15 November 2018
Angiosperms (roughly flowering plants) produce an incredible variety of seeds that are dispersed in creative, innovative ways, sometimes involving tricksy relationships with particular animals.
14 November 2018
Despite its title, Coca-Cola Girls, Alex Katz’s new show at Timothy Taylor doesn’t really belong in the realm of Pop Art. It does, however,...
11 November 2018
This exhibition at the National Gallery is a landmark event. It brings together a rich selection of paintings, and some drawings, by two of...
10 November 2018
‘Life-destroyer’, ‘get lost’, ‘monkeys’, ‘in bad faith’, ‘malediction’, ‘concealed dungeon’, ‘poison head’, ‘parasite’, ‘disenchantment’, ‘lechery’. The titles of Peter Howson's latest work, in translation...
7 November 2018
Here, lumped together for the sake of convenience in an overcrowded Autumn season, are four London galleries.
6 November 2018
Tucked away in a group of spaces on the gloomy ground floor of the National Gallery is a superb exhibition that seems likely to...
4 November 2018
As one of the participants in the globe-trotting EMPIRE 2 project, exhibiting the moving image on a world tour, I came to Paris for...
1 November 2018
Arriving at Montparnasse, I don't at first see any sign of the Gallery Granville. With its modest frontage, it's located just off-road in a...
31 October 2018
The R.A.’s show of drawings by Gustav Klimt and Egon Schiele, almost all of them loaned by the Albertina Museum in Vienna, arrives at...
30 October 2018
As is becoming more and more apparent, contemporary art in the United States is becoming increasingly regionalised. Which is to say, identified with one...
29 October 2018
Looking around the NPG’s new Taylor Wessing Photographic Portrait Prize exhibition, I was immediately reminded of the fact that we are right in the...
28 October 2018
Just as I had begun to despair of the future of video, or of video + installation, as mediums for genuinely convincing contemporary art,...
Celebrating the tercentenary of Glasgow University Hunterian founder, Dr. William Hunter obviously calls for a significant exhibition. This impressive memorable display, immaculately presented, is organised by...
25 October 2018
I have various reasons for being interested in Edward Burne-Jones. Some are purely personal. For example, I happen to live in the area of...
22 October 2018
It’s depressing how rapidly once-big art stars manage to fade nowadays. You blink your eyes, and suddenly they’re gone.
16 October 2018
I first encountered the work of Paul Feiler (born Germany 1918 Died 2013) at his centenary exhibition held at the Jerwood Gallery in Hastings...
15 October 2018
Pierre-Cécile Puvis de Chavannes (1824-1898) has turned into a kind of orphan in art historical terms.
10 October 2018
Black Mirror presents itself as ‘Art as Social Satire’, and there is indeed a real black mirror in the show.
9 October 2018
Anni Albers is quite frankly a peculiar artist for Tate Modern to devote an entire solo exhibition.
8 October 2018
The William Tillyer show at Bernard Jacobson is an example of what I’m starting to think of as the current ‘golden oldie’ phenomenon in...
6 October 2018
Last Wednesday, before the Frieze frenzy, I attended the opening of the Michelangelo Pistoletto exhibition, “Origins and Consequences” at the Mazzoleni gallery in Mayfair....
4 October 2018
Sean Scully is extremely widely known as a painter. Indeed, I might go so far as to say that he is as widely known...
3 October 2018
Right by White Cube in Mason's Yard is the ancient green door, with the brass plate Jack Bell Gallery. Buzz, and the stale smelling...
3 October 2018
Structure tends to call to mind notions of order, stability and efficiency. It should perhaps come as no surprise that the artists featured in...
2 October 2018
Ugo Rondinone explains as the last minute details of his current show are being attended to.
1 October 2018
I had the privilege to have a private tour and a passionate talk with gallery owner, Amar Singh a few days before he opened...
1 October 2018
Oceania, Royal Academy: To some extent, our ideas about what we call ‘primitive’ or ‘tribal’ art are still formed by what we have learned,...
1 October 2018
The Space Shifters show at the Hayward lives up to its title, often in ways you don’t quite expect. This, in spite of the...
24 September 2018
Before I go any further, let me note that, on the very day this iteration of the annual Turner Prize exhibition was revealed to...
22 September 2018
My first experience of performance artists Kimatica was when they won the 2014 Winter Pride Performance Art Awards
20 September 2018
Chok Yue Zan's latest series of works capture the environmental and familial fragmentation that he has come to be so familiar with.