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
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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.
Basel’s new buy-annual
11 July 2025 • Toby Üpson
Opening up the art world means exposing the systems that most don’t want to see.
Paul’s Gallery of the Week: Hannah Barry Gallery
9 July 2025 • Paul Carey-Kent
Hannah Barry’s eponymous gallery has been based in Peckham since 2008, when the area had a more dubious reputation than now
THAT’s INTERESTING: Nicola Gunnarsson
3 July 2025 • Mark Westall
Nicola Gunnarsson, WHAT’S Interesting?
Paul’s Gallery of the Week: Pitzhanger Manor
2 July 2025 • Paul Carey-Kent
Pitzhanger Manor, in Ealing, was his country house. After acquiring the estate in 1800, he transformed it into a showcase of his architectural style
Paul’s Gallery of the Week: Vestry St
25 June 2025 • Paul Carey-Kent
Vestry St Gallery opened in Hoxton in 2022, as an outpost of Cross Lane Projects, in a first floor space
Paul’s Gallery of the Week: Annka Kultys Gallery
20 June 2025 • Paul Carey-Kent
This is the tenth anniversary year of Annka Kultys’ and over the decade the Swiss gallerist has developed a forward-looking and distinctive position
Paul’s Gallery of the Week: October Gallery
11 June 2025 • Paul Carey-Kent
October Gallery is a registered charity supported by grants, donations and rental of the gallery’s facilities, as well as sales of art.