Should We See Peter Hujar’s Contact Sheets?
Though not made for public consumption, the darkroom work prints reveal his portraits as excerpts of a conversation, rather than memories snatched from the ether.
A sublime double-hit | Rachel Whiteread et al, at Goodwood Art Foundation
A field in West Sussex, bordered by ancient woodland, lies fallow… but for a curious jaggedy monument. Imagine if MC Escher had redesigned a Mesopotamian ziggurat, and you’re halfway there.
Drawn to the dark side | Edward Burra at Tate Britain
In the summer of 1933 the 28-year-old painter Edward Burra, living with his parents in the village of Playden, near Rye in East Sussex, wandered out of the house, seemingly…
Painters painting painters
Pallant House Gallery’s excellent new exhibition Seeing Each Other: Portraits of Artists, features British artists’ depictions of other British artists over the last 125 years. It’s a great concept: artist…
Great female artists
It’s time to give contemporary women artists a fair crack of the whip.
Threads of Change
Textile art is as old as the hills, but retains its vitality in the digital age.
A brave new world, revisited | Electric Dreams at Tate Modern
Tate Modern’s engaging new show Electric Dreams examines how groups of innovative artists used science and technology in their practice between the end of WW2 and the advent of the…
British Art Fair | By Gay Hutson
British Art Fair Co-Founder and Director, Gay Hutson, shares her memories of 40 years running art fairs.
Ghosts in the walls | John Monks at Long & Ryle
Has Long and Ryle got bigger? No, the Pimlico gallery hasn’t had an extension: they are currently showing the latest exhibition of the painter John Monks, a modern master of…
Straddling form and function | The increasing collectability of ceramic art
‘Potty for it!’ gushed an Elle Magazine headline in October 2022, describing ‘the new wave of ceramics that have reached cult status’. And the jaunty pot puns didn’t stop there:…