American Artist Robert Ryman’s Work Featured in Major Barbican Exhibition Robert Ryman, The Real Thing, the Barbican’s comprehensive retrospective of the American artist’s work, immediately faces the viewer with a conundrum. A former musician, Robert Ryman (1930-2019), believed that both music and painting were best understood through direct and immediate experience, rather than through intellectual […]
Supporters’ House London
A private members’ space at The National Gallery Entering a large black door in London, I experienced a world new to me. It was not No. 10, but Supporters’ House on Trafalgar Square. Located alongside the National Gallery, this is the portal known to members, who can relax here away from the bustle of the […]
Anish Kapoor – Hayward Gallery
A triumphant return Superlatives sometimes feel hyperbolic, but in the case of the recently opened Anish Kapoor exhibition at the Hayward Gallery, words like superb and stunning seem appropriate. Kapoor is one of only a few artists who have had a second exhibition at the Hayward Gallery. In1998, the Hayward was the first public gallery […]
Konrad Mägi – Dulwich Picture Gallery
Step into a world of bold colour to discover the greatest Nordic modernist painter you’ve never heard of Think about Modernist painters and I’ll bet the usual suspects come to mind: Picasso, Matisse, Dali, Munch, Seurat. But one name that probably does not leap to mind is Estonian artist Konrad Mägi, despite being a contemporary […]
Britain’s Bayeux Tapestry – Reading
1066 and all that – Elizabeth Wardle’s Arts and Crafts Bayeux Tapestry. What must it have been like for the women of Canterbury who embroidered the authentic Bayeux Tapestry? Imagine your country has just been conquered, and you have to spend the next few months making a celebratory embroidery for the enemy. The 70-metre embroidery […]
Ramses and the Pharaohs’ Gold – NEON at Battersea Power Station
A visit to Ancient Egypt through 180 objects Visitors to London have a unique opportunity to see an exhibition of ancient Egyptian artefacts gathered from museums and sites across Egypt. On loan from Egypt’s Supreme Council of Antiquities, 180 priceless artefacts, many of which have never left Egypt, are on display in a beautifully curated […]
Patrizio di Massimo, Between Us
New Work by the London-based Italian Artist The history of art is the history of a continuum regularly shattered by revolutionary innovation, which in turn soon becomes absorbed into the continuum, and so it goes throughout the centuries. This process is evident in the new exhibition of works by the London-based Italian painter Patrizio di […]
Beatriz González – Barbican Art Gallery
‘Art says things that history cannot’ explains González Beatriz González, who passed away in January 2026, sadly did not live to see the opening of her first retrospective show in the UK. She had, however, previously walked around the rooms of the Barbican art gallery, discussing the layout of the show, and asked whether the […]
Chiharu Shiota and Yin Xiuzhen-Hayward Gallery
Threads of Life meets Heart to Heart in double bill show There are many galleries and museums showing women artists this year, with the Hayward Gallery opening with a double bill. Chiharu Shiota and Yin Xiuzhen share an interest in memories and produce sculptural pieces that are adventurous and experimental. Their works invite viewers to engage […]
Seurat and the Sea – Courtauld Gallery
This historic exhibition provides an engrossing display of Seurat’s singular approach and talent Seurat and the Sea: Exhibitions of Georges Seurat’s (1859 – 1891) work are few and far between. Having died at the young age of 31, Seurat left a small number of works and those who have them guard them jealously. So it’s […]