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Guo-Liang Tan OTA FINE ARTS At first glance, one noticed a directness to the group of eight abstract paintings in Guo-Liang Tan's first show in Japan, "In Mid Shapes." The [...]

The article reviews the exhibition "Painting, Its Reasons to Be" featuring works of Au Hoi Lam, held at Hanart TZ Gallery and showcases a series of paintings from 2003 to 2024 that explore the concept of time, labor, and numbers through grids, patterns.

The article reviews Teo Eng Seng's art exhibition at the National Gallery Singapore, including his evolution from figurative oil painting to abstract sculpture and his art's responsiveness to global events and cultural influences.

The article reviews the exhibition "The Joy of Being" featuring works of Wang Dongling, held at Ipreciation until 2024, showcasing his calligraphy that blends traditional Chinese writing with abstraction and modern techniques, exploring the dynamic energy and performative nature of his practice.

The article reviews the exhibition "Cages" by Tetsumi Kudo held at Hauser & Wirth in Hong Kong, China.

Fernanda Laguna is an inspirational figure to many in Buenos Aires, where she was born in 1972. Though she is an artist, curator, activist, poet, and writer, her direct influence [...]

The article reviews the exhibition "Untitled Paintings" by Jeremy Sharma held at Haridas Contemporary in Singapore.

This refreshing first solo exhibition in London of the work of the American painter Leon Polk Smith, who died in 1996 at the age of ninety, not only afforded British [...]

Tony Cragg YORKSHIRE SCULPTURE PARK Peter Murray, the Yorkshire Sculpture Park's director and the curator of 'A Rare Category of Objects,' described the show as a survey rather than a [...]

Michael Krebber KUNSTHALLE BERN Just as any exhibition held every two years can be called a biennial, a piece of fabric hung on a wall, with or without paint on [...]

Imagine Kandinsky as a feminist performance artist channeling Beuys while painting, and you might get a sense of Lucy Dodd's sensibility. Her first London show, 'Miss Mars,' was inspired, she [...]

Caitlin KeoghTHE APPROACHThe charm of the six large paintings in 'Alphabets and Daggers,' the first London solo show by the New York-based artist Caitlin Keogh, lay in their enigmatic nature. [...]

The now-septuagenarian Hungarian painter Imre Bak describes 1968 as a pivotal moment. A visit to Documenta 4 showed him the radical changes taking place across the Atlantic. That, together with [...]

Bjarne Melgaard's recent exhibition had two parts, each separately titled. 'Bodyparty (Substance Paintings)' consisted of fourteen works populated mostly by bulging-eyed, penis-faced figures with multiple protuberances; 'Life Killed My Chihuahua,' [...]

This two-part exhibition took place in both of Thomas Dane Gallery's spaces: In one presentation, titled 'Colour on Fire,' Phillip King showed two new polychrome sculptures; in the other, titled [...]

Channa Horwitz RAVEN ROW Channa Horwitz was, notoriously, the only woman selected for Maurice Tuchman's landmark Art and Technology project (1967-71) and, worse still, was the only selected artist not [...]

Maria Taniguchi IBID. GALLERY Known for a diverse practice that includes video, sculpture, and printmaking, since 2008 Maria Taniguchi has also been making black paintings that schematically depict a wall [...]

The article reviews the art exhibition titled "MODERN ART" by Michael Simpson.

Ella Kruglyanskaya THOMAS DANE GALLERY Ella Kruglyanskaya wants to be a great painter, so she says, not 'a good woman artist.' Although her paintings are largely populated by women and [...]

Ann Craven's third solo exhibition in London was also the first devoted entirely to her palette paintings. As the name of the show, 'Untitled (Palettes: Naked, Tagged), 2013-14,' implied, the [...]

Anna Betbeze LUXEMBOURG & DAYAN The nine works that were displayed in Anna Betbeze's exhibition 'Plush Vision' are both absurd and compelling. Created from flokati rugs--a type of woolen shag [...]

LONDON Bill Lynch THE APPROACH This selection of nine mostly undated paintings plus one large book of paintings on paper was only the second one-person exhibition of Bill Lynch, who [...]

Martha Jungwirth's first exhibition in the United Kingdom coincided with a period of broader international rediscovery. The Viennese septuagenarian was the only woman in the loosely gathered, short-lived Wirklichkeiten (Realities) [...]

'Calligram' was Bernard Piffaretti's first solo show in London. With nine paintings dating between 1988 and 2017, it also provided a tiny snapshot of his range and approach. Born in [...]

'The Temperature of Sculpture' was an ambitious first survey of Jiro Takamatsu (1936-1998) outside his home country of Japan, significant not only because Takamatsu is a seminal postwar avant-gardist, but [...]

TATE BRITAIN Over the past decade, Phyllida Barlow has deservedly moved from being a cult artist to exhibiting on the international circuit. This year saw a triple bill from the [...]

Countering the trend for big exhibitions to be as global as possible, the Fourth Singapore Biennale took the unusual step of restricting its curatorial reach to Southeast Asia, with a [...]

Jeremy Moon PEER/LARGE GLASS This two-part exhibition of works by Jeremy Moon, curated by the young, Glasgow-based artist Neil Clements, consisted of working sketches, studies, and archival material at Large [...]

LONDON Raoul De Keyser DAVID ZWIRNER Although this exhibition, 'Raoul De Keyser: Drift,' curated by Ulrich Loock, included forty-eight paintings spanning four decades, at its heart were the artist's final [...]

UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER, WHITWORTH ART GALLERY On the construction site of the Whitworth's new wing to be devoted to landscape art, Nikhil Chopra performed Coal on Cotton, 2013, as part [...]

ARNOLFINI/CAMPOLI PRESTI 'Seasons and Sacraments,' Jutta Koether's first large-scale show in the UK, presented at the Arnolfini, brought together three groups of work inspired by Nicolas Poussin: Embrace, 2012, a [...]

MK GALLERY Visitors were introduced to Hariton Pushwagner's exhibition 'Soft City' by an enormous, open mouth, with graphic pink lips and protruding scarlet tongue, painted around the gallery's entrance. But [...]

Although Markus Karstieβ plays within the language and possibilities of his chosen medium--clay--the resulting artworks are far from what we typically expect of the material. The works are handmade, with [...]

MATT'S GALLERY Simply described, Richard Grayson's The Magpie Index, 2010, the sole work in this show, is a portrait of the singer-songwriter Roy Harper. Perhaps best known for his work [...]

Chris Martin is that rare thing: a spiritual painter. In an interview for the catalogue to his exhibition 'Staring into the Sun,' curated by Elodie Evers and Gregor Jansen, he [...]

Apart from being a noted educator, curator, and writer, Jon Thompson has also been an amateur Gouldologist: His latest paintings, like those in his previous exhibition at Anthony Reynolds Gallery [...]

GATESHEAD, UK B. Wurtz BALTIC CENTRE FOR CONTEMPORARY ART KNOW THYSELF, reads a 1992 B. Wurtz assemblage, Untitled (sock piece #7). The Delphic maxim is scrawled on a piece of [...]

Mark Flood MODERN ART In certain societies, cannibals ate their opponents to acquire knowledge. Maybe that's why one of Mark Flood's more notorious paintings is emblazoned with the phrase eat [...]

Ellen Gronemeyer GREENGRASSI 'Keine Minute Rube' (Not a Moment's Rest) was the title of Ellen Gronemeyer's recent solo exhibition, and it served as an apt description of any encounter with [...]

Patricia Treib KATE MACGARRY At first glance, the ease with which the eye travels through one of Patricia Treib's paintings belies the complexity she brings to the canvas. The seven [...]

Although the title of Ian Woo's most recent exhibition was 'Falling Off Plastic Chairs,' the sensation created by its five large paintings and seven works on paper was more of [...]

Nick Mauss CAMPOU PRESTI Nick Mauss's work embodies drawing--which may come as a surprise, considering that, at first glance, his latest exhibition consisted of six cut powdered-coated-steel sculptures, four plaster [...]

Shinro Ohtake PARASOL UNIT Visitors to the 2013 Venice Biennale will remember Shinro Ohtake's numerous scrapbooks in the lower level of the Central Pavilion. Displayed in glass cases, these open [...]