Action to Australia, Rain to Iran: Photo London 2023
12 May 2023 • Paul Carey-Kent
This year’s Photo London is above average, with two excellent special exhibitions (of Martin Parr’s recent work and ‘Writing her… Read More
12 May 2023 • Paul Carey-Kent
This year’s Photo London is above average, with two excellent special exhibitions (of Martin Parr’s recent work and ‘Writing her… Read More
10 May 2023 • Paul Carey-Kent
When I first met Andy Wicks, he was an artist (and I liked his work). But his role arranging artist-run pop-ups led him to morph towards gallerist, and Castor Projects was born in 2016.
2 May 2023 • Paul Carey-Kent
Berlin has the coordination London lacks, and so it is that the annual Berlin Gallery Weekend sees 55 galleries on the official programme and at least as many other galleries all opening new shows on Friday 29 April
26 April 2023 • Paul Carey-Kent
VITRINE, following the opening of a new Fitzrovia space in May 2022 and last month’s relaunch of its original Bermondsey space – a shopfront-style space – might now be seen as a mega-gallery
19 April 2023 • Paul Carey-Kent
Jean Cooke: ‘Beach, Birling Gap’ 1975 Piano Nobile, 96/129 Portland Road, London, W11 4LW www.piano-nobile.com Instagram @pianonobilegallery Piano Nobile was… Read More
13 April 2023 • Paul Carey-Kent
I’ve been around long enough to remember when Pippy Houldsworth opened on Cork Street in 1999, moving west for a while before settling in Heddon Street from 2011.
5 April 2023 • Paul Carey-Kent
That tricky spelling is the Latinate version of the gallerist’s first name: he was born in 1960 as Thaddäus within a family of Carinthian Slovenes in southern Austria. He interned with Joseph Beuys, opened his first gallery in 1981, and now leads a global brand
29 March 2023 • Paul Carey-Kent
Somers Gallery, handily placed between Euston and Kings Cross, is an unusual space which should be better known. It’s run by a Mexican, Javier Calderon, who also owns Flori Canto,
22 March 2023 • Paul Carey-Kent
London / New York gallery Luxembourg + Co. emerged in 2020 out of Luxembourg & Dayan, founded in 2009 by Daniella Luxembourg and Amalia Dayan
15 March 2023 • Paul Carey-Kent
Tate Britain opened as the National Gallery of British Art on the site of the former Millbank Prison in 1897, but soon became commonly known as the Tate Gallery, after its founder Sir Henry Tate.
13 March 2023 • Paul Carey-Kent
A Trip to TEFAF – the world’s premier wide-ranging art fair – design, jewellery, clocks, books etc, across 270 stands
8 March 2023 • Paul Carey-Kent
Montenegrin gallerist and curator Fedja Klikovac, who arrived in Britain in 1992, currently shows mainly from his home in Islington – though there are plans to change that.
1 March 2023 • Paul Carey-Kent
Frith Street Gallery was founded in 1989 by Jane Hamlyn – daughter of the famous publisher Paul Hamlyn – originally in a Georgian townhouse at 60 Frith Street, just off Soho Square.
22 February 2023 • Paul Carey-Kent
The Barbican’s galleries lie within a labyrinthine concrete complex, part of an estate that also includes 2,000 flats, innumerable walkways, three restaurants, a public library and an impressively planted conservatory as well as an arts centre known for theatre, film, music and dance as much as visual art.
15 February 2023 • Paul Carey-Kent
Sid Motion comes from an artistic background – her father is Andrew Motion, poet laureate 1999-2009; her mother Jan Dalley, arts editor of the Financial Times –
8 February 2023 • Paul Carey-Kent
Niru Ratnam (don’t call him Ratman, a common error!) has popped up across the years in various galleries I’ve visited – I recall him at Aicon, Frith Street and Koenig as well as running fairs.
1 February 2023 • Paul Carey-Kent
This year marks the 25th anniversary of the Estorick Collection, which occupies a distinctive niche as Britain’s only museum devoted to modern Italian art.
28 January 2023 • Paul Carey-Kent
The Brussels Antiques & Fine Arts Fair – BRAFA was founded it 1956, making it the longest-running such event…. Read More
25 January 2023 • Paul Carey-Kent
Virginia Verran in her show of Bruce Bernard photographs Gagosian, 20 Grosvenor Hill, London W1K 3QD (plus three other London… Read More
18 January 2023 • Paul Carey-Kent
Julia Muggenburg founded Belmacz – close to Bond Street underground station – in 2000 as a means of hosting a critically engaged exhibition program alongside her sculptural jewels and objects.
11 January 2023 • Paul Carey-Kent
Bernard Jacobson started his career in London in the 1960s as a journalist, leading him to befriend many artists, and set up his own gallery in 1969.
4 January 2023 • Paul Carey-Kent
Camden Art Centre, founded in a former library building in 1965, has been in the news recently for an unwelcome reason: its annual Government funding has been cut by more than a third, from £937,000 to £600,000.
28 December 2022 • Paul Carey-Kent
I guess no one needs to be told about the Royal Academy, founded in 1768 and iconically located not once but thrice: in the former Royal Palace of Somerset House (1771- 1836), the National Gallery (1837-67) and Burlington House, Piccadilly (1868 onwards). It used to be considered crusty and old-fashioned (the Royal Academy o‘ Farts, perhaps) but has become cooler in recent years.
21 December 2022 • Paul Carey-Kent
The artist Glenn Brown has opened a free-to-visit gallery-come-museum over a sleekly impressive four floors of a purpose-adapted house in Marylebone.