27 December 2023 • Paul Carey-Kent
National Portrait Gallery, St Martin’s Place, London WC2H 0HEnpg.org.uk Instagram: @nationalportraitgallery The National Portrait Gallery has now been back for… Read More
20 December 2023 • Paul Carey-Kent
The Photographers’ Gallery opened in 1971 in Covent Garden as the first UK public gallery dedicated to the medium,
13 December 2023 • Paul Carey-Kent
Can you name the Saatchi Gallery’s previous locations? Boundary Road, St John’s Wood 1985-99 and County Hall, Waterloo 2003-06 are the obvious ones prior to the Chelsea opening in 2008, but add in the interim Underwood Road, Hoxton (2000-02)
6 December 2023 • Paul Carey-Kent
Victoria Miro studied painting at the Slade and opened her first – small – gallery in Cork Street in 1985. In 2000, Miro moved to an 8,000 sq ft former furniture factory in northeast London
29 November 2023 • Paul Carey-Kent
LAMB is unusual among London galleries in two respects. First, it operates on two floors, one for art and one for design.
22 November 2023 • Paul Carey-Kent
Whitechapel Gallery has a distinguished history. Founded in 1901 to present ‘the finest art of the world for the people of the East End, London’,
18 November 2023 • Paul Carey-Kent
Art Cologne 2023 (16-19 November) features some 200 galleries: it’s not particularly international, but that doesn’t matter much, as there are so many high-quality German and Austrian galleries. Walking around an art fair is a blend of the familiar and the surprising. Here are ten things that surprised me:
15 November 2023 • Paul Carey-Kent
Yamamoto Keiko Rochaix founded her eponymous gallery in Spitalfields in 2017.
8 November 2023 • Paul Carey-Kent
The Perimeter, a non-profit exhibition space in Bloomsbury founded in 2018 by Alex Petalas. He’s a Swiss-Greek solicitor – and a collector: shows typically include works he owns and the space is named after his first purchase in 2011: a sculpture by Eva Rothschild.
1 November 2023 • Paul Carey-Kent
Hollybush Gardens belongs to the honourable tradition (Frith Street, Seventeen, Mimosa House…) of galleries named after where they used to be rather than where they are.
25 October 2023 • Paul Carey-Kent
Alison Jacques’ new space is directly opposite Waddington Custot – where she had her first permanent gallery job.
18 October 2023 • Paul Carey-Kent
Cork Street has its mojo back, with new arrivals Alison Jacques, Tiwani and Stephen Friedman adding substantially to what’s on view.
15 October 2023 • Paul Carey-Kent
Frieze Masters (to 15 Oct, viewing rooms online to 18 Oct) may have plenty of relatively familiar types of work… Read More
27 September 2023 • Paul Carey-Kent
OHSH Projects, founded in 2021, sounds like a place for the occasional off-beat presentation, but partners in art and life Henry Hussey and Sophia Olver
20 September 2023 • Paul Carey-Kent
Angela Flowers (1932-2023) founded her eponymous gallery in 1970, initially concentrating on living British artists in Central London before expanding the roster and pioneering the late 90’s trend of galleries moving east
13 September 2023 • Paul Carey-Kent
Krittika Sharma co-founded indigo+madder in Deptford in 2019, then moved to a more central location last year –
6 September 2023 • Paul Carey-Kent
Tension Fine Art has operated since 2019 in the somewhat unlikely locality of Penge in South-East London.
30 August 2023 • Paul Carey-Kent
The National Gallery… it sounds pretty comprehensive, though there’s no sculpture (where’s that national gallery?) and a more accurate title would be something like ‘The National Gallery of European Paintings by Men, 1260 – 1920’, with hardly anything from other continents and just 0.5% by women.
23 August 2023 • Paul Carey-Kent
If anyone tells me they are going to White Cube’s Bermondsey space, I advise them to drop in at Cecilia Brunson Projects, which flies comparatively under the radar but is only a stone’s throw away.
16 August 2023 • Paul Carey-Kent
Damien Hirst: ‘Octa’, 2021 from the ‘Seascapes’ – oil on canvas, 122 x 183 cm Phillips, 30 Berkeley Square, London… Read More
9 August 2023 • Paul Carey-Kent
Jay Jopling set up White Cube in a small space on Duke Street, St. James’s, where 75 shows by 75 different artists were presented between 1993-2001, including several by the YBAs with whom the gallery become closely associated.
2 August 2023 • Paul Carey-Kent
Ask London artists who they would most like to show with, and the answer is often ‘Sadie Coles’
26 July 2023 • Paul Carey-Kent
Lehmann Maupin, though, has had a permanent presence since October 2020, when Cromwell Place became the London location of the gallery founded by Rachel Lehmann and David Maupin in New York in 1996
