Reviews

On April 20th, 2023

Review: Berthe Morisot: Shaping Impressionism, Dulwich Picture Gallery, until 10 September

Berthe Morisot: Shaping Impressionism, is a sensational display of dynamic brushwork, impasto surfaces, pastel colours, soft, sun-clad interiors, pensive expressions and intimate depictions of Morisot...

On April 18th, 2023

Review: Plants of the Qur’ān and All the Flowers Are for Me-2 ground-breaking new exhibitions at Kew Gardens, now on until 17 Sept

The Shirley Sherwood Gallery of Botanical Art is a gallery that has been open since 2008 at Kew Gardens and is the world’s first display dedicated to solely Botanical Art. The gallery is currently s...

On April 18th, 2023

Review: Christine Sun Kim: Edges of Sign Language- ‘Canvases as multifaceted explorations’- Somerset House, until 21 May

The current exhibition at Somerset House, ‘Christine Sun Kim: Edges of Sign Language’, displays how Christine’s contemporary practice interrogates the roles of space, sound, language and shape i...

On April 17th, 2023

Review: RESOLVE Collective: them’s the breaks-Barbican Curve Gallery, until 16 July

This Spring sees RESOLVE Collective take over Barbican Curve Gallery with their unconventional exhibition, them’s the breaks.  The exhibition is built on-site, with one side staging sculptures form...

On April 12th, 2023

Review: Akram Khan’s Jungle Book reimagined-Sadler’s Wells until 15 April

Disney’s Jungle Book of my childhood: jovial, comic and full of dancing bears eating prickly pears, remains unrecognisable in Akram Khan’s dark re-telling of Rudyard Kipling’s tale. The focus is...

On March 28th, 2023

Review: Kim Noble: Lullaby for Scavengers – ‘the bitter comes before the sweet’ – Soho Theatre, until 8 April

Kim Noble’s Lullaby for Scavengers reminds me a lot of Lucretius, an ancient Roman philosopher and poet. He compared his poetry to medicine: when a child is sick, we give them a cup of harsh tasting...

On March 24th, 2023

Review: The Ugly Duchess: Beauty and Satire in the Renaissance- The National Gallery, until 11 June

In Room 46 on the second floor of the National Gallery, this tucked-in pocket within the vast treasures and picture-scapes of the Gallery hosts a changing season of exhibitions. These of which submit ...

On March 22nd, 2023

Review: Gogosian-Rites of Passage-‘Passages as natural flux’-Britannia Street, London, until 29 April

Gagosian London Presents Group Exhibition of Work by Contemporary Artists with a Shared History of Migration   Curated by the British-Nigerian writer and curator, Péjú Oshin, 19 contemporary ar...

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