Paul’s Book of The Month with Show: Cady Noland – ‘The Clip On Method’
28 October 2026 • Paul Carey-Kent
Paul Carey-Kent on Cady Noland’s new London show and the return of The Clip-On Method.
Paul’s Art Stuff
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?
To Death Do Us Art: Emma Cousin talks to Paul Carey-Kent
21 October 2026 • Guest
Emma Cousin talks to Paul Carey-Kent about art, criticism, illness and a life spent looking.
Paul’s Fairs: Some amusement at Frieze
18 October 2026 • Paul Carey-Kent
Nine works that brought wit, absurdity and a little melancholy to Frieze.
Paul’s Gallery of the Month: Elizabeth Xi Bauer
14 October 2026 • Paul Carey-Kent
Paul Carey-Kent picks Elizabeth Xi Bauer as his Gallery of the Month.
Paul’s Show of the Month: Magali Reus – ‘Swimming by Night’
7 October 2026 • Paul Carey-Kent
Paul Carey-Kent picks Magali Reus at The Perimeter.
Paul’s Book of the Month: Jennifer Higgie – ‘Andy Holden: Weight of Imagination’
29 September 2026 • Paul Carey-Kent
Paul Carey-Kent reviews Jennifer Higgie’s new Andy Holden monograph, Weight of Imagination.
Paul’s Work of the Month: Colin Self: ‘365: A journey in that direction’, 2000-26
23 September 2026 • Paul Carey-Kent
Paul Carey-Kent picks Colin Self’s witty, sprawling 365-part new work at Frith Street Gallery.
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 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.
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