28 December 2016 • Paul Carey-Kent
Ah no, not the gap between train and platform, or between supposed rail service and practical reality over Christmas. The gap between art and design can be hard to pin down.
20 December 2016 • Paul Carey-Kent
My two worlds – art and health finance – rarely cross, so it was doubly interesting to be shown around some of the art commissioned by www.vitalarts.org.uk
14 December 2016 • Paul Carey-Kent
Most evenings the London art scene can yield plenty of variety, but a recent Thursday provided a particularly enjoyable set of contrasts, so much so that I ran late…
7 December 2016 • Paul Carey-Kent
Art stuff for Christmas
30 November 2016 • Paul Carey-Kent
Whilst provenance is an important factor in establishing the genuineness of work for valuation purposes, it isn’t normally a big factor in exhibitions.
23 November 2016 • Paul Carey-Kent
The Turner Prize judges have a tough task this year (announcement 5th Dec).
16 November 2016 • Paul Carey-Kent
Perhaps things will change post-Brexit, but there’s a healthy internationalism in the London art scene at present. Franco-Italian Juliette Mahieux Bartoli says her paintings (‘Pax Romana’, shown by Norwegian gallerist Kristin Hjellegjerde in Wandsworth to 21 Dec) reflect the impossibility of cultural singularity in our hybridised world
9 November 2016 • Paul Carey-Kent
It shows the richness of London’s gallery scene that you can – as always, it seems – see easy as you like an impressive selection of late 20th century Italian art (at Cortesi, Thomas Dane, Luxembourg & Dayan, Mazzoleni, M&L, Partners & Mucciaccia, Robilant + Voena and Tornabuoni) and also, during this ‘Asian Art Week’, a wide-ranging survey of a different market sector.
2 November 2016 • Paul Carey-Kent
Enough of exhibition reviews, I’ll look at just the one work this week *. LA artist Robert Therrien.
26 October 2016 • Paul Carey-Kent
Not every interesting show is at a ‘hot’ gallery. The current shows at Waterhouse & Dodd, better known for their secondary market activity, and Long & Ryle, who have a somewhat conservative roster, are cases in point.
19 October 2016 • Paul Carey-Kent
You have to stay alert to find the galleries at this time of year: several reopened in new premises ahead of Frieze.
12 October 2016 • Paul Carey-Kent
Proof, perhaps, that that being an artist isn’t a proper job is that you don’t normally get to retire.
5 October 2016 • Paul Carey-Kent
Maybe the answer would be the multiple self – think how many Rachel Macleans there are in her films, that would be handy.
28 September 2016 • Paul Carey-Kent
All 2,537 entries were gathered for physical inspection of the original in a two day binge, no pre-sifting, no jpegs.
21 September 2016 • Paul Carey-Kent
Corvi-Mora and Greengrassi are unusual – possibly even unique – in sharing a building and swapping, from show to show. between its large lower and smaller upper spaces.
14 September 2016 • Paul Carey-Kent
Are you a namist? I only ask because I’m pretty sure I can be. Dash Snow, Zipora Fried, Jack Strange – I immediately want to know what lies behind such names. David Smith, Sarah Jones, Ralph Brown – the urge, quite unfairly, diminishes.
7 September 2016 • Paul Carey-Kent
How do you recognise the radical? Maybe it should be something new which leaves you wondering whether it has any merit at all.
31 August 2016 • Paul Carey-Kent
There’s been more attention paid of late to pioneering feminist artists: Mary Kelly, Carolee Schneeman, Lynn Hershman Leeson and Maria Lassnig, for example, all receive far more attention now than they did a decade back. Going back further, Claude Cahun (1894 – 1954) has been increasingly prominent.
24 August 2016 • Paul Carey-Kent
You can rely on Artangel for unusual large scale projects which are persuasively site-related.
10 August 2016 • Paul Carey-Kent
In fact, I can’t think of the equivalent heterosexual male practitioner – is that just too tricky a position to take, too likely to descend into cliché?
10 August 2016 • Paul Carey-Kent
I’m happy to accept the Royal Academy Summer Show (to 16th Aug – hurry along!) for what it is
3 August 2016 • Paul Carey-Kent
Two interesting shows are not so much a case of the cliché-critique ‘my child could have done that!’ as the parental pride of ‘my child did that!
20 July 2016 • Paul Carey-Kent
Enigmatic Swiss artist Not Vital has a major showing at Yorkshire Sculpture Park (to Jan 2017) and an attractively focussed one at Ordovas
13 July 2016 • Paul Carey-Kent
‘Masterpiece’ (which ran 30th June – 7th July this year) presents a broader mixture than the typical fair.
