Review: Renata Ottati, Chambers city gallery, Glasgow.
4 December 2025 • Toby Üpson
the way she gives a fat-ass form to the dumb things that linger and replay over and over and over again in her mind is phenomenal
REVIEWS
Art reviews, The most interesting art exhibitions reviewed by FAD magazine.
Paul’s Show of the Month
3 December 2025 • Paul Carey-Kent
It is certainly worth paying £10 to see The Photographers’ Gallery’s retrospective of the influential Ukrainian artist Boris Mikhailov
Review: Monument to the Unimportant the winter group show at Pace, London
2 December 2025 • Darren Flook
Group shows normally have one or two anchors, these are the pieces that hold a show together
Review: Art confronting atrocities – there are Seeds of Hate and Hope at the Sainsbury Centre, Norwich.
2 December 2025 • Tabish Khan
A hard-hitting exhibition where art reflects on genocides, ethnic cleansing, and human rights abuses.
Review: Heaven In A Wildflower
1 December 2025 • Mark Westall
Heaven In A Wildflower unfolds less like a duo show and more like two distinct worlds held in the same atmospheric pressure
No Rush: The Unseen World of Norman Hyams
29 November 2025 • Kate McIlwee
No Rush is the first posthumous exhibition of Norman Hyams at the Hannah Barry Gallery
Systems, Material, Memory: Three Structural Fields at Upsilon Gallery
28 November 2025 • Yichun Huang
Across its two floors in London’s Mayfair, Upsilon Gallery unfolds a three-part study in structure.
Review: William Nicholson at Pallant House Gallery
26 November 2025 • Toby Üpson
The Nicholson family has been having a moment.
Chanel Khoury’s Paintings Are Not AI (But You’re Forgiven for Thinking So)
25 November 2025 • Jane Horowitz
But the images are fully hand-painted, and they are Khoury’s articulation of 19th-century German philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer’s “objectification of will”
Review: Duan Jianyu, Yúqiáo, A Philosophy Rooted in Everyday Life.
25 November 2025 • Yichun Huang
YDP opened its inaugural exhibition, Duan Jianyu: Yúqiáo, marking the artist’s first major solo presentation in the UK in over a decade.
Drifting Selves- a group exhibition bringing together 50 artists from across the world.
24 November 2025 • Mark Westall
Being between places, states, or identities runs through “Drifting Selves,” a group exhibition that brought together 50 artists from across the world
Review: Art that reminds us of what’s been lost – Erasure at Goodwood Art Foundation
24 November 2025 • Tabish Khan
Art that won’t let us sweep away the past.
The Top 5 Painting Exhibitions to see in London this Winter
21 November 2025 • Tabish Khan
Black history, cakes, lost paintings, repose and hands.
From Stillness to Spectacle: Two Exhibitions in Deptford
18 November 2025 • Kate McIlwee
Two neighbouring shows – each offering a different way of experiencing art through meditation and performance.
Review: Lottie Stoddart – Dismember My Monster at The Tagli
14 November 2025 • Yichun Huang
Walking into The Tagli, Lottie Stoddart’s exhibition feels like entering a small theatre.
Review: Highgate Art Fair 2025
10 November 2025 • Oliver Malin
Highgate Art Fair has enjoyed a second successful edition
The Top 5 Art Exhibitions to see in London right NOW
9 November 2025 • Tabish Khan
Flowers, exploding landscapes, shadows, a church and a uterus.
The Architectural, Spiritual and Personal: Karl Singporewala at SOAS Gallery
7 November 2025 • Tabish Khan
It’s a surreal, otherworldly artwork and a nod to artist Karl Singporewala’s other life as an architect
Review: “The Print and the Time” — Reflections on Counter Editions: 25 Years
7 November 2025 • Yichun Huang
Counter Editions: 25 Years unfolds as a vivid survey of contemporary printmaking. Bringing 70+ leading artists & over 140 limited-edition works
Review: Wandering Till the Wind Whispers My Land
4 November 2025 • Mark Westall
Wandering Till the Wind Whispers My Land unfolds as a poetic investigation into wind, wandering, and the perennial search for belonging.
Flora Yukhnovich Turns Rococo Excess into Modern Chaos at Hauser & Wirth
4 November 2025 • Jane Horowitz
Flora Yukhnovich arrived in New York in 2024 — just as Donald Trump won a second term — and, according to curator Eleanor Nairne, the timing mattered.
The Top 5 Art Exhibitions to see in London in November
3 November 2025 • Tabish Khan
Ruins, craft, swearing, fox hunting and ghosts.
The Top 5 things to see at Artissima and Highlights from Turin Art Week
1 November 2025 • Tabish Khan
Highlights from an impressive art fair and the top exhibitions in Turin.
Infinite Bodies at Somerset House — Movement, Multiplicity & the Edge of the Possible
31 October 2025 • Mark Westall
Somerset House marks the culmination of it’s 25th birthday celebrations not with a retrospective, but a living, breathing experiment. Infinite Bodies, a landmark exhibition