hatoum’s installation The Light at the End at The Showroom in East London in 1989.
20 April 2021
Mark Wallinger State Britain 2007 – Significant Works – Sue Hubbard
In this series, Sue Hubbard explores Mark Wallinger State Britain 2007 an artwork and Turner Prize winning exhibition at the Tate Gallery.
2 March 2021
Tony Bevan RA Head 2004 – Significant Works – Sue Hubbard
Among contemporary painters, none has investigated what it is that makes us individual and human more eloquently than Tony Bevan.
9 February 2021
Richard Long: A Line Made By Walking 1967 – Significant Works – Sue Hubbard
In 1967, Richard Long a young Bristol artist made a line in the grass of a field by walking backwards and forwards and called it A LINE MADE BY WALKING.
7 January 2021
Jenny Saville Propped 1992 Significant Works – Sue Hubbard
Not long after Jenny Saville had left art school in Glasgow. As yet she was unwritten about and unknown. I was taken aback by its power and wrote a short review for Time Out.
1 December 2020
Mary Wollstonecraft: A Lumpen Statue By Maggie Hambling – Sue Hubbard
It’s been quite a year for statues. Normally no more than street furniture that no one bothers to look at – old white men standing on plinths in all weathers extolling some arcane ‘victory’ of the Empire
12 November 2020
Jock McFadyen RA Popular Enclosure, 2005 – Significant Works – Sue Hubbard
Jock McFadyen is the psycho-geographer of the visual art world. ‘The laureate’, as Ian Sinclair has suggested, ‘of stagnant canals, filling stations and night football pitches’.
2 November 2020
Zanele Muholi Explores A Black Queer And Trans South Africa – Sue Hubbard
“I am re-writing a Black Queer and Trans visual history of South Africa for the world to know of our existence, resistance and persistence” -Zanele Muholi
1 November 2020
Royal Academy’s Free Of Bombast Summer/ Winter Exhibition – Sue Hubbard
The Royal Academy Summer Show has an unbroken record. Still, this year, due to the pandemic, it’s being held in the winter rather than the summer
8 October 2020
Rachel Howard: Suicide Drawings – Significant Works – Sue Hubbard
Rachel Howard’s Suicide Paintings were first shown at the Bohen Foundation in NY, in 2007 and the following year at London’s Haunch of Venison gallery. Left shocked and devastated by the suicide of an acquaintance who was found kneeling in an almost prayer-like position, suicide was, she realised, one of the last taboos.
1 October 2020
Significant Works: A New Series Of Contemporary Art Essays By Sue Hubbard
In this new series, Sue Hubbard explores single works by leading contemporary artists.
1 September 2020
Marc Quinn: Alison Lapper Pregnant 2005 – Significant Works – Sue Hubbard
Marc Quinn: Alison Lapper Pregnant 2005: From gym ads to dating apps, from T.V. programmes on plastic surgery to how to look ten years younger, our contemporary obsession with the body beautiful is one that many ancient Greeks would recognise.
1 September 2020
Peter Doig: White Canoe 1990/1 – Significant Works – Sue Hubbard
Born in Scotland and raised in Trinidad and Canada, Peter Doig is widely considered one of the most renowned contemporary figurative painters of his generation
2 August 2020
Kara Walker: Fons Americanus – Significant Works – Sue Hubbard
In this new series, art critic, Poet and novelist Sue Hubbard discusses seminal contemporary artworks
5 July 2020
Art In The Time Of COVID19 – Sue Hubbard
First, the Louvre in Paris closed. Then the galleries in London started to shut their doors, one by one, like the “lamps going out all over Europe” as the British Foreign Secretary, Sir Edward Grey remarked on the eve of the First World War, adding “We shall not see them lit again in our lifetime.”
18 March 2020
Caravaggio / Bernini: Baroque Wonderment Vivacity And Horror – Sue Hubbard
Most great artistic movements begin as a reaction to the art and times that precede them. Impressionism in the 19th century. Surrealism, Dadaism and the YBAs in the 20th c. Baroque began in Rome around 1600 in response to the austere 17th-century Protestant culture of the Netherlands.
15 February 2020