Paul Carey Kent Archives

20 March 2019 by Paul Carey-Kent in NEWS, Paul Carey-Kent Art Stuff on a Train

Blind Sided: Sargy Mann and Phoebe Boswell

My very first weekly column – this is the 300th – considered the matter of blind art and the absence of a powerful congenitally blind artist. That hasn’t changed, but..

13 March 2019 by Paul Carey-Kent in Paul Carey-Kent Art Stuff on a Train

A visit to Elephant West

The launch of Elephant West, a big new space in a former garage next to White City tube, and linked to Elephant Magazine, is one of the most welcome recent developments in London’s art scene.

6 March 2019 by Paul Carey-Kent in Art Reviews., Paul Carey-Kent Art Stuff on a Train

Art or Design at Collect…

What’s the difference between art and design?

27 February 2019 by Paul Carey-Kent in Paul Carey-Kent Art Stuff on a Train

What’s It Worth at Auction?

Both Sotheby’s (S) and Christies (C) have major London auctions this week, head to head in impressionist, modern and surrealist categories.

20 February 2019 by Paul Carey-Kent in NEWS

Bonnard: The Colour of Memory and The Memory of Colour

Here, from the Tate’s show ‘The Colour of Memory’, is everything you want in a Bonnard. ‘Young Women in the Garden’ (1921–3, reworked 1945–6) centres on his model and lover Renée Monchaty (1900-25), who committed suicide..

13 February 2019 by Paul Carey-Kent in Art Reviews., EXHIBITIONS, Paul Carey-Kent Art Stuff on a Train

Andy Holden’s Laws of Motion

Andy Holden has sourced over 400 illustrative clips, the range of references – from cave painting to Futurism to Slavoj Žižek to quantum mechanics – is dizzying, and the analogies he draws out of the material are persuasive and witty.

9 February 2019 by Paul Carey-Kent in Art Fair News, Art Reviews.

Picks From Art Rotterdam 2019

Art Rotterdam (7-10 Feb) and the associated shows and events in a dynamic and architecturally stimulating city are always interesting –

6 February 2019 by Paul Carey-Kent in Art Reviews., EXHIBITIONS, Paul Carey-Kent Art Stuff on a Train

The Pleasures of Tracey’s Traumas

You might describe Tracey Emin’s huge and superbly orchestrated show ‘A Fortnight of Tears’ at White Cube as a pleasurable maximisation of pain.

30 January 2019 by Paul Carey-Kent in Paul Carey-Kent Art Stuff on a Train

The Tate for Two Year Olds

I was surprised to find recently just how much there is at Tate Modern which might entertain the typical two-year-old year old.

23 January 2019 by Paul Carey-Kent in Art Reviews., Paul Carey-Kent Art Stuff on a Train

Gypsies and the Role of Political Art

Polish Roma artist Krzysztof Gil’s ‘Welcome to the Country where the Gypsy Has Been Hunted’* was an interesting and unusual exhibition emerging from his parallel art practice and PhD research into how discrimination against the Roma took place much longer ago than we might suppose.