REVIEW: Leading your brain into a crazy pirouette: Bridget Riley at the De La Warr Pavilion
12 June 2015 • Mark Westall
A Bexhill-on-Sea retrospective of mind-bending curve paintings shows why Riley is Britain’s most significant modern artist
Tag: Exhibitions
REVIEW: Barbara Hepworth: a life told in six works
9 June 2015 • Mark Westall
We associate Barbara Hepworth with St Ives and Yorkshire, but often forget she was a driving force in international modern art. On the eve of a major Tate retrospective Tim Adams tells the dramatic story of this fascinating artist through key pieces spanning 40 years
REVIEW: Agnes Martin – beauty and steeliness at Tate Modern
8 June 2015 • Mark Westall
Tate Modern, London
This major Agnes Martin retrospective contains some gems, but overemphasis on her less original work disguises her worth
REVIEW: Y.Z Kami: Paintings – making visible the invisible
12 April 2015 • Staff
Gagosian Gallery, London
The Iranian artist strives to depict the inner lives of his subjects in portraits that are as modest as they are monumental
REVIEW: Richard Diebenkorn – colour and line under a Californian sun
23 March 2015 • Mark Westall
Sackler Wing, Royal Academy, London
Richard Diebenkorn’s figures may have lacked psychological depth, but his Ocean Park paintings are still endlessly involving, where fields of colour pull you to the horizon
REVIEW: Sculpture Victorious – everythng here was made to make us marvel
1 March 2015 • Mark Westall
Tate Britain, London
In room after room of busts and bling, Tate Britain’s Victorian sculpture show brings out the best and worst of a patriotic era
REVIEW: Wellcome Collection exhibition tracks murder from crime scene to courtroom
26 February 2015 • Mark Westall
Glass jars of blow flies, dissecting table and doll’s house-size models on show in Forensics, at newly expanded museum
Me me meme: artists’ selfies paint the full spectrum of self-obsession
28 January 2015 • Mark Westall
Turner Contemporary, Margate
From a Van Dyck self-portrait to Ian Breakwell’s heartbreaking valediction as he lay dying of cancer, this absorbing show sorts the vain from the glorious
2015: the year ahead for art in London
3 January 2015 • Staff
Rubens | Goya | Barbara Hepworth | Joseph Cornell | Ai Weiwei | Charles And Ray Eames | Eddie Peake | Alexander Calder
fig-2: A New Art exhibition every week for 2015
26 December 2014 • Staff
Fifteen years ago a Soho warehouse hosted 50 art events in 50 weeks. Writers, architects and even milliners exhibited alongside both famous, and unknown, artists. As the project is revived for 2015, Nicholas Wroe talks to its curators about capturing the spirit of the times
REVIEW: Jockum Nordström: For the insects and the hounds @DavidZwirner
22 December 2014 • Mark Westall
David Zwirner; National Gallery, London
Sweden’s Jockum Nordström unsettles with work that seems to tap into childhood. And prepare to be surprised by the long-forgotten art of Peder Balke
Conscience and Conflict: British Artists and the Spanish Civil War review – rousing, revelatory and poignant
16 November 2014 • Mark Westall
Pallant House, Chichester
How did British artists respond to the war that so famously inspired Picasso? This exemplary show is the first devoted to finding out
Michael Williams, Eoin McHugh, Christopher Orr: this week’s new exhibitions
15 November 2014 • Mark Westall
From Michael Williams’s psychedelic canvasses in London to Christopher Orr’s first solo show in Scotland, Skye Sherwin and Robert Clark find out what’s happening in art around the country
FAD Q+A with James Kerr #PostDigitalWeekend @DegreeArt
3 August 2014 • Ben Austin
Taking GIF art to a new level, artist James Kerr speaks to us about the state of Post Digital art, and just what goes into making his hilarious artistic GIFs.
VIDEO: Melanie Gurney #POSTDIGIAL
2 August 2014 • Ben Austin
Melanie Gurney from Degree Art on Vimeo. Born in Hong Kong in 199, Melanie Gurney graduated with a BA in… Read More
FAD Q+A with Alice Woods #PostDigitalWeekend @DegreeArt
2 August 2014 • Ben Austin
With a collection of varied works, we find out more about Alice’s process, and concepts
Crowdfunding and I, as told with cats
15 May 2014 • Staff
In recent years crowd funding became to be seen as an alternative way to fund projects while maintaining creative control
INTERVIEW: CURATOR, RYAN LANJI
3 April 2014 • Mark Westall
The first time I encountered Ryan Lanji was through his emails. Every so often I would receive colourful invites to exhibitions, primarily based in east London, as curated by the innately cool Lanji and his team.
Tabish’s Top 5 Art Exhibitions to see in London this week
13 January 2014 • Tabish Khan
Tabish Khan brings you five art exhibitions in London that you should visit during the week. Each one comes with a concise review to help you decide whether it’s for you.
Review: BODY LANGUAGE : Saatchi Gallery
21 November 2013 • Mark Westall
This winter, The Saatchi Gallery plays host to a vast exhibition devoted to the depiction of the human body: demonstrating the prevalence of the human form in contemporary art.
Walk Through British Art – review
19 May 2013 • Mark Westall
Tate Britain’s ambitious rehang has been widely hailed as a triumph, but our critic finds the new display congested and frustrating
Medieval master Simone Martini comes to London – the week in art
18 May 2013 • Mark Westall
Martini’s paintings go on show at the National Gallery to celebrate the Barber Institute’s 80th birthday, and Gerhard Richter sets a world record – all in your weekly art roundup
Van Gogh’s true colours were originally even brighter
3 May 2013 • Mark Westall
Research undertaken by the Van Gogh Museum reveals the master’s favourite paints have faded badly since the 1880s