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Paul’s Show of the Month: Ali Kazim – Alphabets

16 September 2026 • Paul Carey-Kent

Paul Carey-Kent explores Ali Kazim’s richly layered watercolours and etchings at Cristea Roberts.

Paul’s Gallery of the Month: The Guildhall Art Gallery

10 September 2026 • Paul Carey-Kent

Paul Carey-Kent heads to the Square Mile for an underrated London gallery packed with Victorian art, Rossetti and Jock McFadyen’s gritty Underground paintings.

Paul’s Show of the Month – John Currin: ‘Opening Credits’ at Sadie Coles, 17 Savile Row, to 12th September

2 September 2026 • Paul Carey-Kent

Paul Carey-Kent takes another look at John Currin’s strange and contradictory new paintings at Sadie Coles.

Paul’s Book of the Month: Alex Katz – Milestones: At the Heart of Creation

26 August 2026 • Paul Carey-Kent

Ahead of Alex Katz’s 100th birthday, Paul Carey-Kent explores a new 284-page book tracing the inspirations, people and ideas behind his remarkable career.

Paul’s Show of the Month: Hannah Hughes: After Fragments

19 August 2026 • Paul Carey-Kent

Paul Carey-Kent’s Show of the Month is Hannah Hughes’ After Fragments at Swedenborg House

Paul’s Work of the Month: Appau Jnr Boakye-Yiadom: ‘Patent 3306x’

12 August 2026 • Paul Carey-Kent

Fish, T-shirts, sex sounds and Victorian taxonomy:

Paul’s Gallery of the Month: Wellcome Collection

5 August 2026 • Paul Carey-Kent

Paul Carey-Kent selects the Wellcome Collection as his Gallery of the Month

Paul’s Book of the Month: Eric Butcher – Trace Elements

29 July 2026 • Paul Carey-Kent

Paul Carey-Kent reviews Trace Elements, a new monograph documenting Eric Butcher’s striking shift towards a more sustainable artistic practice.

Paul’s Gallery of the Month: Thomas Dane Gallery

22 July 2026 • Paul Carey-Kent

Thomas Dane opened his eponymous gallery in 2004 with François Chantala and Martine d’Anglejan-Chatillon, who went on to become partners.

Paul’s Work of the Month

16 July 2026 • Paul Carey-Kent

Paul Carey-Kent chooses Kenjiro Okazaki’s richly layered abstract painting at Pace Gallery as his Work of the Month.

Paul's Art Stuff

Paul’s Show of the Month – Chico da Silva: And the Soul Is for the Birds at Nottingham Contemporary

8 July 2026 • Paul Carey-Kent

Paul Carey-Kent reviews Chico da Silva’s first European institutional solo exhibition, where 36 paintings reveal a vivid cosmology of hybrid creatures..

Paul’s Basel- Part Two

1 July 2026 • Paul Carey-Kent

Paul Carey-Kent-two of Basel’s most memorable exhibitions: Frank Stella at the Jewish Museum and Chloe Wise at Kulturstiftung Basel H. Geiger.

Paul’s Fairs: Art Basel | Basel 2026

24 June 2026 • Paul Carey-Kent

From Louise Bourgeois and Taryn Simon to Bruce Nauman and Ana Mendieta, Paul Carey-Kent selects his standout discoveries from Art Basel 2026.

Idan Gilony on food, fashion and the art of gathering

22 June 2026 • Irene Machetti

Idan Gilony reflects on food as a medium, leaving fashion behind, creative risk and why meaningful experiences matter more than aesthetics alone.

Paul’s Work of the Month: David Hockney – ‘My Parents’, 1977

17 June 2026 • Paul Carey-Kent

David Hockney’s My Parents is more than a portrait of Kenneth and Laura Hockney. It is a carefully constructed account

Paul’s Gallery of the Month: SLQS Gallery

10 June 2026 • Paul Carey-Kent

Founded by Sarah Le Quang Sang in 2024, SLQS Gallery has quickly established itself as one of Shoreditch’s most compelling new spaces

Paul’s Book of the Month: Marguerite Humeau – Auguries

3 June 2026 • Paul Carey-Kent

Paul Carey-Kent reviews Auguries, a major publication exploring Marguerite Humeau’s ambitious sculptures, ecological thinking and land art projects.

Paul’s Work of the Month: Hurvin Anderson: Country Club: Chicken Wire, 2008, at Tate Britain

27 May 2026 • mark westall

Hurvin Anderson: Country Club: Chicken Wire, 2008 – oil on canvas, 240 x 347 cm Hurvin Anderson’s superb 80-work retrospective… Read More

Paul’s Fairs: Photo London 2026

15 May 2026 • Paul Carey-Kent

Conversations at this year’s Photo London (14th-17th May) often started with evaluation of the 11th edition’s move from the characterful… Read More

Paul’s Gallery of the Month: Drawing Room

13 May 2026 • Paul Carey-Kent

The gallery was founded by curators Mary Doyle, Kate Macfarlane and Katharine Stout

Paul’s Book of the Month: Craig Easton, An Extremely Un-get-atable Place

7 May 2026 • Paul Carey-Kent

In 1946, George Orwell (1903-50) wrote an entertaining piece for the Evening Standard, setting out his eleven rules for making the perfect cup of tea.