Paul Carey Kent

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

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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…

Paul’s Fairs: Stories of Frieze London

12 October 2024 • Paul Carey-Kent

The layout of Frieze London has been shaken up this year, and the fair feels fresh. As ever, though, it’s… Read More

Paul’s Gallery of the Week: JGM Gallery

3 October 2024 • Paul Carey-Kent

JGM has an unusual programme alternating indigenous contemporary art from Australia with shows by British artists.

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Paul’s Gallery of the Week: IONE & MANN

25 September 2024 • Paul Carey-Kent

The first part of IONE & MANN (say ‘Eye-Oh-Knee’ if you like) sounds close to ‘Ionian’, and that’s in line with being run by the Greek-born Alkistis Koukouliou. Logically enough, she’s seen championing Zeus above.

Paul’s Gallery of the Week: Kate MacGarry

18 September 2024 • Paul Carey-Kent

Kate MacGarry opened her eponymous gallery in 2002, initially on Redchurch Street

Paul’s Gallery of The Week: Galerie Max Hetzler

11 September 2024 • Paul Carey-Kent

According to Hetzler himself ‘The programme is the artists’, which I guess puts the emphasis on which artists are chosen, and the quality is high

Paul’s Gallery of the Week: Sid Motion

4 September 2024 • Paul Carey-Kent

When I first met Sid Motion, she was working for Max Wigram gallery (remember that?)

Paul’s Gallery of the Week: OOF Gallery

31 July 2024 • Paul Carey-Kent

OOF is one of London’s less orthodox spaces.

Paul’s Gallery of the Week: MASSIMODECARLO

24 July 2024 • Paul Carey-Kent

Massimo De Carlo’s background was in pharmacy and jazz when he founded his gallery in Milan in 1987.

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Paul’s Gallery of the Week: Sylvia Kouvali

17 July 2024 • Paul Carey-Kent

A new gallery? No, Sylvia Kouvali has recently rebranded her Rodeo space to more personal and less programmatic effect.

GHOSTS AT THE ROYAL ACADEMY… SUMMER SHOW 2024

8 July 2024 • Paul Carey-Kent

As ever, the RA Summer show is an over-packed and variable mix, but there are good things to be found and the whole room presentation of Carey Young’s film ‘The Vision Machine’ is particularly welcome