14 September 2019
William Blake: Personal Realms Of Fantasy – Edward Lucie-Smith
William Blake is one of the heroes of British art. In some ways, however, his work fits uncomfortably into the current establishment set up.
Reviews
9 September 2019
Peter Doig and Parisian Avant-Gardists Launch London Autumn Gallery Season – Edward Lucie Smith
Two exhibitions just opened at a pair of well-respected West End commercial galleries here in London, seem to illustrate the complexity of the contemporary...
5 August 2019
Urban Impulses Latin American Photography The Photographers’ Gallery London – Edward Lucie-Smith
Urban Impulses, the new exhibition at The Photographers’ Gallery here in London, exemplifies the reasons why contemporary photography now so often seems to take...
1 August 2019
Cut And Paste: NGS Launches First-Ever Collage Survey Exhibition – Clare Henry
Billed as the first-ever COLLAGE survey exhibition in the world, this Edinburgh Festival fun extravaganza of 400 years of cut and paste art encompasses...
31 July 2019
Company Curiosities: A Clash of Cultural Objects – Edward Lucie-Smith
I have personal reasons to be interested in this book – Company Curiosities, by Arthur Macgregor. A direct ancestor of mine, not however mentioned...
25 July 2019
Helene Schjerfbeck Finland’s Best Kept Secret – Marina Vaizey
Is the Finnish painter Helene Schjerfbeck (1862-1946) the most fascinating artist the anglophone world has never heard of? The fashionable preoccupation with women artists...
25 July 2019
Ed Moses Qin Feng Blain|Southern London – Edward Lucie-Smith
The current Ed Moses paintings on display at Blain/Southern represent only a snippet of a very varied career.
23 July 2019
Emigrés Who Transformed the British Art World – Marina Vaizey
Brave New Visions, this special exhibition at Sotheby's George Street galleries, is a tell and show of the ways in which Britain's insular art...
18 July 2019
Art Exit 1939 – A Very Different Or Analogous Europe – Edward Lucie-Smith
There can be no doubt that Art-Exit: 1939, at the 12 Star Gallery in Europe House, Smith Square, is a highly political exhibition.
14 July 2019
Charlie Smith London Is 10 – Edward Lucie-Smith
The new show at Charlie Smith London celebrates, as the handout tells you, “a full decade’s operations in Shoreditch”. Within that period, the gallery...
14 July 2019
Fact Liverpool: Real Work Two Exhibitions – Alice Lenkiewicz
Liz Magic Laser has created an exhibition on the ground floor of Fact Liverpool as part of Real Work. This is an absorbing show...
10 July 2019
Olafur Eliasson: Work That Is Right Here Right Now – Edward Lucie-Smith
Olafur Eliasson is now a very big deal in the world of contemporary art
9 July 2019
Talking Maps: Geocentric Eccentricity At The Bodleian Library – Paul Black
Artlyst has attended Talking Maps, a new exhibition at the famous Bodleian Libraries, Oxford - a celebration of maps throughout history
7 July 2019
Takis Tate Modern Kevork Mourad Ismaili Centre – Two Shows – Edward Lucie-Smith
The Greek artist Panayiotis Vassillakis, known simply as Takis, born in Athens in 1925, is a very senior member of today’s international avant-garde. His...
6 July 2019
Frieze Sculpture 2019 A 3D Non-Statement – Edward Lucie-Smith
It’s time for the annual show of sculpture in Regent’s Park, organised by the Frieze Art Fair, but opening far in advance of the...
4 July 2019
Felix Vallotton: A Lost Prophet – Royal Academy – Edward Lucie-Smith
Felix Vallotton, the subject of a new exhibition on view now, at the Royal Academy, was a betwixt and between sort of artist. Swiss...
30 June 2019
Contemplating the Spiritual in Contemporary Art – Revd Jonathan Evens
Contemplating the Spiritual in Contemporary Art a new exhibition at Rosenfeld Porcini is proof, if proof is needed, that there is no shortage of...
29 June 2019
FairforSaatchi: The Making Of A Summer Fixture – Simon Tait
A new contemporary and modern art fair at the Saatchi Gallery has just opened as a "pop-up" during the London Summer fair season. Organised...
27 June 2019
Cindy Sherman NPG Retrospective A Major Blockbuster – Edward Lucie-Smith
The Cindy Sherman retrospective just opened at the National Portrait Gallery is a major blockbuster, illustrating all aspects of a very prolific career.
25 June 2019
Scott Eaton Artist Plus AI – Edward Lucie-Smith
A rather too brief exhibition, well hidden away in the bowels of Somerset House and not mentioned in the official handout listing what is...
25 June 2019
Donald Sultan Huxley-Parlour Sam Jackson Charlie Smith London 2X Reviews – Edward Lucie-Smith
This is the time of year when London's grandee galleries – official and commercial – are so busy presenting us with blockbuster shows that...
18 June 2019
Paula Rego Where The Personal Is Political – Marina Vaizey
All art is perforce autobiography, and every picture tells a story. How could it be otherwise? No outstanding artist almost literally makes visual these...
18 June 2019
Natalia Goncharova: Luboks, Icons And Russian Avant-Gardism – Edward Lucie-Smith
Born in 1881, Natalia Goncharova was a full generation older than Lee Krasner and came from a very different background from that of Krasner’s...
17 June 2019
Gender Fluidity Celebrated In New Hayward Gallery Exhibition – Teo Robinson
Kiss My Genders at the Hayward Gallery curated by Vincent Honore is a dynamic voyage and vivacious celebration of infinite representations of gender-diversity, gender...
16 June 2019
Keith Haring: A Sign Of The Times – Tate Liverpool – Alice Lenkiewicz
The highly anticipated first UK exhibition of Keith Haring's work has opened at Tate Liverpool. It is vast, covering most aspects of his work...
15 June 2019
Mark Dean Mediating Between Creation And Creator – Revd Jonathan Evens
In his book, God in the Gallery: A Christian Approach to Modern Art Daniel Siedell suggests that many works of modern and contemporary art...
11 June 2019
Oscar Murillo A Cultural Hero Of Sorts – Edward Lucie-Smith
I’ve just read a piece on the web complaining that the one area of the contemporary art world where gender equality is making no...
10 June 2019
Francis Bacon – The Power Of The Illicit – Edward Lucie-Smith
The new Francis Bacon show at Gagosian Grosvenor Hill is something of a landmark event. It contains a sumptuous array of top-quality works. Only...
9 June 2019
Keith Tyson – Enrique Martínez Celaya Two London Shows – Edward Lucie-Smith
If you want to take the temperature of the London art world, here are two places to do so. One is the show for...
8 June 2019
Faith Ringgold and Luchita Hurtado – Two Women Artists Of A Certain Age
I was looking at the tapestries with painted and sewn figures, the colourful designs of pioneering activist and artist Faith Ringgold when I heard...