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.
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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 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 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 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.
Bridging the Gap to Explore Connection and Repair Through Sculpture at Hypha South Bank
11 June 2026 • Mark Westall
Bridging the Gap is a show of sculpture that draws inspiration from its immediate environment, using the proximity of Southwark Bridge as a metaphor
Paul’s Fairs: Photo London 2026
15 May 2026 • Paul Carey-Kent
Conversations at this year’s Photo London (14th-17th May) often started with evaluation of the 11th edition’s move from the characterful… Read More
Paul’s Gallery of the Month: Drawing Room
13 May 2026 • Paul Carey-Kent
The gallery was founded by curators Mary Doyle, Kate Macfarlane and Katharine Stout
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.
ADVANCED CONTEMPORARIES II
21 July 2025 • Mark Westall
ADVANCED CONTEMPORARIES aims to highlight and celebrate artists whose practices, spanning decades, are deserving of attention NOW.
Upcycle
6 February 2025 • Mark Westall
Using plenty of wit and a dash of deception, the artists demonstrate how something utterly mundane can be completely transformed.
Paul’s Shows: Say It With Flowers
31 October 2024 • Mark Westall
But enough of that: ‘Say It With Flowers’ sees a dozen artists tackle other subjects through flowers: sex, fertility, menopause, economics, culture, shyness, ageing, darkness…