Paul Carey Kent Archives

18 May 2019 by Paul Carey-Kent in NEWS, Paul Carey-Kent Art Stuff on a Train

Photo London: All the Nudes Not Fit to Put On Instagram

The nude is potentially difficult territory in the #MeToo era, the more so as almost all of the examples at Photo London are of women. Instagram doesn’t allow them anyway, so my stream’s choices from Photo London were landscapes and portraits. And yet I found myself drawn to several interesting nudes, mostly from the rear… […]

15 May 2019 by Paul Carey-Kent in Paul Carey-Kent Art Stuff on a Train

Let’s Talk About Normal: Peter Fischli

If you attend exhibitions of contemporary photography – or Photo London, opening today – it won’t be long before you see what look at a glance like everyday images of everyday subjects presented as art. What’s that about?

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

Through a Glass, Clearly

It’s hard, you might think, to get too excited about a glass of water. Yet not only did Michael Craig-Martin famously present such a glass as an oak tree, the subject of a simple glass without so much as a still life to complement it crops up pretty often in paintings.

1 May 2019 by Paul Carey-Kent in NEWS

Sophie Layton’s Japanese Prints

I recently visited Sophie Layton at her workshop in the Shakespeare Business Centre in Brixton. It’s a print studio which operates on a hot desk basis so that some 30 printmakers can share the impressive facilities.

24 April 2019 by Paul Carey-Kent in Paul Carey-Kent Art Stuff on a Train

Hair Today

Hair is an interesting subject for art: of the body, and yet at a remove; and its own aesthetic area in the day to day. The most famous sustained body of work featuring its styles is probably the work of the Nigerian photographer J.D. Okhai Ojeikere

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

We are still mused

There seem to be plenty of idealised beauties-come-muses, 19th-century style, in London galleries just now – though maybe there are always some around if you look

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

Art of the Franz Jest

The Tate’s Franz West retrospective catches the irreverent humour of the Austrian artist – and how his art often lay in its pretending not to be art.

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

Graciela Iturbide’s Mexico

I’ve had the chance to look comprehensively at the work of Graciela Iturbide, through an extensive show of her work in Frankfurt (which itself has a sizable catalogue) and the sumptuous and informative catalogue of an even bigger show in Boston.

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.