8 November 2019 • Mark Westall
A portrait of musician Florence Welch by photographer and director Tom Beard is on display at the National Portrait Gallery in their New Acquisitions exhibition.
7 October 2019 • Tabish Khan
Heston Blumenthal’s pubic hair, Da Vinci, Jews, the top deck of a bus, pillars, diamonds and wrinkles.
25 August 2019 • Tabish Khan
Black pioneers, a creepy clown, a spinning car, a pile of ears and a giant spider.
24 July 2019 • Paul Carey-Kent
The National Portrait Gallery’s mixture of history, people and art can is currently at its strongest. The pay-for exhibition, of Cindy Sherman, is a convincing presentation of 40 years of self-images which includes some fascinating rarely-seen early works and new-to-Britain late works as well as her most seminal series, including all 70 ‘screen tests’.
20 May 2019 • Tabish Khan
Brexit Britain, night time, Milton Keynes, reggae, broken cities, encounters and crowd barriers.
12 May 2019 • Tabish Khan
Dalston, miniatures, Rembrandt, flooding, nature, colour and navigation.
14 January 2019 • Tabish Khan
This week art exhibitions include A giant hare, torture, black power, legs, brothers, textiles and dark nudes.
6 January 2019 • Tabish Khan
The Top 7 art exhibitions to see this week include Polyamory, Impressionism, a Porsche, drum majorettes, umbrellas, eruption and equality.
7 October 2018 • Tabish Khan
This week’s Top 7 includes:!Crotch grabs, an estate agent, towers, a melting collector, lightning, yoga and floating ships.
21 June 2018 • Staff
One of the works offered by Niels Borch Jensen Gallery that struck me was Tacita Dean’s Quarantania (2018) – a stunning work on seven panels depicting a mountain against a rusty pink graduated sky, reminiscent of Ed Ruscha.
25 February 2018 • Staff
This Thursday London was ripe with previews. One of the most exciting was the opening of Michelangelo Pistoletto’s Scaffali at Simon Lee. I had seen the same works at Simon Lee New York last November but had missed the exciting energy an opening charges pieces with.
11 June 2017 • Tabish Khan
Art critic Tabish Khan brings you the top art exhibitions to visit this week. Each one comes with a concise… Read More
21 May 2017 • Tabish Khan
Not 5 but 9 exhibitions to catch this week
7 April 2017 • Lee Sharrock
This stunning exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery brings together two seemingly disparate female artists, their careers divided by more than seven decades, but with rather more in common aesthetically and philosophically than it would first appear.
15 December 2016 • Mark Westall
Portrait of former director of National Portrait Gallery will be first big work by Close to enter public collection in UK
6 October 2016 • Lee Sharrock
During what is now commonly referred to as ‘Frieze Week’ – such is the power of the art fair behemoth that is Frieze – the National Portrait Gallery have unveiled “Picasso Portraits”, and proven that the Modern Masters beat the young pretenders to the art world throne hands down.
1 August 2016 • Herbert Wright
You don’t think of William Eggleston as a portrait photographer. He is known for his colour shots of the everyday American South in the 60s and 70s – slow-time smalltown scenes with nothing in particular happening, buildings and signage, fields beyond the roadside. But..
19 June 2016 • Tabish Khan
Art critic Tabish Khan brings you the top art exhibitions to visit this week.
21 December 2015 • Tabish Khan
Art Critic Tabish chooses five art exhibitions to keep you stimulated over the Christmas period ..
24 August 2015 • Tabish Khan
This week’s top 5 features volcanic lightning, refugees, Calder, coloured smoke and Indians of African descent.
9 March 2015 • Tabish Khan
This week’s top 6 features Canadian painting, war photography, social commentary, architecture, fracking and fragile sculpture
27 February 2015 • Mark Westall
Portrait by Sir Thomas Lawrence was commissioned by society hostess Lady Jersey in 1829 and left unfinished following the artist’s death
9 February 2015 • Tabish Khan
This week’s top 5 includes giant steel sculptures, photography, burka clad police officers, crystalline faces and a group show.
13 October 2014 • VC Maurer
Engels the Artist did not get into art, art got into him. Endowed with a magnetic presence and energy, recently Trick’s VC received the opportunity to visit the studio of this noteworthy artist.
