Reviews Archive

Arcadia: Grove Square Galleries The Marchioness of Bath Beckons – Simon Tarrant

The first black Marchioness in British history – beckoned the art world last week to a charity art auction hosted by London’s latest art...

Diasporan Identities: Life Between Islands Caribbean British Art – Tate Britain – Revd Jonathan Evens

Stirring it up or creolisation is taken by this exhibition as a defining characteristic of British Caribbean artists.

Chris Gollon: Gimme Some Wine – IAP Fine Art – Mary Rose Beaumont

Gollon’s work should be seen in the context of North European Painting. He is heir to the tradition which produced painters such as Breughel...

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

Paula Rego: An Intimate Look – Victoria Miro

The artwork of Paula Rego, whose career spans an impressive half-century, has been largely informed by her childhood in Portugal, the tension of her...

Damien Hirst A Mass Floral Tribute – Fondation Cartier Paris – Lee Sharrock

It came as a surprise to learn that ‘Cerisiers en Fleurs’ (‘Cherry Blossoms’) is Damien Hirst’s museum exhibition in France

Isamu Noguchi: Socially Engaged Art – Barbican Centre – Revd Jonathan Evens

Isamu Noguchi thought art should improve the way people live and believed sculpture could 'be a vital force in our everyday life.

Pablo Bronstein: A This-World Vision Of Hell – Revd Jonathan Evens

The work and practice of Pablo Bronstein addresses two common misconceptions. The first concerns art and is to do with the perception that the...

Laura Knight Documenting A Long Forgotten Britain – Sara Faith

Through its latest exhibition, Laura Knight MK Gallery hopes that a new generation will discover the work of this artist

Bosco Sodi: In The Beginning Of Wisdom – Revd Jonathan Evens

The Konig Gallery. This is an appropriate space for the display of Bosco Sodi's work which is taken from the ground and made on...

Women in Abstraction / Alice Neel People Come First – Guggenheim Bilbao – Paul Carter Robinson

Two exceptional touring exhibitions have converged at the Guggenheim Bilbao, one from the Centre Pompidou titled 'Women in Abstraction'. The other is a retrospective...

Lucy McKenzie Master Of Trompe-l’œil Tate Liverpool – Alice Lenkiewicz

It's a challenging and wonderful exhibition by a woman artist, Lucy McKenzie, Glasgow born, Brussels - based

George Condo Lockdown Works Hauser & Wirth – Revd Jonathan Evens

There is an explosion of paint at Hauser & Wirth in the latest exhibition by George Condo. The energies of emergence and encounter surge...

Theaster Gates Clay As A Profound Metaphor – Revd Jonathan Evens

In the beginning, there was Clay. Clay was without form. Thus begins Theaster Gates' 'A Clay Sermon',

Reflection A Journey Through Sunlight The Cello Factory Review

One of the notable characteristics of The Cello Factory is its copious natural light making it the perfect space for the “Reflection” exhibition, and...

Mark Rothko: Mesmerising And Intimate Works On Paper – Revd Jonathan Evens

Among Mark Rothko’s artistic philosophies, he held that painting was a deeply psychological and spiritual experience

Farsad Labbauf Revisiting Fragments and Entities – Isa Freeling

Do not miss Artist Farsad Labbauf's new show 'Revisiting Fragments and Entities', which opened recently in Chelsea at Roya Khadjavi Projects

Duncan Grant An Enigmatic Bohemian Rhapsody – Marina Vaizey

The artist Duncan Grant (1885-1978) was a charismatic, much-loved central figure in the Bloomsbury Group, a collection of friends, including the writer Virginia Woolf,...

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.

The Last Temptation of Christo – L’Arc de Triomphe: Wrapped – James Payne

James Payne has been to Paris to see Christo's wrapping of L'Arc de Triomphe. Napoléon's monument to himself has been turned into a memento mori...

Emily Speed: Body Architecture Tate Liverpool – Alice Lenkiewicz

Emily Speed's new exhibition at Tate Liverpool is based upon the human body and related very much so to architecture.

Rebound Ramblings: New York City Art Week 2021 RoundUp – Ilka Scobie

With major as well as offbeat art fairs, ranging from the Armory at the massive Javits Center (where I last went for my Covid...

Brash Is Beautiful – Yinka Saves The Day At Royal Academy Summer Show

Held every year since the Summer Exhibition is the world’s oldest submission exhibition with works selected and hung by Academicians.

International Autumn Art Exhibition Reviews – Revd Jonathan Evens

Periodic reviews of exhibitions around the globe can highlight a range of work in a range of styles in many different galleries.

The Lost Leonardo Film Review by James Payne

James Payne reviews the new film "The Lost Leonardo" directed by Andreas Koefed and encounters a thrilling journey through the murky world of art.

Mark Woods An Uncanny And Taboo World – James Payne

James Payne explores the curious world of Mark Woods in his exhibition Absorption at Cross Lane Projects, Kendal.

Roger Cecil: A Once In A Generation Welsh Painter – Revd Jonathan Evens

Aged 21, after just one week, Roger Cecil walked away from his scholarship at the Royal College of Art to make art on his...

Tino Sehgal: Location, Nature And Pandemic – Blenheim Palace – Revd Jonathan Evens

The female participant in Tino Sehgal’s ‘Kiss’ is stretched out on the floor, head arched, looking back, as her partner moves in slow motion

Lucian Freud: Real Lives In Focus Tate Liverpool – Alice Lenkiewicz

Lucian Freud - Real Lives is the first exhibition of his work in the North West for thirty years. Widely regarded as a master...

Edge to Edge The Cello Factory Review by Simon Streather

Edge to Edge features artists who use hard edges of some kind in their work but who are not necessarily defined by them. Simon...

Michael Armitage And The Power Of Art – Royal Academy – Revd Jonathan Evens

Meek Gichugu's No Erotic Them Say, included in this show, traumatised the imagination of Michael Armitage as a child.

Sidney Nolan: Colour of the Sky – Auschwitz Paintings – Revd Jonathan Evens

The Australian modernist Sidney Nolan was among those responding in this way, but his responses have remained unseen and unappreciated within his archive until...