Most days Art Critic Paul Carey-Kent spends hours on the train, traveling between his home in Southampton and his day job in London. Could he, we asked, jot down whatever came into his head?
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.
19 August 2026 • Paul Carey-Kent
Paul Carey-Kent’s Show of the Month is Hannah Hughes’ After Fragments at Swedenborg House
12 August 2026 • Paul Carey-Kent
Fish, T-shirts, sex sounds and Victorian taxonomy:
5 August 2026 • Paul Carey-Kent
Paul Carey-Kent selects the Wellcome Collection as his Gallery of the Month
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.
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.
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.
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..
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.
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.
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
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
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.
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
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
13 May 2026 • Paul Carey-Kent
The gallery was founded by curators Mary Doyle, Kate Macfarlane and Katharine Stout
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.
28 April 2026 • Paul Carey-Kent
What do you want in abstract painting – materiality, gesture, content of some sort? Cristallina Fischetti gives you all three
21 April 2026 • Paul Carey-Kent
Rózsa Farkas founded Arcadia Missa straight out of college in 2011
15 April 2026 • Paul Carey-Kent
Paul’s Work of the Month explores Sigmar Polke’s Untitled (1980–81), a layered painting blending Dada wit, classical reference and contemporary critique.
9 April 2026 • Paul Carey-Kent
91-year old Rose Wylie’s exuberantly youthful 90-work retrospective at the Royal Academy is proving extremely popular – and you have… Read More
8 April 2026 • Paul Carey-Kent
A review of Fiona McIntyre’s Sacred Earth, exploring landscape, mineral painting and her exhibition at Nature in Art.
30 March 2026 • Paul Carey-Kent
Every fair has plenty of painting, but Art Rotterdam also has a sculpture court, an innovatively presented film section,
25 March 2026 • Paul Carey-Kent
But he’s being ironic, given how artfully he re-presents reality:
