Claude Monet & Architecture Strictly A Revolution In Seeing – Edward Lucie-Smith
The National Gallery’s splendid new show, Monet & Architecture, caps a very rich Spring 2018 season of exhibitions in London
5 April 2018
Archives: Reviews
Send In The Clowns: RWA Bristol Celebrates 250th Anniversary
Sawdust and Sequins – Royal West of England Academy, Bristol: Set in the spacious galleries at the RWA in Bristol this group show was designed to celebrate the 250th Anniversary of the birth of the travelling circus in Britain
2 April 2018
Sue Arrowsmith And Mathew Weir – Subtle Intimate Mark Making – MOCA London
Transference is the exhibition currently on at MOCA London, featuring artists Sue Arrowsmith and Mathew Weir.
1 April 2018
London Art Review Round-Up April 2018 – Paul Carey Kent
The noted writer and curator Paul Carey-Kent gives us his rolling ten recommended contemporary art shows in London for April 2018. Paul currently freelances for Art Monthly, Frieze, Elephant, STATE, Photomonitor, Border Crossings and World of Interiors, and has a weekly online column at FAD Art News.
31 March 2018
Cool Modern America: A Dehumanised Modernist Dream – Paul Black
As Duchamp stated in 1915; “America is the country of the art of the future. Look at the skyscrapers!
29 March 2018
Cinthia Marcelle: Dark Matter Of Social Inequality – Modern Art Oxford
The Family in Disorder: Truth or Dare, sees Brazilian artist Cinthia Marcelle transform the architectural properties of Modern Art Oxford
25 March 2018
Michael Takeo Magruder: De / coding the Apocalypse – Panacea Museum – Revd Jonathan Evens
The Panacea Museum tells the story of the Panacea Society – a remarkable religious community formed in the early twentieth century.
25 March 2018
Known Unknowns Mark Another Forward Step In Saatchi’s Recovery – Edward Lucie-Smith
The Saatchi Gallery’s new anthology show Known Unknowns marks another forward step in its recovery.
22 March 2018
The Owlman Cometh: Joseph Sakoilsky At The Stash Gallery – Teo Robinson
I am thinking of the Owlman. Ask any insomniac about “The Shadow People”, and their eyes will widen, and they tell you a dozen tales.
22 March 2018
I LOVE YOU. I LOATHE YOU. WITCHCRAFT AT THE BARBICAN – BY ZOLTAN ALEXANDER
Although Artlyst essentially focuses on contemporary art reviews, gallery listings and not o operas,
19 March 2018
The Background To The Boom And Other Tales – Edward Lucie-Smith
Three very different books that somehow reflect different facets of the same situation.
19 March 2018
Tacita Dean’s Triple Header Implicit Nostalgia And History – Sue Hubbard
Film is Tacita Dean’s medium. Not that catch-all of so many contemporary artists, video, but analogue film with all its implicit nostalgia and history. Although Tacita Dean emerged in the 90s, at the height of conceptualism, she’s always been essentially a Romantic.
17 March 2018
John Copeland: The Return Of Exuberant Painterliness – Edward Lucie-Smith
John Copeland is an American painter in his 40s, not it seems particularly well known in his own country.
12 March 2018
High Society: Four Centuries Of Lavish Portraiture – Rijks Museum – Paul Carter Robinson
High Society is a survey exhibition highlighting thirty-five portraits of the rich, famous and powerful of the day.
11 March 2018
Cerith Wyn Evans: Perceiving The Artist’s Searing Duchampian Neon – Paul Black
The internationally acclaimed Welsh artist Cerith Wyn Evans has unveiled his latest work; a major new neon sculpture at National Museum Cardiff.
9 March 2018
Picasso’s Unspoken Minotaur In The Room – Tate Modern – Edward Lucie-Smith
The hosannas have already begun. Picasso’s latest show at Tate Modern, entitled Picasso 1932: Love, Fame, Tragedy gets a 5-star review in The Times.
7 March 2018
Camden Arts Centre is currently presenting the first solo exhibition in the United Kingdom of Giorgio Griffa, an Italian abstract… Read More
4 March 2018
The Human Condition Relationships And Raw Desires – Tate Britain – Sue Hubbard
The 20th century saw God lose his central role within the scheme of human belief and philosophy.
2 March 2018
Bloomberg New Contemporaries Block 336 – Patrick Hamilton Courtney
Bloomberg New Contemporaries flies its Georgian nest for Block 336, an edgier artist-run space in Brixton.
2 March 2018
It’s A Fischl – Eric’s Latest London Exhibition Returns To Challenging Form
The American figurative painter Eric Fischl is back in London with a new exhibition of his large narrative canvases.
1 March 2018
Roy Oxlade: Painting A Sense Of The Absurd – Edward Lucie-Smith
The late Roy Oxlade (1929-1985) is currently in some danger of being remembered, first and foremost, as the partner of the current ‘emerging artist’ phenomenon that is Rose Wylie.
1 March 2018
Genta Ishizuka: Organic Urushi At The Royal Arcade – Zoltan Alexander
This story could have started a few months ago on the Gion Tatsumi bridge in Kyoto, Japan, or a long time ago on a lazy afternoon at Lucie Rie’s studio in London. Matthew Hall, the director of Erskine, Hall & Coe Gallery has the answer.
28 February 2018
Submerging Artists: Rebirthing A Genre By Edward Lucie-Smith
It’s become noticeable that while the British art world – it’s museum dominated segment in particular – still prattles happily about ‘emerging artists’, convincing examples of this species have become rarer and rarer.
26 February 2018
Rachel Howard A Rising International Artist With Substance – Edward Lucie-Smith
Rachel Howard (b. 1969 in County Durham) is a rising star in the British art world, which is currently badly in need of new names.
23 February 2018
Emil Nolde: A Secret Heart Of Darkness – Sue Hubbard
There is a conundrum at the heart of the work of Emil Nolde.
20 February 2018
Eddie Peake: Compulsive Obsessional And Occasionally Shit-Scared – By Zoltan Alexander
Anything but a conventional artist, Eddie Peake is a footballer, a musician, a dancer, a graffiti guy covered with spray-paint
20 February 2018
Nancy Rubins: A Woman Of Conviction – Gagosian – Edward Lucie-Smith
Nancy Rubins’ exuberant exhibition at Gagosian Britannia Street comes as a great relief in the current epoch of self-righteous #MeToo… Read More
19 February 2018
New York Now: Art Exhibitions Winter 2018 – Ilka Scobie
New Museum 2018 Triennial: Songs For Sabotage until May 27
19 February 2018
Gideon Rubin Explores The Sinister History Of Nazi Propaganda At Freud Museum
An exhibition of new work by Israeli/British artist Gideon Rubin, Black Book is the latest in a series of well-received shows curated by James Putnam.
13 February 2018
Sean Scully – Newcastle Where It All Began – Edward Lucie-Smith
The new Sean Scully show in Newcastle is spread over two galleries, the Laing and the Hatton, and contains no… Read More
12 February 2018
Henri Michaux Indefatigable Experimenter Guggenheim Bilbao – Sue Hubbard
Modern psychology has shown considerable interest in understanding the self. Investigations into the problems of selfhood spread during the 20th century from clinicians and humanistic psychologists to be explored in laboratories and by artists.
7 February 2018
BRAFA Brussels Antiques & Fine Arts Fair 13 Of The Best By Paul Carey-Kent
Reviewer at large Paul Carey-Kent reports on BRAFA Brussels Antiques & Fine Arts fair (BRAFA), which ran from 27 Jan – 4 Feb 2018.
5 February 2018