Arts Review: “Bacon en Toutes Lettres” at the Pompidou Centre.
Francis Bacon’s paintings are a source of such anxiety because they flout all of the previously understood etiquette relating to …
Category Archives: Arts Review
Arts Review: Victoria Crowe, 50 Years of Painting.
With the Scottish artist Victoria Crowe, you can tour a lifetime of her paintings and emerge afterwards struggling to account …
Who is LURK?
On Christmas Island in the Indian Ocean there dwells a particular species of red crab that once a year emerges …
Life and Death and Elisabeth Frink.
Elisabeth Frink was a schoolgirl during the Second World War when she was evacuated out of London to the Devon …
YouTube Review: u m a m i.
u m a m i is the YouTube channel of the artist, animator and musician Justin Tomchuk, who is based …
Arts Review: V&A Dundee.
It is obvious from the get-go that the new Victoria and Albert Museum is here to rescue Dundee. It could …
Arts Review: the Knife Angel.
The countryside around the British Ironwork Centre is big and fair. There are immense blowsy trees that stand watching almost …
Arts Review: Rip It Up.
“Your music belongs in a museum” is not, I think, a compliment. Nonetheless, most of the exhibits in Rip It …
Arts Review: David Forster’s Edgelands.
“Is that…? No, it can’t be… Oh no, it definitely is!” It’s tippex! I should state immediately that I have …
A Closer Look at Mear One’s Mural.
“I sincerely regret that I did not look more closely at the image I was commenting on.” The Labour leader …
The Landscapes of Paul Nash.
An exhibition of Paul Nash’s paintings is wandering around the country. They were in London last year; now they are …
Arts Review: Beyond Caravaggio.
Before us is Tychy’s renowned oil painting, “Visitors to the Scottish National Gallery looking at Caravaggio’s ‘The Taking of Christ’.” …
Arts Review: Surreal Encounters.
I visited Surreal Encounters, the summertime show at the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, around a month ago. Afterwards …
Arts Review: David Forster’s “Passages.”
It is as if nature is officially announcing that winter is over. There is the gaiety of a blue sky …
Arts Review: The Amazing World of MC Escher.
My lack of patience with M.C. Escher is a thread which I can trace all the way back to a …
