Paul’s Gallery of the Week: Somers Gallery
Somers Gallery, handily placed between Euston and Kings Cross, is an unusual space which should be better known. It’s run by a Mexican, Javier Calderon, who also owns Flori Canto,
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Nadège Mériau: TENDED
In ‘Tended’, Nadège Mériau finds light and beauty in darkness and constraint through linked works emerging from the successive challenges of the Covid pandemic and her own cancer diagnosis
Paul’s Gallery of the Week: Luxembourg + Co.
London / New York gallery Luxembourg + Co. emerged in 2020 out of Luxembourg & Dayan, founded in 2009 by Daniella Luxembourg and Amalia Dayan
A Trip to TEFAF
A Trip to TEFAF – the world’s premier wide-ranging art fair – design, jewellery, clocks, books etc, across 270 stands
Paul’s Gallery of the Week: Handel Street Projects
Montenegrin gallerist and curator Fedja Klikovac, who arrived in Britain in 1992, currently shows mainly from his home in Islington – though there are plans to change that.
Paul’s Gallery of the Week: The Barbican Centre
The Barbican’s galleries lie within a labyrinthine concrete complex, part of an estate that also includes 2,000 flats, innumerable walkways, three restaurants, a public library and an impressively planted conservatory as well as an arts centre known for theatre, film, music and dance as much as visual art.
Paul’s Gallery of the Week: Sid Motion Gallery
Sid Motion comes from an artistic background – her father is Andrew Motion, poet laureate 1999-2009; her mother Jan Dalley, arts editor of the Financial Times –
Paul’s Gallery of the Week: Niru Ratnam
Niru Ratnam (don’t call him Ratman, a common error!) has popped up across the years in various galleries I’ve visited – I recall him at Aicon, Frith Street and Koenig as well as running fairs.
Paul’s Gallery of the Week: The Estorick Collection
This year marks the 25th anniversary of the Estorick Collection, which occupies a distinctive niche as Britain’s only museum devoted to modern Italian art.
The Variety of BRAFA 2023
The Brussels Antiques & Fine Arts Fair – BRAFA was founded it 1956, making it the longest-running such event…. Read More
Paul’s Gallery of the Week: Belmacz
Julia Muggenburg founded Belmacz – close to Bond Street underground station – in 2000 as a means of hosting a critically engaged exhibition program alongside her sculptural jewels and objects.
Paul’s Gallery of the Week: The Royal Academy of Arts
I guess no one needs to be told about the Royal Academy, founded in 1768 and iconically located not once but thrice: in the former Royal Palace of Somerset House (1771- 1836), the National Gallery (1837-67) and Burlington House, Piccadilly (1868 onwards). It used to be considered crusty and old-fashioned (the Royal Academy o‘ Farts, perhaps) but has become cooler in recent years.
Paul’s Gallery of the Week: The Brown Collection
The artist Glenn Brown has opened a free-to-visit gallery-come-museum over a sleekly impressive four floors of a purpose-adapted house in Marylebone.
Paul’s Gallery of the week: Lungley Gallery
Mark Lungley started his gallery Lungley Gallery modestly in 2018 in the cellar of a pub in Dalston – but 25 rapid fire shows made adventurous use of it, including David Harrison’s exceptionally direct ‘Fuck Me’, Lana Locke expressing her milk on film, and Brian Dawn Chalkley
Paul’s Gallery of the Week: Marlborough Gallery
The Marlborough Gallery goes back a fair way – founded in London in 1946, then expanding to New York from 1963.
Paul’s Gallery of the Week: Phillida Reid
Phillida Reid and David Southard founded Southard Reid in 2010, showing in Soho over the following decade. Since 2019 it has been solely operated by Phillida and she has recently opened a spectacular new space the other side of Charing Cross Road
Paul’s Gallery of the Week: Sprüth Magers
Leading German gallery Sprüth Magers started in Cologne, where Monika Sprüth (in 1983) and Philomene Magers (in 1991) opened separately, merging in 1998.
Paul’s Gallery of the Week: Hayward Gallery
The Hayward Gallery, opened 1968, was named after Sir Isaac Hayward, a miner and trade unionist who was the last leader of the London County Council (LCC), a few pointless local government reorganisations back.
Paul’s Gallery of the Week: Holtermann Fine Art
Holtermann Fine Art opened on Cork Street in late 2019, just ahead of the challenges of the Covid era. The owner, Marianne Holtermann, is a Norwegian as cheerful as she’d need to be, given that timing.
Paul’s Gallery of the Week: Pi artworks
Pi artworks, 55 Eastcastle Street, London, W1W 8EG www.piartworks.com Insta: @piartworks Jade Yesim Turanli founded Pi artworks in Istanbul in… Read More
Paul’s Gallery of the Week: Workplace
Workplace has an unusual history and positioning: it was founded in Gateshead – close to the Baltic Centre – in 2005 by Miles Thurlow and Paul Moss.
Paul’s Gallery of the Week: Newport Street Gallery
Say what you will about Damien Hirst’s cash cow modes of production, he loves art and ploughs a good proportion of his gains back into acquiring and showing it at his purpose-built gallery halfway between Waterloo and Vauxhall.
FRIEZE 2022: THE ARTISTS’ CHOICES
For every previous London edition of Frieze, I have looked around and reported on what interested me. This year I couldn’t be there due to a run-in with sepsis and bowel and liver cancer.
Paul’s Gallery of the Week: Patrick Heide
More people should visit Patrick Heide’s space: