Reviews
Rose Wylie Memories Relived and Shared – RA – Sue Hubbard
There is something gratifying about the fact that the first female painter to have a solo exhibition (unbelievable though it may be in the 21st...
Tracey Emin A Mature Voice Emerges Tate Modern – Sue Hubbard
I first met Tracey Emin in the 1990s, when she was a young artiste maudit, hanging out with the then-new YBA bad boys, but not yet a household...
Yinka Shonibare Patterns of Power The Arc Winchester – John K Grande
Fanciful! Yinka Shonibare examines the metabolism of cultural history with a global grip on race. As a Nigerian-British artist, he has a gentle...
Chiharu Shiota Art Is The Thread Hayward Gallery – Nico Kos Earle
Chiharu Shiota’s immense, intricate web-like installations invite us to reflect on the fragile ecosystem of body, memory, and consciousness,...
Seurat and The Sea The Courtauld An Antidote To London Mizzle – Nico Kos Earle
Through the endless London mizzle, I went in search of the light. I had heard of an exhibition, Seurat and The Sea, opening at the Courtauld,...
Lucian Freud The Curator’s Egg National Portrait Gallery – John K Grande
Lucian Freud: Drawing into Painting is the first National Portrait Gallery show since Lucian Freud Portraits in 2012. With 48 sketchbooks donated to...
David Sherry: Sublime Review Of Wrongness Fruitmarket Gallery Edinburgh – Paul Fuller
Northern Irish performance artist David Sherry has been exploring the outer limits of the absurd for over three decades, and a selection of the...
Lustre: Sebastián Espejo & Pierre Bonnard Interval Gallery – Nico Kos Earle
Lustre, an exhibition by London-based painter, Sebastián Espejo presented alongside works by Pierre Bonnard at Interval Gallery.
R. Crumb: Cult Comix Artist Returns To London’s David Zwirner Gallery
R. Crumb is back in London. It’s been a while. There’s No End to the Nonsense, now open at David Zwirner, marks the American...
Basil Beattie At 91 Turps Gallery Celebrates the British Abstract Painter – Miranda Carroll
This solo exhibition at Turps Gallery celebrates 91-year-old British artist Basil Beattie through recent drawings and paintings.
Richard Avedon And Nan Goldin: Parallel Shows At Gagosian – Sue Hubbard
America is (to repurpose the famous quote from The Go-Between, that most quintessential of English novels by L.P Hartley) ‘a foreign country: they...
Picasso X Barceló Museo de Almería – Jude Montague
The exhibition brings together ceramic works by Pablo Picasso and Miquel Barceló, and pieces from the museum’s archaeological...