A major Lucian Freud exhibition at the National Gallery, jointly organised with the Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza, marks the centenary of his birth in Berlin in 1922 and features 63 paintings spanning a prolific career of more than 70 years.
8 to see at Paris+ Art Basel, after a busy week in London with Frieze, Frieze Masters, 1-54 and The… Read More
Frieze Masters, the younger yet more genteel sibling of the bigger, brasher Frieze Art Fair, is hosting a finely curated selection of art spanning a period of six millennia.
Surprisingly, given the huge surge in global popularity of Korean pop culture, the V&A is the first UK museum to stage a major exhibition featuring Korean art, tech, music, film, TV and fashion.
During a recent trip to Naples, I visited the stunning Capodimonte Museum and saw two exhibitions which are closely related: ‘Beyond Caravaggio’ (‘Oltre Caravaggio’): a new tale of painting in Naples’,
The J/M Gallery is presenting a second exhibition curated by Rokhee Hwang of South Korea’s renowned ‘Mews Gallery’, featuring the… Read More
In the Black Fantastic is a magical, fantastical exhibition featuring 11 contemporary artists from the African diaspora; Nick Cave, Sedrick Chisom,… Read More
Christian Azolan’s majestic exhibition ‘Little Black Girls’ graced the Fitzrovia Chapel for only a short time, but his artworks can now… Read More
Chipping Campden in Gloucestershire was created as a new town in the late 12th Century, and given a market charter, which… Read More
Varvara Roza Galleries and The Blender Gallery are presenting a major solo exhibition of artist Konstantinos Patsios, titled ‘Deep in the… Read More
Lee Sharrock talks to artist Nooka Shepherd for the latest instalment of ‘The Upcoming’, a platform for new and emerging… Read More
Lee Sharrock picks her favourite exhibits at the 2022 edition of Photo London at Somerset House. In what feels like the largest Photo London display to date, featuring 106 exhibitors from 18 countries taking over all 3 floors of Somerset House as well as the East and West Wing, and a pavilion in the courtyard
Cecilia Alemani, Curator of the central exhibition of the 59th Biennale di Venezia, poses the question ‘How does one imagine a future… Read More
In the latest edition of Lee Sharrock’s column featuring emerging artists, Lee talks to Emily Kirby.
From Ancient Rome to Regency Bridgerton via Frankenstein, Dylan and Hodgkin
An epic new art documentary directed by Tim Yip with creative producers Meihui Liu and Maryam Eisler was premiered at… Read More
Since Ryan Stanier launched The Other Art Fair (TOAF) in 2011 as the first fair to represent independent artists, it… Read More
I must admit that before I visited the Kawanabe Kyosai exhibition at the Royal Academy of Arts, I wasn’t familiar with his work, and expected to see something in the vein of the revered Japanese artist Hokusai. Kyosai is considered to be a close successor of Hokusai, however, the exhibition felt more like looking at the work of an illustrator and satirist than a fine artist.
A group exhibition opening on 4th March at new West London gallery 99 Projects features several artists previously interviewed by the exhibition’s curator in FAD column ‘The Upcoming’
Curator and writer Lee Sharrock has teamed up with Frances Casey, director of new West London Gallery 99 Projects on ‘Rebirth’. This group exhibition features some of the UK’s most exciting upcoming contemporary artists
For the first time in a decade, a major retrospective of paintings by 20th Century master Francis Bacon (1909-1992) is on display in London.
In the latest edition of FAD’s column spotlighting upcoming contemporary artists, Lee Sharrock interviewed Poppy Lennox. London-based artist Poppy Lennox… Read More
This multi-sensory, theatrical exhibition by the Turner Prize-winning Lubaina Himid is a thought-provoking and engaging journey through the mind of… Read More
Lee Sharrock‘s new column for FAD magazine explores some of the most interesting creative cities in the UK and Europe…. Read More
