Reviews
Paul Nash: The Elements, Dulwich Picture Gallery, London
Paul Nash, the celebrated war artist, could see conflict in everyday objects, even on the Sussex Downs
Inside Reviews
William Tillyer Season: Part One -The Prints, Bernard Jacobson Gallery, London (Rated 3/ 5 )
Thursday, 11 February 2010
Does the print-maker who gropes around down in the basement deserve to be the poor, neglected cousin of that esteemed society painter up in the light-filled, ground-floor studio space? In short, are prints always journeys on the road to somewhere more important? Not at all. Think of the great prints made by Goya and Rembrandt, for example. The best of these were in no way inferior to their paintings.
Gillian Ayres' sensational second flowering (Rated 4/ 5 )
Tuesday, 9 February 2010
New Paintings and Works on Paper, Alan Cristea Gallery, London
Van Doesburg & the International Avant-Garde, Tate Modern, London
Sunday, 7 February 2010
Well-chosen works show how De Stijl – 'The Style' – movement led to a revolution in European art that still resonates today
Shaped By War: Photographs by Don McCullin, Imperial War Museum North, Manchester
Sunday, 7 February 2010
A major retrospective of photographer Don McCullin records a career that was carved out of strife
Thresholds: works from the British Council collection chosen by Paula Rego, Whitechapel Gallery, London (Rated 3/ 5 )
Thursday, 4 February 2010
Many curators and museum makers have tried to make sense of the art of the 20th century, chopping it up into convenient units, herding artists who barely knew each other into groups, telling us that this belongs to that, spinning interminable yarns about this -ism and that -ism. Most of it is journalism.
William Eggleston 21st Century, Victoria Miro Gallery, London (Rated 4/ 5 )
Monday, 1 February 2010
Another kind of American beauty
Chris Ofili, Tate Britain, London
Afro Modern: Journeys Through the Black Atlantic, Tate Liverpool, Liverpool
Sunday, 31 January 2010
A Chris Ofili retrospective traces the artist’s journey from anger to serenity
Chris Ofili, Tate Britain, London (Rated 4/ 5 )
Wednesday, 27 January 2010
Dazzled by an intense beauty
Where Three Dreams Cross, Whitechapel Gallery, London
Sunday, 24 January 2010
A century and half of photographs from the subcontinent wrong-foots Kipling and the post-colonial blow-hards
Ryan Mosley, Alison Jacques Gallery, London (Rated 3/ 5 )
Thursday, 21 January 2010
Two years ago, this newspaper talent-spotted a young painter. Ryan Mosley, who is from Chesterfield, that small market town with a crooked spire at its heart, had recently graduated from the Royal College of Art. Now he is enjoying his first solo show at a major West End gallery. What's the fuss all about?
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FIVE BEST EXHIBITIONS
Paul Nash
(Dulwich Picture Gallery, London)
Pastoral, mystical, surreal, proto-hippy, he had the rarest imagination among British Modernists. The hills are alive, and the rocks are too.
(020 8693 5254) to 9 May
The Real Van Gogh: the Artist and His Letters
(Royal Academy, London)
Marking the new edition of the painter’s letters, this show that puts almost as much emphasis on Van Gogh’s writing as on his art.
(020 7300 8000) to 18 Apr
Inscription: Drawing, Making, Thinking
(Jerwood Space, London)
David Connearn, Philip Eglin and Charlotte Hodes demonstrate the possibilities of drawing.
(020 7654 0171) to 21 Feb
Dexter Dalwood
(Tate St Ives)
With freewheeling cartoon styles and plastic colour, this British painter reconstructs history.
(01736 796226) to 3 May
Objects of Contemplation
(Henry Moore Institute, Leeds)
Small, fascinating show of Chinese “scholar’s rocks”: found stones in exquisitely carved bases.
(0113 246 7467) to 7 Mar