Paul’s Gallery of the Week: October Gallery
11 June 2025 • Paul Carey-Kent
October Gallery is a registered charity supported by grants, donations and rental of the gallery’s facilities, as well as sales of art.
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: Canopy Collections
4 June 2025 • Paul Carey-Kent
Canopy Collections opened a permanent space near the British Museum, enabling it to host a regular programme of exhibitions
Paul’s Gallery of the Week: Brooke Benington
28 May 2025 • Paul Carey-Kent
In 2020, they joined forces to form Brooke Benington
Paul’s Photo London 2025
16 May 2025 • Paul Carey-Kent
Here are ten artists that appealed to me from the many spread around 130 galleries and several additional programmes
Paul’s Gallery of the Week: The V&A
14 May 2025 • Paul Carey-Kent
The V & A is the world’s largest museum of applied arts, decorative arts and design, with 145 galleries
Paul’s BERLIN GALLERY WEEKEND 2025
7 May 2025 • Paul Carey-Kent
When I came to select a ten things that appealed, I found only three were from the official Gallery Weekend programme.
Paul’s Gallery of the Week: Cabinet
30 April 2025 • Paul Carey-Kent
Cabinet, 132 Tyers Street Vauxhall Pleasure Gardens, London SE11 5HSwww.cabinet.uk.com Instagram: No Cabinet has remained enigmatically atypical… Read More
Paul’s Gallery of the Week: Annely Juda
23 April 2025 • Paul Carey-Kent
The space has spectacular glass-roof light on the upper level, with crane access that has made it possible to show monumentally heavy sculptures
Paul’s Gallery of the Week: Tiwani
17 April 2025 • Paul Carey-Kent
The programme concentrates on artists from Africa and the Diaspora, with an emphasis on painting
Paul’s Fairs: My Art from miart
7 April 2025 • Paul Carey-Kent
My choices seem to concentrate largely on Italian artists & galleries, which does reflect the participant demographic. Let’s start with water…
Paul’s Gallery of the Week: Pangolin London
2 April 2025 • Paul Carey-Kent
Pangolin London is unusual in being a gallery specialising in sculpture, and in being connected with a leading foundry
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
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