Paul’s Fairs: London Art Fair 2026
21 January 2026 • Paul Carey-Kent
Now, for ten works I discovered and appreciated while actually strolling around the fair
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Paul’s Work of the Month– ‘Hot Love’ by Glenn Brown
14 January 2026 • Paul Carey-Kent
Glenn Brown employs strategies of appropriation, but with two twists.
AI: from aid to auteur / from art to industry
13 January 2026 • Toby Üpson
I am suspicious of the raison d’être guiding art tech collaborations
Paul’s Gallery of the Month: Danielle Arnaud
7 January 2026 • Paul Carey-Kent
set up her gallery in 1995, with the idea of encouraging artists ‘to develop their practice without the constraints of market or trends’.
Paul’s Work of the Month
17 December 2025 • Paul Carey-Kent
This is from White Cube Bermondsey’s comprehensive account of pioneering black American artist Howardena Pindell’s practice
Paul’s Gallery of the Week: James Freeman
10 December 2025 • Paul Carey-Kent
Founded in 2003, James Freeman operates with invariable good cheer in Islington
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
Paul’s Gallery of the Week: Perrotin
26 November 2025 • Paul Carey-Kent
Emmanuel Perrotin famously founded his original Paris gallery in 1990 at the age of just twenty-one
Paul’s Work of The Month. Dana Schutz: The Kiss, 2025
19 November 2025 • Paul Carey-Kent
In the simpler composition of ‘The Kiss’, just two figures become one in an embrace that seems equally readable as sex, violence or dance.
Paul’s Gallery of the Week: Paul Stolper Gallery
12 November 2025 • Paul Carey-Kent
Paul Stolper Gallery, founded in 1998, works directly with artists to publish limited editions, as well as running an exhibition programme.
Paul’s Gallery of the Week: GPS Gallery
5 November 2025 • Paul Carey-Kent
The GPS Gallery’s name refers not to the Global Positioning System but to its specific location within that system: Great Pulteney Street
#frieze got ya art history
3 November 2025 • Toby Üpson
frieze magazine kicked off its countdown of ‘The 25 Best Works of the 21st Century’.
Paul’s Puff for Prints
30 October 2025 • Paul Carey-Kent
It’s easy to pass on by because you have already seen them – yet how fully have you looked?
Paul’s World Tour of Frieze
16 October 2025 • Paul Carey-Kent
This, then, is my even more convenient world tour, undertaken virtually from the cancer unit in Southampton General Hospital…
Paul’s Trip to Oxford
8 October 2025 • Paul Carey-Kent
Oxford (like Cambridge) is a much-visited city that has plenty of art:
Paul’s trip to Hastings
1 October 2025 • Paul Carey-Kent
There’s always a lively programme in the purpose-built galleries in Hastings old town
Paul’s trip to Bruton.
24 September 2025 • Paul Carey-Kent
The small market town of Bruton, nestled in Somerset 120 miles from London has become a cultural hub over the past decade
Sarah Sze and Elizabeth Peyton: Two remarkable auction successes
19 September 2025 • Guest
At first glance, Sarah Sze and Elizabeth Peyton appear to be polar opposites.
THAT’s INTERESTING Faissal El-Malak
11 September 2025 • Mark Westall
Faissal El-Malak WHAT’s Interesting?
What’s an Art/Gallery Week/Weekend
1 September 2025 • Toby Üpson
What is an art/gallery week/weekend? Who are these events for? What do they aim to achieve, how?
Paul’s Index of Art Tragedy
26 August 2025 • Paul Carey-Kent
What was the most tragic early death of an artist? Welcome to: Paul Carey Kent’s ‘Index of Art Tragedy’
THAT’s INTERESTING: Maria Gorodeckaya
5 August 2025 • Mark Westall
Maria Gorodeckaya artist, photographer and DJ – What’s Interesting?
Paul’s Gallery of the Week: Hauser & Wirth
23 July 2025 • Paul Carey-Kent
Hauser & Wirth was founded in 1992 in Zurich by Iwan Wirth, Manuela Wirth, and Ursula Hauser.