Paul’s Gallery of the Week: Sadie Coles HQ
2 August 2023 • Paul Carey-Kent
Ask London artists who they would most like to show with, and the answer is often ‘Sadie Coles’
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Paul’s Gallery of the Week: Lehmann Maupin
26 July 2023 • Paul Carey-Kent
Lehmann Maupin, though, has had a permanent presence since October 2020, when Cromwell Place became the London location of the gallery founded by Rachel Lehmann and David Maupin in New York in 1996
Paul’s Gallery of the Week: Ben Brown Fine Arts
19 July 2023 • Paul Carey-Kent
Ben Brown’s background was in the secondary market – he spent ten years at Sotheby’s, taking a particular and ongoing interest in Italian art – before he opened his eponymous gallery in London in 2004
Paul’s Gallery of the Week: Purdy Hicks
12 July 2023 • Paul Carey-Kent
The gallery was established in East London in 1995, and for much of this century was on Hopton Street, conveniently close to Tate Modern.
Paul’s Gallery of the Week: The Mayor Gallery
5 July 2023 • Paul Carey-Kent
Tracking back, The Mayor Gallery was actually the first to open on the street, when founded by Fred Mayor (1903-73) in 1925.
Paul’s Gallery of the Week: Skarstedt
31 May 2023 • Paul Carey-Kent
Skarstedt originated in New York and now operates in Paris and London as well. It was founded in 1994 by Swedish-born Per Skarstedt
Paul’s Gallery of the Week: Aleph Contemporary
24 May 2023 • Paul Carey-Kent
In something of a contrast to last week’s David Zwirner, Aleph – founded in 2019 – has the simplest of gallery models:
Paul’s Gallery of the Week: David Zwirner
17 May 2023 • Paul Carey-Kent
It’s hardly a surprise that there are good things to see at David Zwirner, generally considered to be one of the four biggest ‘mega-galleries’ in the world
Paul’s Gallery of the Week: Castor
10 May 2023 • Paul Carey-Kent
When I first met Andy Wicks, he was an artist (and I liked his work). But his role arranging artist-run pop-ups led him to morph towards gallerist, and Castor Projects was born in 2016.
Paul’s Gallery of the Week: VITRINE
26 April 2023 • Paul Carey-Kent
VITRINE, following the opening of a new Fitzrovia space in May 2022 and last month’s relaunch of its original Bermondsey space – a shopfront-style space – might now be seen as a mega-gallery
Paul’s Gallery of the Week: Piano Nobile
19 April 2023 • Paul Carey-Kent
Jean Cooke: ‘Beach, Birling Gap’ 1975 Piano Nobile, 96/129 Portland Road, London, W11 4LW www.piano-nobile.com Instagram @pianonobilegallery Piano Nobile was… Read More
Paul’s Gallery of the Week: Pippy Houldsworth Gallery
13 April 2023 • Paul Carey-Kent
I’ve been around long enough to remember when Pippy Houldsworth opened on Cork Street in 1999, moving west for a while before settling in Heddon Street from 2011.
Paul’s Gallery of the Week: Thaddaeus Ropac
5 April 2023 • Paul Carey-Kent
That tricky spelling is the Latinate version of the gallerist’s first name: he was born in 1960 as Thaddäus within a family of Carinthian Slovenes in southern Austria. He interned with Joseph Beuys, opened his first gallery in 1981, and now leads a global brand
Paul’s Gallery of the Week: Somers Gallery
29 March 2023 • Paul Carey-Kent
Somers Gallery, handily placed between Euston and Kings Cross, is an unusual space which should be better known. It’s run by a Mexican, Javier Calderon, who also owns Flori Canto,
Paul’s Gallery of the Week: Luxembourg + Co.
22 March 2023 • Paul Carey-Kent
London / New York gallery Luxembourg + Co. emerged in 2020 out of Luxembourg & Dayan, founded in 2009 by Daniella Luxembourg and Amalia Dayan
Paul’s Gallery of the Week: Tate Britain
15 March 2023 • Paul Carey-Kent
Tate Britain opened as the National Gallery of British Art on the site of the former Millbank Prison in 1897, but soon became commonly known as the Tate Gallery, after its founder Sir Henry Tate.
Paul’s Gallery of the Week: Handel Street Projects
8 March 2023 • Paul Carey-Kent
Montenegrin gallerist and curator Fedja Klikovac, who arrived in Britain in 1992, currently shows mainly from his home in Islington – though there are plans to change that.
Paul’s Gallery of the Week: Frith Street Gallery
1 March 2023 • Paul Carey-Kent
Frith Street Gallery was founded in 1989 by Jane Hamlyn – daughter of the famous publisher Paul Hamlyn – originally in a Georgian townhouse at 60 Frith Street, just off Soho Square.
Paul’s Gallery of the Week: The Barbican Centre
22 February 2023 • Paul Carey-Kent
The Barbican’s galleries lie within a labyrinthine concrete complex, part of an estate that also includes 2,000 flats, innumerable walkways, three restaurants, a public library and an impressively planted conservatory as well as an arts centre known for theatre, film, music and dance as much as visual art.
Paul’s Gallery of the Week: Sid Motion Gallery
15 February 2023 • Paul Carey-Kent
Sid Motion comes from an artistic background – her father is Andrew Motion, poet laureate 1999-2009; her mother Jan Dalley, arts editor of the Financial Times –
Paul’s Gallery of the Week: Niru Ratnam
8 February 2023 • Paul Carey-Kent
Niru Ratnam (don’t call him Ratman, a common error!) has popped up across the years in various galleries I’ve visited – I recall him at Aicon, Frith Street and Koenig as well as running fairs.
Paul’s Gallery of the Week: The Estorick Collection
1 February 2023 • Paul Carey-Kent
This year marks the 25th anniversary of the Estorick Collection, which occupies a distinctive niche as Britain’s only museum devoted to modern Italian art.
Paul’s Gallery of the Week: Belmacz
18 January 2023 • Paul Carey-Kent
Julia Muggenburg founded Belmacz – close to Bond Street underground station – in 2000 as a means of hosting a critically engaged exhibition program alongside her sculptural jewels and objects.
Paul’s Gallery of the Week: Bernard Jacobson Gallery
11 January 2023 • Paul Carey-Kent
Bernard Jacobson started his career in London in the 1960s as a journalist, leading him to befriend many artists, and set up his own gallery in 1969.