Paul Carey Kent Archives

8 July 2020 by Paul Carey-Kent in NEWS

Running Around the Park with Richard Schur, John Peter Askew and Emma Cousin

Three artists mentioned that they liked the poems, and Richard Schur titled a painting after one of them. Then I asked the other two if they would like to link a work to a poem, so here I am virtually running around with three of my favourite artists, replacing my photos of the park with their art:

1 July 2020 by Paul Carey-Kent in FEATURES, Paul Carey-Kent Art Stuff on a Train

Surprises from Art UK

Art UK is the online home for every public art collection in the UK, recently represented to make 250,000 works easily searchable with a facility to curate your own show. Faced with so many options, I took took the simple approach of looking for less usual examples from some of my favourite C20th artists.

21 June 2020 by Paul Carey-Kent in NEWS, Paul Carey-Kent Art Stuff on a Train

Trouble Online at Art Basel

Art Basel’s online viewing rooms can be visited until 26 June. There is plenty of trouble in the world for that art to reflect: not just the virus, the economy, wars, terrorism and global warming but also bad attitudes. Here’s my selection of work which addresses the anti-discriminatory agenda so effectively foregrounded by ‘Me Too’ and ‘Black Lives Matter’…

17 June 2020 by Paul Carey-Kent in ART, Paul Carey-Kent Art Stuff on a Train

3 from The #artistsupportpledge

Perhaps the most heartening coronavirus development in art has been the development of the Artist Support Pledge, whereby works are offered for sale for up to £200, and when an artist sells £1,000-worth they pledge to spend £200 supporting another artist. Over 250,000 works have now been posted on Instagram at #artistsupportpledge, generating over £20m! Naturally, quality is variable at that quantity, but it is easy enough to access artists you like through their own Instagram accounts. I posted some examples in my 22 April column. Here are three more who appealed to me…

10 June 2020 by Paul Carey-Kent in EXHIBITIONS, Paul Carey-Kent Art Stuff on a Train

The Way Mark Manders Thinks

Mark Manders makes striking work which originates in a unique way of thinking. Antwerp’s Zeno X Gallery is currently showing two typical pieces in the online version of Art Brussels.

3 June 2020 by Paul Carey-Kent in Paul Carey-Kent Art Stuff on a Train

Abstract Rainbows

Here are three rainbow-channelling works which I like: superficially similar concatenations of rectangular blocks which have many underlying differences.

27 May 2020 by Paul Carey-Kent in FEATURES, Paul Carey-Kent Art Stuff on a Train

On Kawara on 27 May

Everyone knows the ‘date paintings’ of On Kawara (1933-2014), collectively known as ‘Today’. 0r do they? Can you answer the following questions?

20 May 2020 by Paul Carey-Kent in FEATURES, Paul Carey-Kent Art Stuff on a Train

Creative on Instagram

Instagram has become the default means for artists to present themselves online. Mostly, that’s to show new work, how it comes about, inspirations, recommendations – all of which can be interesting. But some go further: their Instagram account becomes, in effect, the platform for creating new work, perhaps at a slant from the work for which they’re best known. Here are four artists whose posts I look forward to from that less usual angle.

12 May 2020 by Paul Carey-Kent in FEATURES, Paul Carey-Kent Art Stuff on a Train