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16 September 2020 by Paul Carey-Kent in Art Reviews., EXHIBITIONS, Paul's Art Stuff

A Big Hand for Baselitz

The past few years have tended to see Georg Baselitz in fine, adventurous form, at least in the studio (less so in the interview room, where his ludicrous generalisations about female painters have tended to put people off). And you have to hand it to him here: well into his ninth decade, Baselitz has come up with a series of works quite unlike anything he has done before – a whole show of hands, many of them monumental

15 September 2020 by Mark Westall in Art Previews, Art Stuff London, EXHIBITIONS

Super Flatland

A dozen artists from Europe and Asia inhabit ‘Super Flatland’ at White Conduit Projects. Some are there as an artistic strategy, either for aesthetic reasons or to generate confusion between what is 2D and what 3D.

6 September 2020 by Paul Carey-Kent in EXHIBITIONS, Paul's Art Stuff

This Year’s Cubism

107 artists have made works in a Perspex cube for the third edition of Cure3, which provides the triple good of keenly-priced chances to obtain interesting art in a good cause – The Cure Parkinson’s Trust, which has described sufferers as feeling ‘boxed in’.

3 September 2020 by Paul Carey-Kent in EXHIBITIONS, Paul's Art Stuff

London Grads Now

It’s obvious enough that this year’s graduates have missed out on the traditional benefits of a degree show. But the Kristin Hjellegjerde Gallery has teamed up with the Saatchi Gallery to do something about it by facilitating students to curate a ‘best of ‘ selection through an open call to all those graduating this year.

12 August 2020 by Paul Carey-Kent in ART, Paul's Art Stuff

Shane Bradford’s Authentic Editions

Another, proposed as the leitmotif of the new edition-driven project ‘Assembly Line’ by Shane Bradford, is to use the fact of multiplicity as the inherent driver of editioned art.

5 August 2020 by Paul Carey-Kent in Paul's Art Stuff

Ceramic Paintings

The ceramic painting seems to be a form on the rise. Ceramics have been a trend for some years now, triggered perhaps by a desire for the visibly hand-made in the era of outsourced and / or digital production.

22 July 2020 by Paul Carey-Kent in ART, Paul's Art Stuff

Virtual with Virtue – 3 more artists to see IRL

I have also been newly interested in artists now on my list of ‘see IRL when you get the chance’. Such as these three

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's Art Stuff

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's Art Stuff

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’…