Art Review Archives

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

Tish Murtha & Kuba Ryniewicz: Close to Home

13 July 2026 • Yichun Huang

Yichun Liu reviews Close to Home at Baltic, where Tish Murtha’s powerful documentary photography is placed in conversation with Kuba Ryniewicz’s intimate contemporary portraits of Newcastle.

Notes on Rhizome’s Conference 2026

12 July 2026 • Rayya Fadlo Khuri

Michael Connor discusses AI, internet art, NFTs, privacy and why artists continue to engage with the technologies of the moment.

DIGITAL

There was only one Frida Kahlo

26 June 2026 • Lee Sharrock

Frida Kahlo’s paintings remain extraordinary, but does Tate Modern devote too much space to the icon that emerged after her death?

Inside Basquiat’s Head: the drawings that reveal the artist’s inner world

22 June 2026 • Shireen Ikramullah

Basquiat – Headstrong at Louisiana Museum of Modern Art brought together 50 works focused on the human head

REVIEWS

Mat Collishaw’s Last Meal on Death Row, Texas Is a Powerful Meditation on Mortality

2 June 2026 • Mark Westall

Mat Collishaw’s Last Meal on Death Row, Texas transforms final meals into haunting contemporary vanitas works

5 very different art fairs throughout two days in New York City

15 May 2026 • Rayya Fadlo Khuri

After crawling through these 5 fairs (Frieze, NADA, Independent, 1-54, Esther III) during New York Art Fair Week, I found larger themes..

Eyes Wide Open: The Surreal Worlds of Olga Puzikova

15 May 2026 • Tabish Khan

The surreal, the spiritual and the stars.

Thomas Houseago’s ‘Esculturas’ transforms Madrid’s Jardín Banca March into a charged sculptural garden

6 May 2026 • Martin Sexton

Thomas Houseago’s ‘Esculturas’ at Jardín Banca March stages sculpture as something alive—raw, mythic

Paul’s Work of the Month – Sigmar Polke: Untitled, 1980-81

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.

Paul's Art Stuff

Cathrin Hoffmann: Sill at Public Gallery

13 April 2026 • Yichun Huang

Entering the exhibition, the paintings on the wall seem to grow out of the soil.

The Riot or the Rave?

19 March 2026 • Hannah Hayes-Westall

Giuditta Branconi’s generation-dividing show is the evidence we need that when it comes to image, perception is all about volume control.

Maxime Bichon, La poursuite [The chase]

26 March 2024 • Toby Üpson

To think about Maxmine Bichon’s first institutional exhibition analogously, I will begin with a quote from Tracy Chevalier’s novel Girl… Read More

REVIEWS

WITHOUT A DOUBT: Ed Clark at Hauser & Wirth

14 March 2022 • Alexandra Zirinis

If you look closely, a strand of hair, an eyelash, and bristles of a paintbrush are all materials found in… Read More

June Art Fair presented with Hauser & Wirth + Art Review

14 August 2020 • Mark Westall

June Art Fair’s Special Online Edition is presented in partnership with Hauser & Wirth and ArtReview Magazine, works from established and emerging artists from a select group of 17 galleries are shown on a virtual platform.

Art Previews

Best of Autumn Anime 2018

14 December 2018 • Staff

This autumn season has undoubtedly been one of the best for anime releases this year with aesthetic masterpieces on the one hand and controversial storytelling on the other.

ANIME

ART EVENT: ART SOCIAL 14 A four day festival of Music, Art + Culture @HoStBarnabas

25 July 2014 • Mark Westall

Opening next week a great festival of Music, art and Culture.

Launch : ArtReview Live – dienstag abend this Friday 29th November

26 November 2013 • Mark Westall

Art Review launch Art review Live with Absolut

NEWS

Natascha Sadr Haghighian at Carroll / Fletcher Gallery

5 September 2012 • Yvette

Two objects: one black trolley suitcase, with wheels, and telescopic handle pulled out. Beneath the handle an empty 1.5 litre PET water bottle. Its label removed, it is anonymous and unremarkable.

REVIEWS

Eleven for Future Map 11

3 January 2012 • Rachel Bennett

Future Map 11 starts on January 12th, and in the 11 days leading up to the exhibition FAD will be profiling eleven of the thirty artists who have been brought together for the show.