Visual Arts Reviews
theartsdesk at Les Rencontres d'Arles: breadth and depth at the veteran photo festivalSaturday, 08 July 2017![]()
Now in its 48th year the veteran photography festival is in better shape than ever. You can walk through the French sunshine to more than 20 exhibitions, hear a talk, meet the snappers and shop on the fringe. Read more... |
The Exhibition Road Quarter review, V&A - an intelligent and much needed expansionMonday, 03 July 2017![]()
Oh those Victorians! Hail Prince Albert whose far-sighted ambition led to Albertopolis, embracing museums, galleries, universities and the Royal Albert Hall. Read more... |
Sargent, Dulwich Picture Gallery review - wonders in watercolourThursday, 29 June 2017![]()
This sparkling display of some four score watercolours from the first decade of the last century throw an unfamiliar light on the artistry of John Singer Sargent (1856-1925), the last great swagger portrait painter in the western tradition. Read more... |
Portraying a Nation, Tate Liverpool review – an inspired juxtapositionMonday, 26 June 2017![]()
Portraying a Nation juxtaposes photographs by August Sander with paintings by Otto Dix. It's an inspired idea as both artists wanted to hold up a mirror to German society during a time of extreme change. Read more... |
National Gallery of Ireland review - bigger and betterThursday, 22 June 2017![]()
The marvellous National Gallery of Ireland, founded in the 1860s, has opened its doors to its brilliantly revamped, updated and expanded galleries. As a spectacular bonus in its opening summer, Vermeer and Masters of Genre Painting reposes in the enfilade of the newly re-done permanent galleries for temporary exhibitions. Read more... |
Fahrelnissa Zeid, Tate Modern review - rediscovering a forgotten geniusFriday, 16 June 2017![]()
I can’t pretend to like the work of Fahrelnissa Zeid, but she was clearly an exceptional woman and deserves to be honoured with a retrospective. She led a privileged life that spanned most of the 20th century; born in Istanbul in 1901 into a prominent Ottoman family, many of whom were involved in the arts, she died in 1991. Read more... |
A Handful of Dust, Whitechapel Gallery review - grime does payWednesday, 14 June 2017![]()
Why is dust so fascinating yet, at the same time, so repellent? Maybe the fear of choking to death in a dust storm or being buried alive in fine sand provokes a visceral response to it. My current obsession with dust comes from having builders in my home over the last seven months. Read more... |
Michelangelo: Love and Death review - how to diminish a colossusTuesday, 13 June 2017![]()
As perhaps the greatest artist there has ever been – and as one of the most fascinating and complex personalities of his era – Michelangelo should be a thrilling subject for serious as well as dramatic cinematic documentary treatment. Read more... |
Grayson Perry: The Most Popular Art Exhibition Ever! Serpentine GalleryFriday, 09 June 2017![]()
The most popular exhibition of a living artist ever held at the Tate was David Hockney’s recent retrospective, which attracted 478,082 visitors. Read more... |
The Discovery of Mondrian review - the most comprehensive survey everMonday, 05 June 2017![]()
Standing inside the Gemeentemuseum’s life-size reconstruction of Mondrian’s Paris studio, the painter’s reputation as an austere recluse seems well-deserved. Read more... |
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