There’s an unofficial festival of photography in Kensington just now: Paul’s ART STUFF ON A TRAIN #145
6 January 2016 • Paul Carey-Kent
There’s an unofficial festival of photography in Kensington just now.
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Paul’s ART STUFF ON A TRAIN #142: ‘Computers at Christmas’
30 December 2015 • Paul Carey-Kent
Anglo-American Michael Craig-Martin, with his biliously cool outlined objects, and former East German dissident A R Penck, with his cipher stickmen, have two of the most instantly recognisable painting styles around. Both show to advantage currently.
Paul’s ART STUFF ON A TRAIN #141: ‘Material Advantages’
23 December 2015 • Paul Carey-Kent
Roberto Almagno: ‘Col guinzaglio tra le dita II’, 2015 – wood For all the contemporary centrality of concept and thought,… Read More
Paul’s ART STUFF ON A TRAIN #140: ‘Foregrounding the Background’
16 December 2015 • Paul Carey-Kent
How much explanation can art reasonably require?
‘Maastricht Beyond TEFAF’ Paul’s ART STUFF ON A TRAIN #139
9 December 2015 • Paul Carey-Kent
What art can you visit at Maastricht? home of The European Fine Art Fair TEFAF
Paul’s ART STUFF ON A TRAIN #138: ‘When to Visit Tate Modern?’
2 December 2015 • Paul Carey-Kent
The Empty Lot as at 28 November What’s the best time to go to Tate Modern? Yes, when it’s open,… Read More
Paul’s ART STUFF ON A TRAIN #137: ‘Certain Perversities’
25 November 2015 • Paul Carey-Kent
There’s a certain perversity to the first show at the new Sadie Coles space in Davies Street
Paul’s ART STUFF ON A TRAIN #136: ‘Soaring and Diving’
18 November 2015 • Paul Carey-Kent
Finding a new way in to your subject can make all the difference. After the war, Peter Lanyon (1918-64) emerged from constructivist roots to an engagement with Cornwall which sought to use abstract painting as a method to capture his bodily experience of the landscape – in his words, ‘I paint placeness’.
Paul’s ART STUFF on a train # 135: ‘The Monumental Intimate’
11 November 2015 • Paul Carey-Kent
But there’s also a room with five really big paintings – 10 feet high – of pots. The images somehow become more interesting for being on pots, even though they’re very flatly rendered, and the size gives the pots a grandeur which does something new.
Paul’s ART STUFF ON A TRAIN #134: ‘Solo, Group or Bugged?’
4 November 2015 • Paul Carey-Kent
Solo or group show? Maybe, to escape the norms, artists could appear in sequence, or collaborate, or respond to each other’s work across shows?
Paul’s ART STUFF on a train # 133: ‘Performance to the Exponential Max’
28 October 2015 • Paul Carey-Kent
The ongoing pro-performance trend in the art world has come to something of a peak in London…..
Paul’s ART STUFF on a train # 132: ‘Fair Ground for Snakes’
21 October 2015 • Paul Carey-Kent
There were several snakes at Frieze this year. I refer, of course, not to any underhand dealers, but to works of art.
Paul’s ART STUFF ON A TRAIN #131: ‘Noi Amiamo l’Italia’
15 October 2015 • Paul Carey-Kent
Fontana at Tornabuoni Is there no limit to London’s appetite for Italian art centred on the 1960’s? It’s all over… Read More
Paul’s ART STUFF ON A TRAIN #130: ‘Art in Warrington? I had no Ikea…’
7 October 2015 • Paul Carey-Kent
I was a little surprised to be invited to curate in what proved to be the third Warrington Contemporary Arts Festival..
Paul’s ART STUFF ON A TRAIN #129: ‘The Bad Pavilion Made Easy’
1 October 2015 • Paul Carey-Kent
The determinedly lower case herman de vries takes the plaudits for his display of different soil types at the Netherlands Pavilion
Paul’s ART STUFF on a train # 127: ‘Better Than the Real Thing’
16 September 2015 • Paul Carey-Kent
Why might you miss the best Barbara Hepworth room at Tate Britain?
Paul’s ART STUFF ON A TRAIN #126: ‘Farming Cornell ’
9 September 2015 • Paul Carey-Kent
Joseph Cornell: ‘Habitat Group for a Shooting Gallery’, 1943 You have a couple of weeks left to see far more… Read More
Paul’s ART STUFF ON A TRAIN #125: ‘The Upcurve Down in Kent’
2 September 2015 • Paul Carey-Kent
It’s easy to assume – after all, it’s pretty-much true – that London has the only significant commercial exhibitions of contemporary art in England. One exception, though, is ..
Paul’s ART STUFF on a train # 124: ‘Getting into Gear’
26 August 2015 • Paul Carey-Kent
A century after his birth in Edinburgh, both the Redfern Gallery in London (to 5th Sept) and the Towner Gallery in Eastbourne (to 27th Sept) are celebrating the perhaps under-appreciated art of William Gear (1915-97).
Paul’s ART STUFF on a train # 123: ‘Agnes Martin’s Paths Not Taken’
19 August 2015 • Paul Carey-Kent
Among the many things of wonder in the Tate Modern’s quietly intense Agnes Martin retrospective (to 11th October) are her oracular thoughts (‘The conscious mind is awareness of the sublime’) her eccentric ways of living (‘I don’t get up in the morning until I know exactly what I’m going to do. Sometimes, I stay in bed until about three in the afternoon, without any breakfast’) and her own clarity about the subject – emotional states – of work which looks abstract to most.
Paul’s ART STUFF on a train # 122: ‘Let’s Get Together’
12 August 2015 • Paul Carey-Kent
Anthony Reynolds’ has moved from having his own separate space to a strategy of sharing the space of other galleries.
Paul’s ART STUFF on a train # 121: ‘Sylvia, Chantal, Ishbel & Felicity’
5 August 2015 • Paul Carey-Kent
Two of the most striking ;paintings on display in London now are by women firmly seizing the traditional male territory of the female nude.
Paul’s ART STUFF on a train # 120: ‘Queen Alice’
29 July 2015 • Paul Carey-Kent
Franco-British artist Alice Anderson reigns into autumn with big solo shows in London and Paris.
Paul’s ART STUFF on a train # 119: ‘The Victorian Tendency’
22 July 2015 • Paul Carey-Kent
The art of the Victorian age is not itself much in fashion, but heading back to it as a source to twist does seem to be