Paul’s Gallery of the Week: Gagosian
Virginia Verran in her show of Bruce Bernard photographs Gagosian, 20 Grosvenor Hill, London W1K 3QD (plus three other London… Read More
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: Belmacz
Julia Muggenburg founded Belmacz – close to Bond Street underground station – in 2000 as a means of hosting a critically engaged exhibition program alongside her sculptural jewels and objects.
Paul’s Gallery of the Week: Bernard Jacobson Gallery
Bernard Jacobson started his career in London in the 1960s as a journalist, leading him to befriend many artists, and set up his own gallery in 1969.
Paul’s Gallery of the Week: Camden Art Centre
Camden Art Centre, founded in a former library building in 1965, has been in the news recently for an unwelcome reason: its annual Government funding has been cut by more than a third, from £937,000 to £600,000.
Paul’s Gallery of the Week: The Royal Academy of Arts
I guess no one needs to be told about the Royal Academy, founded in 1768 and iconically located not once but thrice: in the former Royal Palace of Somerset House (1771- 1836), the National Gallery (1837-67) and Burlington House, Piccadilly (1868 onwards). It used to be considered crusty and old-fashioned (the Royal Academy o‘ Farts, perhaps) but has become cooler in recent years.
Paul’s Gallery of the Week: The Brown Collection
The artist Glenn Brown has opened a free-to-visit gallery-come-museum over a sleekly impressive four floors of a purpose-adapted house in Marylebone.
Paul’s Gallery of the week: Lungley Gallery
Mark Lungley started his gallery Lungley Gallery modestly in 2018 in the cellar of a pub in Dalston – but 25 rapid fire shows made adventurous use of it, including David Harrison’s exceptionally direct ‘Fuck Me’, Lana Locke expressing her milk on film, and Brian Dawn Chalkley
Paul’s Gallery of the Week: Marlborough Gallery
The Marlborough Gallery goes back a fair way – founded in London in 1946, then expanding to New York from 1963.
Paul’s Gallery of the Week: Phillida Reid
Phillida Reid and David Southard founded Southard Reid in 2010, showing in Soho over the following decade. Since 2019 it has been solely operated by Phillida and she has recently opened a spectacular new space the other side of Charing Cross Road
Paul’s Gallery of the Week: Sprüth Magers
Leading German gallery Sprüth Magers started in Cologne, where Monika Sprüth (in 1983) and Philomene Magers (in 1991) opened separately, merging in 1998.
Paul’s Gallery of the Week: Hayward Gallery
The Hayward Gallery, opened 1968, was named after Sir Isaac Hayward, a miner and trade unionist who was the last leader of the London County Council (LCC), a few pointless local government reorganisations back.
Paul’s Gallery of the Week: Holtermann Fine Art
Holtermann Fine Art opened on Cork Street in late 2019, just ahead of the challenges of the Covid era. The owner, Marianne Holtermann, is a Norwegian as cheerful as she’d need to be, given that timing.
Paul’s Gallery of the Week: Pi artworks
Pi artworks, 55 Eastcastle Street, London, W1W 8EG www.piartworks.com Insta: @piartworks Jade Yesim Turanli founded Pi artworks in Istanbul in… Read More
Paul’s Gallery of the Week: Workplace
Workplace has an unusual history and positioning: it was founded in Gateshead – close to the Baltic Centre – in 2005 by Miles Thurlow and Paul Moss.
Paul’s Gallery of the Week: Newport Street Gallery
Say what you will about Damien Hirst’s cash cow modes of production, he loves art and ploughs a good proportion of his gains back into acquiring and showing it at his purpose-built gallery halfway between Waterloo and Vauxhall.
FRIEZE 2022: THE ARTISTS’ CHOICES
For every previous London edition of Frieze, I have looked around and reported on what interested me. This year I couldn’t be there due to a run-in with sepsis and bowel and liver cancer.
Paul’s Gallery of the Week: White Conduit Projects
White Conduit Projects is unusual in both location – in the middle of Islington’s bustling street market – and its programme. The gallerist, Yuki Miyake, is Japanese and her imaginatively varied exhibitions always have a link to her home country.
Paul’s Gallery of the Week: Seventeen
I’ve followed Seventeen closely since it was established in 2006 by former artist David Hoyland at 17 Kingsland Road, Shoreditch – retaining the name when it edged into Dalston by moving a mile up the road to the less snappily numbered block 270-276.
Paul’s Gallery of the Week: Patrick Heide
More people should visit Patrick Heide’s space:
Navigating Venice
Autumn is a good time to visit the Venice Biennale, it being cooler and less crowded than earlier in the year. Moreover, the 2022 edition is considered one of the best and the central exhibition, ‘The Milk of Dreams’, has been particularly widely praised. So here are my tips for the first time visitor:
Artists not making art
Artists are, logically enough, the centre of the art world. And that needn’t be simply for making art. They might… Read More
MILLY PECK x EMMA COUSIN at Vitrine
Milly Peck has an excellent show up now in Vitrine’s new space in Fitzrovia (to 18th Sept). The painter Emma… Read More
Almost in Seoul
Seoul, seems to be the upcoming art city at the moment. This week sees the first Korean edition of Frieze,… Read More
A very Nice Combination
It’s a seamless art transition and only a hundred yards to move from the solo shows of Milton Avery (1885-1965) to that of his daughter March Avery (born 1932, and still painting six days a week in her New York studio).