Welcome To Glasgow International Visual Art Biennial 2021 – Clare Henry
Seventy exhibitions and events from over 100 artists. Sounds a lot? Yet, the overall result of GI is disappointingly thin. Today’s restrictions don’t help.
24 June 2021
Archives: Reviews
Cacophony: Four Iranian Artists AB-ANBAR Cromwell Place – Sue Hubbard
Few in the West will have been to Tehran. We are either likely to think of an exotic Persia full of sultans and hareems
11 June 2021
Barbara Hepworth: Symbols Of Art & Life – Hepworth Wakefield – Revd Jonathan Evens
Looking back on her work, Hepworth identified three important sculptural forms to which she continually returned.
9 June 2021
Rodin: Suffering And Conflict – Tate Modern – Revd Jonathan Evens
To stage a major Rodin exhibition in 2021, the 700th anniversary of the death of Dante is particularly appropriate …
9 June 2021
Modern British Artists At The Beach Hastings Contemporary – Jude Cowan Montague
Jude Cowan Montague explores Seaside Modern: Art and Life on the Beach at Hastings Contemporary.
3 June 2021
David Hockney: Sequentially Spring Royal Academy – Marina Vaizey
David Hockney is, for a variety of reasons, a British National Treasure. Why? It is stunningly evident in the special exhibition of paintings done last year, which explores, sequentially, the arrival of spring unfurling over three months in his four-acre garden in rural France.
27 May 2021
Eileen Agar: A Surrealist Trailblazer Whitechapel Gallery – Sue Hubbard
As a new young arts writer, I once went to Eileen Agar’s flat in Kensington. I honestly didn’t know who she was at that time. The flat was quite conventional, except for a few collages on the walls and her famous Bouillabaisse hat – constructed of cork and decorated with a large orange plastic flower, a blue plastic star, assorted shells, glass beads and starfish – sitting on a stand.
24 May 2021
Ryoji Ikeda And Matthew Barney The End Of Silence – James Payne
James Payne embraces the end of silence after months of lockdown in two new exhibitions: Ryoji Ikeda at 180 The Strand and Matthew Barney at the Hayward Gallery.
20 May 2021
Model Maquette Scale Illusion and Space at The Cello Factory – Simon Streather
The exhibition ‘Model Maquette’ arrives in a protracted time of pandemic fright, a time when most people’s worlds have literally shrunk. Suggestions of either imaginative flight or claustrophobia become all the more poignant.
16 May 2021
Tony Cragg Imposing And Authoritative Houghton Hall – Marina Vaizey
Tony Cragg is the latest artist to be featured in the magnificent grounds of Houghton Hall, Norfolk this Spring and Summer.
12 May 2021
More London Art Exhibitions Spring 2021 – Paul Carey-Kent
Skarstedt’s fascinating new exhibition Painter / Sculptor brings together a sculpture and a painting by nine artists who says the gallery, ‘have mastered both painting and sculpture.
4 May 2021
Archie Brennan At Dovecot Studios Edinburgh. – Shockingly Overdue! – Clare Henry
Archie Brennan was a creative genius and pioneer who transformed tapestry from a method of slavish, rigid reproduction, replication and restriction into one of innovation, imagination, immediacy and wit.
25 April 2021
Rachel Whiteread: A Beguiling New Exhibition At Gagosian – Marina Vaizey
The Gagosian Gallery on Grosvenor Hill is a subtly magnificent slab of grey. particularly appropriate for the art of Rachel Whiteread.
21 April 2021
Martin Wong and Aaron Gilbert P.P.O.W. Review Ilka Scobie
Art created during a crisis can be a powerful catharsis for both artist and audience. P.P.O.W presents two artists.
20 April 2021
London Art Exhibitions Are Back – Paul Carey-Kent
Paul Carey-Kent is back on the London Gallery trail with some exciting offerings for April and May this Spring.
15 April 2021
Sean Scully: Philosophical Poetic Pastoral The 12 / Dark Windows – Revd Jonathan Evens
Sean Scully has created new works for this exhibition in the world in which we currently live, with ‘the existential threat from COVID
4 April 2021
Architectural Envelopes: The Modern Art Museum – Charles Saumarez Smith
The underlying momentum of this remarkable and provocatively thoughtful book, The Art Museum in Modern Times by Charles Saumarez Smith
28 March 2021
KAWS: Reinventing Appropriation Brooklyn Museum – Raphy Sarkissian
Upon entering the Brooklyn Museum to view “Kaws: What Party”, the visitor is confronted by a colossal and strikingly iconic sculpture
24 March 2021
Arthur Jafa: The Art Of Cutting And Pasting – Revd Jonathan Evens
Since childhood, Jafa has cut pictures out of books and magazines, pasting them into new contexts. Black potention is an awareness.
18 March 2021
Kati Vilim: Optical and Tactile ─ Raphy Sarkissian
Kati Vilim’s work is seemingly weightless so as to float off into the ether, planar surfaces intercept and overlap, at once asserting the flatness of the canvas and transfiguring abstraction into illusions of solid bodies.
11 March 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
A New York Gallery Field Trip February 2021 – Ilka Scobie
A wave of cautious optimism motivated me to hit the frigid downtown streets. Luckily, this gallery field trip coincided…
14 February 2021
Lakwena Maciver: Review-Interview Hastings Contemporary – Revd Jonathan Evens
Born in 1986 to an English mother and a Ugandan father, Lakwena Maciver studied graphic design at the London College of Communications, graduating in 2009.
31 January 2021
Sean Scully: Geometry as Gesture as Perception – Raphy Sarkissian
A momentous exhibition staged at the Museum of Fine Arts—Hungarian National Gallery in Budapest, “Sean Scully: Passenger—A Retrospective” celebrates
26 January 2021
Made in USA Ed Ruscha An American Perspective – Revd Jonathan Evens
Ed Ruscha: OKLA at Oklahoma Contemporary is the first exhibition to examine Ruscha’s work within the context of those formative years in Oklahoma
21 January 2021
Robert Smithson: The Archetypal Nature Of Things – Revd Jonathan Evens
Robert Smithson explores interests in cartography, geology, architectural ruins, prehistory, philosophy and religion.
14 January 2021
Aliza Nisenbaum: Portraits That Subvert Traditions – Tate Liverpool Alice Lenkiewicz
Aliza Nisenbaum is a painter, living and working in New York. Describing herself as torn between wanting to be a social worker or a painter
17 December 2020
Lynette Yiadom-Boakye Lets The Paint Tell The Story – James Payne
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 paintings made during lockdown.
16 December 2020
Cosmic Patches And Quilts Five Exhibitions – Revd Jonathan Evans
‘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 tragic death of her sister.
12 December 2020
Billy Childish: The Timeless Present – Neugerriemschneider Berlin – Edward Lucie-Smith
Billy Childish has been around a long time. He is not only an artist but a poet and a composer of music.
10 December 2020
Tracey Emin / Edvard Munch Exploring The Inner Self – Edward Lucie-Smith
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 in the 1990s.
3 December 2020
Antony Gormley and Martin Gayford Present Visual Culture Throughout History – Edward Lucie-Smith
The big new Thames & Hudson book Shaping the World, by Antony Gormley and Martin Gayford, turns out to be a good deal better than the truly appalling plug for it recently published in The Sunday Times’ Culture Magazines, but it still exhibits a few problems.
25 November 2020