Paul Carey Kent

19 September 2018 by Paul Carey-Kent in Paul Carey-Kent Art Stuff on a Train

Abstract Expressionist Women on the Rise

Around 65 years after its productive highpoint, it’s interesting to speculate how the history of abstract expressionism will look in another 65 years.

12 September 2018 by Paul Carey-Kent in Paul Carey-Kent Art Stuff on a Train

The Joys of a Small Biennale

I’ve just returned from the third Biennale to be held in the small (pop 43,000) German town of Halberstadt, 100 miles west of Berlin.

5 September 2018 by Paul Carey-Kent in NEWS, Paul Carey-Kent Art Stuff on a Train

Despite its fame, the Wallace Collection somewhat underappreciated, I reckon. It’s famous for masterpieces by such as Titian, van Dyck, Rembrandt, Canaletto, Poussin, Hals and Delacroix, but there are plenty of interesting yet less remarked works.

29 August 2018 by Paul Carey-Kent in Paul Carey-Kent Art Stuff on a Train

Art, Duchamp and Retinal Chess

Art and chess have often been linked, most famously via Marcel Duchamp, who was addicted to the game to the extent that not only did he switch his focus from Athena to Caïssa, but it contributed to the failure of his marriage in 1927.

22 August 2018 by Paul Carey-Kent in Art Reviews., Art Stuff London, Paul Carey-Kent Art Stuff on a Train

Completely Coconuts at the British Museum

It’s not easy to get a grip on the boggling scale of the British Museum: it has around 8,000,000 items.

15 August 2018 by Paul Carey-Kent in Paul Carey-Kent Art Stuff on a Train

Art in Tunbridge Wells?

Royal*Tunbridge Wells is an attractive town to visit, yet I was surprised by the merits of Tunbridge Wells Museum & Art Gallery

8 August 2018 by Paul Carey-Kent in Art Reviews., NEWS, Paul Carey-Kent Art Stuff on a Train

Lorenzetti, Mantegna, Bellini: Fragment or Part?

The aesthetic appeal of the fragment is well known, and though it tends to arise accidentally in older work it’s not so rare to wonder whether the whole would really have been much better.

1 August 2018 by Paul Carey-Kent in Paul Carey-Kent Art Stuff on a Train

Similarly Different: Isa Genzken and Caroline McCarthy

It’s fairly common to find that two artists arrive, by different means, at a somewhat similar looking endpoint. That’s the time to remember that the motivating force is part of the work. A different case arises, though, when the effect obtained is the reverse of the other artist’s

25 July 2018 by Paul Carey-Kent in Paul Carey-Kent Art Stuff on a Train

The RA’s Types of Thing

Who doesn’t like a good typology? Certainly the Royal Academy hanging committee do, judged by the number in its Summer Exhibition, from which I’ve chosen four.

16 July 2018 by Paul Carey-Kent in Art Reviews., Paul Carey-Kent Art Stuff on a Train