24 February 2021
Gabriel J. Shuldiner: The Poetry of Black — Raphy Sarkissian
“Can there be a more hypnotic colour than black?” is a question that impulsively arises when we encounter a work by Gabriel J. Shuldiner
24 February 2021
“Can there be a more hypnotic colour than black?” is a question that impulsively arises when we encounter a work by Gabriel J. Shuldiner
14 February 2021
A wave of cautious optimism motivated me to hit the frigid downtown streets. Luckily, this gallery field trip coincided...
31 January 2021
Born in 1986 to an English mother and a Ugandan father, Lakwena Maciver studied graphic design at the London College of Communications, graduating in...
26 January 2021
A momentous exhibition staged at the Museum of Fine Arts—Hungarian National Gallery in Budapest, “Sean Scully: Passenger—A Retrospective” celebrates
21 January 2021
Ed Ruscha: OKLA at Oklahoma Contemporary is the first exhibition to examine Ruscha's work within the context of those formative years in Oklahoma
14 January 2021
Robert Smithson explores interests in cartography, geology, architectural ruins, prehistory, philosophy and religion.
17 December 2020
Aliza Nisenbaum is a painter, living and working in New York. Describing herself as torn between wanting to be a social worker or a...
16 December 2020
Fly In League With The Night, at Tate Britain covers Lynette Yiadom-Boakye's work from her graduation in 2003 to the present day, with some...
12 December 2020
‘Here as in Heaven’ is the title of Ndidi Emefiele’s current exhibition, a body of work representing the artist’s philosophical attempt to understand the...
10 December 2020
Billy Childish has been around a long time. He is not only an artist but a poet and a composer of music.
3 December 2020
Tracey Emin is one of the two major survivors from the so-called YBA (Young British Artists) Group that made such a lot of noise...
25 November 2020
The big new Thames & Hudson book Shaping the World, by Antony Gormley and Martin Gayford, turns out to be a good deal better...
19 November 2020
The new book on Joseph Wright of Derby by Matthew Craske is a massive tome. Published by the Paul Mellon Center for British Art,...
3 November 2020
Now in her mid-70s. Maggi Hambling is a senior figure in British art. She doesn’t have much presence abroad
1 November 2020
"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"...
29 October 2020
There can be no doubt that the new show devoted to Turner at Tate Britain is a meaty affair. The gallery is fortunate in...
26 October 2020
As museums and galleries open to eager viewers, I took the easy way out and have only ventured to walking distance galleries. Luckily, this...
18 October 2020
In the midst of the chaos in the London art world caused by the current pandemic an artist occasionally shows up who seems serenely...
11 October 2020
How to celebrate the continuing vital and sacrificial contribution of key workers during the Covid-19 pandemic? Clap for Carers united the nation early on...
11 October 2020
Once upon a time in modernism, the interlacing of art and religion was rendered invisible. Art was not just for art’s sake but was...
8 October 2020
In present circumstances, both public and private galleries have had to think hard about what is practical and within their reach to do. Sometimes...
The Artemisia Gentileschi exhibition has opened at the National Gallery at long last. It is accompanied by a handsome, fully illustrated hardcover catalogue. The...
16 September 2020
London Grads Now, the new show currently on view at the Saatchi Gallery, won't be with us for long. It is due to close...
13 September 2020
Quentin Blake and Victor Pasmore Hastings Contemporary: I'm standing for the first time inside the Hastings Contemporary
1 September 2020
Three very colourful large format art books on Philip Guston, Bridget Riley and Henri Matisse have arrived this week.
30 July 2020
Ai Weiwei IWM: History of Bombs. Little Boy, Fat Man, Daisy Cutter, Snake Eye, Grand Slam, Tomahawk, Tsar Boba, are seemingly innocuous even childlike...
19 July 2020
London was never invaded, but London has been at war. The look of London during the Blitz and after is captured in this marvel...
16 July 2020
"Anish Kapoor is a magician," says Lord Cholmondeley in his introduction to this exhibition. His ancestral seat, Houghton Hall is presenting the largest ever...
13 July 2020
An online show called Revisiting the Decameron, curated by Laura Gascoigne, has recently gone up on the Flowers Gallery web-site. It runs until 9th...
11 July 2020
Painting, sculpture, architecture: here is a triumvirate wherein painting and sculpture remain in commanding dialogue with architecture throughout the impressive output of Sean Scully,...
26 June 2020
As this exhibition demonstrates, Zoobs Ansari’s work covers a lot of contemporary themes. On the one hand, there is the experience of the outsider,...