New York Now: Art Exhibitions Winter 2018 – Ilka Scobie
New Museum 2018 Triennial: Songs For Sabotage until May 27
19 February 2018
New Museum 2018 Triennial: Songs For Sabotage until May 27
19 February 2018
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
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
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
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
The more I looked at Glenn Brown’s latest show, the more I felt that I was both the right and the wrong person to be attempting to review it.
2 February 2018
The R.A.’s new exhibition, devoted to the role of Charles I, the most unfortunate of the Stuart monarchs, as collector of art
30 January 2018
When Steven Campbell arrived at Glasgow School of Art in 1978 age 25, he was a man in a hurry, fiercely ambitious and with enormous energy.
29 January 2018
For those of us who remember the state of the Hayward Gallery before the just completed rehab, the current Andreas Gursky show, which celebrates its re-opening
27 January 2018
The new Bridget Riley show at David Zwirner is a knockout.
22 January 2018
Art galleries opening all over the city with art as international as innovative. Given London, more than 1.500 galleries, its… Read More
21 January 2018
There was a time when the London Art Fair was the glitziest thing in the capital’s art world calendar.
20 January 2018
Philip Pearlstein is one of the truly major figures in the history of 20th (and now 21st) century American art. He is now 93 years old, and still actively at work. His new show at the Saatchi Gallery is entitled simply Philip Pearlstein: Paintings 1990-2017
17 January 2018
There is something very exciting about John Piper’s early works at Tate Liverpool.
6 January 2018
With Christmas 2017 and New Year 2018 behind us we return to the normality of the London art gallery offerings.
2 January 2018
Two current exhibitions seem to suggest that art can transform society.
1 January 2018
What were the best exhibitions in 2017? What’s on my list of ten? The answers to this pair of questions really depend on which set of attitudes you choose to embrace. For me, choices No 1 and No 2 were nothing to do with contemporary art.
14 December 2017
How times have changed! In the 1980s, during the closing decade of the Soviet Union, Russian dissident artists, emerging on to the world stage under the increasingly benevolent gaze of Mr Gorbachev, were all the rage in the art worlds of the liberal West.
8 December 2017
It’s hard to complain about the big institutional shows on display just now
8 December 2017
Once lauded as the greatest British artist of the 20th century, Moore has – in recent years – been usurped by the great sadomasochistic gambler of old, Francis Bacon
2 December 2017
Rose Wylie is 83 years old. Her rise to fame has been fairly meteoric. Ten years ago few had heard of her, either in this, her native country, or abroad.
1 December 2017
Autumn is always a hectic yet enjoyable season for the art lover in France – my favourite time of year in the busy art world calendar. I had just recovered from the excitement of Frieze and Fiac when I decided to venture to the 21st edition of Paris Photo.
27 November 2017
The exhibition focuses on the idea of what is left of women when mothering.
26 November 2017
The new Modigliani show that just opened at Tate Modern is a very splendid affair, which doesn’t seem to offer a single weak link.
22 November 2017
Lubaina Himid’s significant starting point for her exhibition ‘Naming the Money’, at the Walker Art Gallery is
21 November 2017
Having been downgraded by the early 20th century Modernists, portraiture is now, a hundred years later, making a significant comeback.
20 November 2017
The outstanding Scandinavian artist Hannah Ryggen finally receives her first major UK presentation at Modern Art Oxford. This hidden gem has finally been revealed, and the artist’s socio-political commentary is as sharp now as it was daring in her own day.
18 November 2017
Art Riot: Post-Soviet Actionism is perhaps the most interesting and relevant exhibition and performance event mounted at The Saatchi Gallery since its launch in Chelsea in 2008.
17 November 2017
In a way, it’s a bit of surprise to find the Pre-Raphs, even some of the grander ones, on view at the National Gallery.
10 November 2017
Sean Scully has been a driving force in Abstract painting since the 1980s.
9 November 2017
The Red Star show comes rather late in a series of exhibitions here in Britain, designed to celebrate – or commemorate – the Russian Communist revolution of a century ago. The R.A.. was, as is now becoming usual, a step or two ahead of Tate.
8 November 2017
The Monochrome show at the National Gallery has gained less coverage and generated much less enthusiasm that the current Living Gods show at the British Museum.
7 November 2017