Parallel strategies: Barbara Walker and Lubaina Himid
20 April 2022 • Paul Carey-Kent
Lubaina Himid: from ‘Swallow Hard: The Lancaster Dinner Service’, 2007 Two current shows mine parallel strategies with effect to foreground… Read More
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Still Working in the Studio?
13 April 2022 • Paul Carey-Kent
Perhaps, then, the studio is slipping towards historic status. Not that there’s anything wrong with a historic survey (‘A Century of the Artist’s Studio: 1920 – 2020’ to 5 June)
Waking Up to Woking
30 March 2022 • Paul Carey-Kent
Woking may not be trendy… but it’s only 19 train minutes from Clapham Junction and has a new shopping centre! What do you mean, you still don’t want to go? It also has plenty of art at the moment:
Seeing Through Glass
16 March 2022 • Paul Carey-Kent
Now the show in Leeds presents a 50-50 mixture of glass specialists and wider-ranging artists working in the material, all illuminatingly categorised by the material property foregrounded in the processes used. ‘SOLID’ features cast or moulded glass; ‘GAS’, sculptures made by blowing into the glass; ‘LIQUID’ the results of manipulating molten glass. Here’s one of each that order:
In the Shadows of Bacon
23 February 2022 • Paul Carey-Kent
The Royal Academy’s ‘Man and Beast’ offers the chance to see many prime paintings by Bacon
Cloudy
9 February 2022 • Paul Carey-Kent
It is easy to assume that artists want to leave a permanent mark, to make a work that will endure… Read More
What to See in February
2 February 2022 • Paul Carey-Kent
What to see in London in February? Here’s my pick of ten shows which are (a) free and (b) open… Read More
The New Courtauld
26 January 2022 • Paul Carey-Kent
Some galleries – the Hayward is exemplary in this regard – close for years to refurbish, only to leave re-visitors… Read More
Art at UCL, Japanese special
19 January 2022 • Paul Carey-Kent
I hadn’t clocked University College London as much of an art destination until recently: sure, the campus between Euston and Warren Street boasts the agreeably off-beat Grant Museum of Zoology and Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology, but art?
Paintings on the Radio
12 January 2022 • Paul Carey-Kent
It may not sound logical, but not only are there many interesting podcasts that talk to artists, but radio can… Read More
The Top 5 Exhibitions to see in 2022
1 January 2022 • Tabish Khan
Tabish Khan the @LondonArtCritic picks his favourite exhibitions to see as we head into a new year. Each one comes with a… Read More
On with the Not-So New
29 December 2021 • Paul Carey-Kent
It’s not entirely out with the old in the gallery world. Here’s a choice of ten free-to-visit London shows which… Read More
Art of Glass
22 December 2021 • Paul Carey-Kent
The old distinctions between ‘art’ and ‘craft’ have reduced sufficiently in recent years that ceramics and textiles can now be… Read More
Art for Christmas?
15 December 2021 • Paul Carey-Kent
A seasonal tradition has developed of showing works small and affordable enough that they could plausibly make gifts. Flowers Gallery have the longest-running current exhibition with such a premise: this is the 39th year of ‘Small is Beautiful’
Radical Art at the Royal Academy
1 December 2021 • Paul Carey-Kent
There’s still plenty of time to see this winter’s edition of the RA Summer Show, which runs on past Christmas…. Read More
The (Biased) Best of Bournemouth
24 November 2021 • Paul Carey-Kent
Tessa Farmer: detail of Swarming Fever, 2021 Bournemouth rose to prominence as the favoured Victorian tourist destination by the sea,… Read More
London’s No. 1
17 November 2021 • Paul Carey-Kent
People quite often ask me what galleries I recommend. For the last few weeks, and quite possibly the next few… Read More
NATUREMAX: a new way of seeing nature?
16 November 2021 • Mark Westall
The next exhibition at GIANT is the group show NATUREMAX, curated by Paul Carey-Kent, featuring work by: Saelia Aparici, Rebecca… Read More
Ten Choices from the ING Discerning Eye Exhibition
9 November 2021 • Paul Carey-Kent
The ING Discerning Eye Exhibition is an annual show of small-scale works chosen by a panel of six prominent art world figures – two artists, two collectors and two critics.
Covidous Drawings
27 October 2021 • Paul Carey-Kent
Drawing has an immediacy suited to responding to current events, so – although the entry and judging process naturally takes… Read More
Painting at Frieze London
20 October 2021 • Paul Carey-Kent
Painting is always the dominant medium in art fairs
Frieze Masters is back
14 October 2021 • Paul Carey-Kent
Enough of the crowding and superficiality of Frieze London’s opening day, this year I opted for the more measured pace… Read More
Review: The Factory Project
13 October 2021 • Paul Carey-Kent
If you are wondering whether to visit The Factory Project, you’ll want to know about the practicalities, and the quality… Read More
Sculpture Outside the Gallery
6 October 2021 • Paul Carey-Kent
There’s plenty of sculpture lying around outside in London now: not just the permanent stuff dotted about or combined into… Read More