26 May 2020
BP Portrait Award Survives Online – Edward Lucie-Smith
As the National Portrait Gallery closes its doors, not just in response to the Coronavirus epidemic, but in preparation for a three-year rehab, the...
26 May 2020
As the National Portrait Gallery closes its doors, not just in response to the Coronavirus epidemic, but in preparation for a three-year rehab, the...
18 May 2020
The ways of the art market are pretty strange. Hamiltons, a leading gallery here in London that specialises in photography, have just put a...
17 May 2020
Home Alone Together: We are told that home is where the heart is, but also that, while we can travel the world in search...
11 May 2020
Spring 2020 was to have been an appropriate season for the launch of one of the Camden Arts Centre’s most ambitious exhibitions to date....
6 May 2020
Ben Lewis’s book The Last Leonardo, subtitled ‘A Masterpiece, A Mystery and the Dirty World of Art’, has now appeared in paperback after its...
30 April 2020
Here's a handsome new volume, well-illustrated, but more social history than art book, which tells of the emergence of London as an international art...
23 April 2020
Darren Coffield’s well-presented Tales from the Colony Room, Soho’s Lost Bohemia, memorialises an epoch in the London world of the arts that now seems...
The much-anticipated Artemisia Gentileschi exhibition at the National Gallery in London has now been indefinitely postponed, to the disappointment of many.
9 April 2020
This handsome soft-cover catalogue published by Thames & Hudson for the British Museum was intended to commemorate an exhibition that hasn’t in fact taken...
26 March 2020
Books written in exile by the exiled. It is this phenomenon, the triumph of the human spirit in dire circumstances, that is the focus...
19 March 2020
The Titian show at the National Gallery in London has arrived at a particularly inauspicious moment. Major public galleries in Europe are shutting their...
16 March 2020
What is this ‘other world’ Alexander Hinks is drawn to and asks that we be drawn into? His current exhibition at ‘The Cello Factory’ spans...
12 March 2020
Andy Warhol (1928-1987) has, even since his death more than thirty years ago, retained a central position in the world of contemporary art.
9 March 2020
Among the Trees which just opened at the Hayward Gallery, is an ambitious exhibition that has all the best intentions, and somehow fails to...
4 March 2020
As the exhibition catalogue notes, the Beardsley show that just opened at Tate Britain is the first comprehensive survey of his work to have...
27 February 2020
I’ve always liked the exhibitions at the Ashmolean in Oxford. They offer sensible examples of art historical explanation - something that can’t always be...
25 February 2020
As the National Portrait Gallery prepares for its long sleep - three years with its doors firmly shut - it is not surprising to...
18 February 2020
I am just back from a quick trip to Los Angeles, which gave me a lot to consider - chiefly about how different the...
7 February 2020
A new exhibition at the Hepworth Wakefield features two very British artists with crossover interests. The photographer Bill Brandt (1904-1983) and sculptor Henry Moore...
5 February 2020
The rather splendid show of new figurative painting, now on view at the Whitechapel Art Gallery, boasts that it is the first event of...
5 February 2020
'We Will Walk—Art and Resistance in the American South' is one of the most powerful and important shows I've seen. It is co-curated by the...
4 February 2020
Rose Wylie has become one of the leading British contemporary artists of her generation. In the last decade, her work has come to the...
29 January 2020
The new American Pastoral exhibition at Gagosian’s Britannia Street space is of museum quality, even if what’s on show doesn’t always seem to relate...
22 January 2020
Wow! This show is a real blockbuster! Spread out in the main exhibition galleries of the Royal Academy. It gives an excellent idea of...
21 January 2020
The 2020 art world is coming sluggishly to life and some early offerings are, it must be said, a bit disappointing.
19 January 2020
Ilka Scobie takes a look at the first New York exhibitions for 2020 and discovers a few surprises along the way.
2 January 2020
On 7th October 1943, Charlotte Salomon was deported to Auschwitz. She was 26 years old and five months pregnant. She probably died the day...
18 December 2019
The exhibition, AMALGAM by Theaster Gates, now showing at Tate Liverpool is an experience not to be missed with a poignant message for our...
15 December 2019
Walking into the Simone Subal Gallery on the lower east side, which was once ironically a hub for immigrants, I am taken aback by...