21 August 2019 • Paul Carey-Kent
If you haven’t been to the Saatchi Gallery lately, the current shows might surprise you. Free presentations of Saatchi’s own acquisitions, typically foregrounding big paintings, are absent. The two main shows are pay-to-enter affairs
7 July 2019 • Tabish Khan
A scream, denim landscapes, spiritual art, feathered entities, alone in an office and chunks of wood.
20 June 2019 • Mark Westall
Chinese artist and entrepreneur, Mao Jianhua, will present a new series of 48 works on specially commissioned handmade paper at Saatchi Gallery, London from 27th June – 7th July.
28 April 2019 • Tabish Khan
The Top 7 Art Exhibitions to see in London this week include War, Beethoven, photography, a walk in kaleidoscope, planes and poverty.
31 January 2019 • Irene Machetti
Last chance to catch Saatchi’s current show Full Circle: The Beauty of Inevitability, featuring works which blend art and science by the acclaimed Russian artist GeorgII Uvs.
7 December 2018 • Mark Westall
his December Philip Colbert’s exhibition ‘Hunt Paintings’, at Saatchi Gallery will be the London-based pop artist’s largest solo exhibition to date, featuring twenty-five works.
12 November 2018 • Tabish Khan
This weeks Top 7 art exhibitions include: A colourful maze, infinity mirrors, migration, cityscapes, womanhood, makeup and detritus.
3 June 2018 • Tabish Khan
Ships, UFOs, Windrush, pollution, sex slavery, Londoners and data.
21 May 2018 • Tabish Khan
Terrorism, anxiety, steel, colour, pumpkins and shadows.
4 May 2018 • Mark Westall
Charlotte Amelia Poe is the winner of the inaugural Spectrum Art Prize, presented at the Saatchi Gallery, London. Charlotte will receive a £10,000 prize to fund her artistic development.The Spectrum Art Prize is a new national award created to celebrate. the excellence of artists on the autistic spectrum.
7 March 2018 • Paul Carey-Kent
What’s the gallery life of performance art? For years, said Marvin Gaye Chetwynd at the opening of the suitably fluid-sounding ‘Ze & Per’ at Sadie Coles, she was restricted to the opening night of shows and not even included on the official list of participants. Now she, and performance generally, are more fully acknowledged, but it’s still hard to present the after-action successfully.
17 December 2017 • Tabish Khan
For art at Christmas and New Year look no further than art critic Tabish Khan’s Top 7 Art Exhibitions to see in London.
10 December 2017 • Tabish Khan
Art critic Tabish Khan brings you the top art exhibitions to visit this week. Each one comes with a concise review to help you decide whether it’s for you.
1 November 2017 • Paul Carey-Kent
It would be hard to conjure a bigger contrast than that between the Saatchi Gallery’s majestic four levels and FOLD’s modest basement space.
13 August 2017 • Tabish Khan
Matadors, decaying ceramics, calligraphy, razor wire, a house on fire, a marble mattress and over 1000 works of art.
4 June 2017 • Tabish Khan
Surreal photography, two doses of virtual reality, sprawling architecture, Libya, Israel / Palestine and a photography prize.
21 May 2017 • Tabish Khan
Not 5 but 9 exhibitions to catch this week
15 February 2017 • Paul Carey-Kent
It’s all about David Salle
23 January 2017 • Mark Westall
From Selfie to Self-Expression will showcase key artworks, many of which feature interactive, digital and user-generated content, by artists as diverse as Kutlu? Ataman, Christopher Baker, Juno Calypso, Tracey Emin, Van Gogh, Mohau Modisakeng, Rembrandt, Cindy Sherman, Gavin Turk and Velazquez.
15 January 2017 • Tabish Khan
Animal furniture, a derelict house, cork totems, mystical prints and a giant baby walker.
1 November 2016 • Mark Westall
This month Saatchi Gallery presents its new exhibition : PAINTERS’ PAINTERS: Nine present-day painters ranging from their 30s to their 60s.
27 January 2016 • Paul Carey-Kent
How many women have to be in a women-only show for it to look like a statement rather than a show which happens to feature female artists?
6 December 2015 • Tabish Khan
Animated busts, a lost river, rubber production, The feminist library plus images of hard hitting new stories from across the world.
11 September 2015 • daniel barnes
Art fairs have become ubiquitous in the landscape of the art market. Once you’ve seen one fair, you’ve seen them all: row upon makeshift row of booths desperate to stand out, populated by art that stirs a faint sense of déjà vu and expectant gallerists wielding bottles of champagne. And there’s always a throng of revellers who are there to be seen and those of us waving our press passes as if we matter to the whole circus. But START is different.
