2 May 2023 • Paul Carey-Kent
Berlin has the coordination London lacks, and so it is that the annual Berlin Gallery Weekend sees 55 galleries on the official programme and at least as many other galleries all opening new shows on Friday 29 April
26 April 2023 • Paul Carey-Kent
VITRINE, following the opening of a new Fitzrovia space in May 2022 and last month’s relaunch of its original Bermondsey space – a shopfront-style space – might now be seen as a mega-gallery
19 April 2023 • Paul Carey-Kent
Jean Cooke: ‘Beach, Birling Gap’ 1975 Piano Nobile, 96/129 Portland Road, London, W11 4LW www.piano-nobile.com Instagram @pianonobilegallery Piano Nobile was… Read More
13 April 2023 • Paul Carey-Kent
I’ve been around long enough to remember when Pippy Houldsworth opened on Cork Street in 1999, moving west for a while before settling in Heddon Street from 2011.
29 March 2023 • Paul Carey-Kent
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,
27 March 2023 • Mark Westall
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
22 March 2023 • Paul Carey-Kent
London / New York gallery Luxembourg + Co. emerged in 2020 out of Luxembourg & Dayan, founded in 2009 by Daniella Luxembourg and Amalia Dayan
13 March 2023 • Paul Carey-Kent
A Trip to TEFAF – the world’s premier wide-ranging art fair – design, jewellery, clocks, books etc, across 270 stands
8 March 2023 • Paul Carey-Kent
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.
22 February 2023 • Paul Carey-Kent
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.
15 February 2023 • Paul Carey-Kent
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 –
8 February 2023 • Paul Carey-Kent
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.
1 February 2023 • Paul Carey-Kent
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.
28 January 2023 • Paul Carey-Kent
The Brussels Antiques & Fine Arts Fair – BRAFA was founded it 1956, making it the longest-running such event…. Read More
18 January 2023 • Paul Carey-Kent
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.
28 December 2022 • Paul Carey-Kent
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.
21 December 2022 • Paul Carey-Kent
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.
14 December 2022 • Paul Carey-Kent
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
7 December 2022 • Paul Carey-Kent
The Marlborough Gallery goes back a fair way – founded in London in 1946, then expanding to New York from 1963.
30 November 2022 • Paul Carey-Kent
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
23 November 2022 • Paul Carey-Kent
Leading German gallery Sprüth Magers started in Cologne, where Monika Sprüth (in 1983) and Philomene Magers (in 1991) opened separately, merging in 1998.
16 November 2022 • Paul Carey-Kent
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.
9 November 2022 • Paul Carey-Kent
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.
2 November 2022 • Paul Carey-Kent
Pi artworks, 55 Eastcastle Street, London, W1W 8EG www.piartworks.com Insta: @piartworks Jade Yesim Turanli founded Pi artworks in Istanbul in… Read More
