Paul’s Fairs: London Original Print Fair 2025
24 March 2025 • Paul Carey-Kent
In chronological order, are eight items I like at Somerset House. The fair isn’t restricted to editions, incidentally: five of these are unique works
Author: Paul Carey-Kent
Art critic and curator, based near Southampton. I write most regularly for Art Monthly, Frieze, World of Interiors, Seisma, Border Crossings, Artlyst, ... and, of course, FAD.
Paul’s Gallery of the Week: Canada Gallery
19 March 2025 • Paul Carey-Kent
Several of London’s embassies and consulates have hosted art exhibitions from time to time, but Canada has had the most consistent programme
Paul’s Gallery of the Week: IMT GALLERY
13 March 2025 • Paul Carey-Kent
This is the 20th year of IMT, quite an achievement for a small not-for-profit space that favours boundary-pushing collaborative approaches, workshopping and experimental writing
Paul’s Gallery of the Week: Coleman Projects
5 March 2025 • Paul Carey-Kent
Artist Frances Coleman lives above Coleman Projects, placing her well to act as the public face of the programme that she has directed for over two decades
Paul’s Gallery of the Week: Rosenfeld
26 February 2025 • Paul Carey-Kent
Ian was a wonderful man, full of good humour, passionate about his artists – and very clear about his tastes
Paul’s Gallery of the Week: Hales
19 February 2025 • Paul Carey-Kent
Hales Gallery was founded in Deptford in 1992 by two Pauls, Hedge and Maslin
Paul’s Gallery of the Week: Christie’s
12 February 2025 • Paul Carey-Kent
Go to Christie’s in New York at the moment, and that roves controversial: its ‘Augmented Intelligence auction’
Paul’s Gallery of the Week: Alice Amati
5 February 2025 • Paul Carey-Kent
I knew Alice Amati from her previous roles – at Taymour Grahne, David Zwirner and Workplace – before she set up her own space two years ago
Open Call: Proposals are invited by 14th March for the £25,000 ‘Antepavilion’ commission, 2025
27 January 2025 • Paul Carey-Kent
For 2025 the Antepavilion brief returns to the location at the origins of the competition: the North-West corner of the Hoxton Docks rooftops
PAUL’S FAIRS: THE FACES OF BRAFA, 2025
25 January 2025 • Paul Carey-Kent
This year marks the 70th anniversary of the Brussels Antiques & Fine Arts Fair – BRAFA.
Paul’s Gallery of the Week: Public Gallery
22 January 2025 • Paul Carey-Kent
What’s the largest commercial gallery in East London?
Paul’s Gallery of the Week: Mazzoleni
15 January 2025 • Paul Carey-Kent
The gallery opened a London space in 2014, initially at ground level on Albermarle Street, now less visibly on the first floor of 15 Old Bond Street
Paul’s Gallery of the Week: Maureen Paley
8 January 2025 • Paul Carey-Kent
New York born Maureen Paley came to London to attend the Royal College of Art in 1978-80 and stayed. She’s been operating as a gallerist for over 40 years
PAUL’S HAPPY CHRISTMAS FROM SIX SNOWMEN
23 December 2024 • Paul Carey-Kent
Six Contemporary artist who have made more permanent snowmen…
Paul’s Gallery of the Week: Alma Pearl
17 December 2024 • Paul Carey-Kent
Alma Pearl opened last year, occupying a substantial L-shaped space alongside the Regent’s Canal towards Haggerston
Paul’s Gallery of the Week: Anthony Wilkinson
11 December 2024 • Paul Carey-Kent
Anthony showed on a fairly occasional basis in collaboration with other galleries before settling into a new permanent location in Soho earlier this year
Paul’s Gallery of the Week: Almine Rech
4 December 2024 • Paul Carey-Kent
After running spaces jointly for some years, Almine Rech founded her own gallery in Paris in 1997
Paul’s Gallery of the Week: HS Projects
27 November 2024 • Paul Carey-Kent
However, the lobby of 5 Howick Place near Victoria hosts regular shows, and there are also exhibition projects elsewhere.
Paul’s Gallery of the Week: Delfina Foundation
20 November 2024 • Paul Carey-Kent
40 residencies per year, and over 1000 practitioners have been helped since Delfina Studios was set up by Delfina Entrecanales
Paul’s Fairs Art Cologne: Never Mind the Doom
11 November 2024 • Paul Carey-Kent
If President Trump makes the rich richer I guess that might be good for the art market, but the mood remains darkened by his victory:
Paul’s Shows: ING Discerning Eye
6 November 2024 • Paul Carey-Kent
I’m one of the six selectors for this year’s ING Discerning Eye show
Paul’s Fairs: Paris – The Alternative Fairs.
23 October 2024 • Paul Carey-Kent
Both ‘Paris Internationale’ and ‘The Salon by Nada and The Community’ were well-located presentations with a sprinkling of established names and a lively mix of upcoming artists.
Art Basel Paris: The Not So Usual.
19 October 2024 • Paul Carey-Kent
Excellence is fairly routine, then, so I went in search of fare that was also unusual in some way. Here are 10 examples:
Paul’s Fairs: Frieze Masters – the South American edit
14 October 2024 • Paul Carey-Kent
No sooner had I walked into Frieze Masters than I bumped into the Brazilian painter Gabriela Max. Perhaps that was a portent, as I found plenty of interesting work from South America…