• Instagram
  • Mail
  • LinkedIn

Nigel Ip

  • Reviews and Highlights
    • Reviews
      • 2025
      • 2024
      • 2023
      • 2022
      • 2021
      • 2020
      • 2019
      • 2018
      • 2017
      • 2016
      • 2015
      • 2014
      • 2013
    • Art Market
    • Works in Focus
    • Music
    • Film and TV
    • Books
    • Travel
      • 2 Weeks in Paris
  • Artist In Focus
  • Projects
    • Tudors to Windsors
    • Ship Portraits Cataloguing Project
    • Exemplars of Craftsmanship
    • Beautifully Obscene
  • Guest Writing
  • Services
  • About Me
    • Testimonials
    • #WhyArtHistoryMatters

Blog Archive

  • ARTIST IN FOCUS | Farnaz Faridfar
  • ARTIST IN FOCUS | Maureen Uzoh
  • ARTIST IN FOCUS | Sezin Aksoy
  • HIGHLIGHTS | Woolwich Contemporary Print Fair 2025 – Woolwich Works, London
  • HIGHLIGHTS | LAPADA London 2025 – Berkeley Square, London
  • HIGHLIGHTS | FOCUS Art Fair London 2025 – Saatchi Gallery, London
  • HIGHLIGHTS | Echo Soho – Artists House, London
  • REVIEW | Elmgreen & Dragset – Prada Mode London
  • HIGHLIGHTS | Frieze London 2025 – Regent’s Park, London
  • HIGHLIGHTS | Frieze Masters 2025 – Regent’s Park, London
  • HIGHLIGHTS | Frieze Sculpture 2025 – Regent’s Park, London
  • REVIEW | Soft Exchanges: Drea Cofield – Soho Revue, London
  • REVIEW | Soundscape by Elizabeth Langfeld – Sambourne House, London
  • HIGHLIGHTS | The Decorative Fair, Autumn 2025 – Battersea Park, London
  • HIGHLIGHTS | Art on a Postcard Winter Auction – The Bomb Factory Marylebone, London
  • HIGHLIGHTS | British Art Fair 2025 – Saatchi Gallery, London
  • WORKS IN FOCUS | Lucian Freud’s Draughtsmanship and Etching – National Portrait Gallery, London
  • REVIEW | David Bowie Centre – V&A East Storehouse, London
  • REVIEW | Abstract Erotic: Louise Bourgeois, Eva Hesse, Alice Adams – Courtauld Gallery, London
  • REVIEW | Vagina Museum – Bethnal Green, London
  • REVIEW | Making Egypt – Young V&A, London
  • REVIEW | To Heaven-gate Ascend – Hypha Gallery Marble Arch, London
  • REVIEW | Pictograms: Iconic Japanese Designs – Japan House London
  • REVIEW | Lucy Sparrow presents The Bourdon Street Chippy – Lyndsey Ingram Gallery, London
  • REVIEW | Hiroshige: Artist of the Open Road – British Museum, London
  • REVIEW | Emily Kam Kngwarray – Tate Modern, London
  • REVIEW | Ed Sheeran: Cosmic Carpark Paintings – HENI Gallery, London
  • REVIEW | Once Upon a Time in London – Saatchi Yates, London
  • REVIEW | The Power of Drawing: Marking 25 Years of the Royal Drawing School – Royal Drawing School, London
  • REVIEW | Tracing Time – Trois Crayons, No. 9 Cork Street, London
  • REVIEW | How To Train Your Dragon (2025)
  • REVIEW | Summer Exhibition 2025 – Royal Academy of Arts, London
  • REVIEW | The Carracci Cartoons: Myths in the Making – National Gallery, London
  • REVIEW | Leonardo Drew: Ubiquity II – South London Gallery
  • REVIEW | The Weight of Lightness – Bluerider ART London
  • REVIEW | V&A East Storehouse, London
  • REVIEW | Artemisia, Héroïne de l’Art – Musée Jacquemart-Andre, Paris
  • ARTIST IN FOCUS | Brooke Leigh
  • REVIEW | Astonishing Things: The Drawings of Victor Hugo – Royal Academy of Arts, London
  • REVIEW | Beyond the Prize: Celebrating Contemporary Figurative Art – Mall Galleries, London
  • REVIEW | George Hainsworth: A Retrospective – Dean Clough, Halifax
  • REVIEW | Tirzah Garwood: Beyond Ravilious – Dulwich Picture Gallery, London
  • HIGHLIGHTS | Salon du Dessin 2025 – Palais Brongniart, Paris
  • HIGHLIGHTS | Paris Print Fair 2025 – Réfectoire du Couvent des Cordeliers, Paris
  • HIGHLIGHTS | London Original Print Fair 2025 – Somerset House, London
  • REVIEW | Picasso: Printmaker – British Museum, London
  • REVIEW | The Future is Today: Prints and the University of Warwick, 1965 to now – Mead Gallery, Warwick Arts Centre, Coventry
  • REVIEW | Parmigianino: The Vision of Saint Jerome – National Gallery, London
  • HIGHLIGHTS | Collect 2025 – Somerset House, London
  • REVIEW | The Laughing Stock of the Heartless Stars – The Brown Collection, London
  • HIGHLIGHTS | Drawing the Italian Renaissance – The King’s Gallery
  • REVIEW | Anthony McCall: Solid Light – Tate Modern
  • REVIEW | Monet and London – Courtauld Gallery
  • HIGHLIGHTS | London Art Fair 2025 – Business Design Centre
  • REVIEW | Van Gogh: Poets and Lovers – National Gallery
  • REVIEW | Michael Craig-Martin – Royal Academy of Arts
  • REVIEW | Hockney and Piero: A Longer Look – National Gallery
  • HIGHLIGHTS | Woolwich Contemporary Print Fair 2024 – Woolwich Works
  • HIGHLIGHTS | LAPADA London 2024 – Berkeley Square
  • HIGHLIGHTS | Affordable Art Fair Battersea Autumn 2024 – Evolution London
  • HIGHLIGHTS | Frieze Masters 2024 – Regent’s Park
  • HIGHLIGHTS | Frieze London 2024 – Regent’s Park
  • HIGHLIGHTS | StART Art Fair 2024 – Camden Town Hall
  • HIGHLIGHTS | Frieze Sculpture 2024 – Regent’s Park
  • REVIEW | Yoshida: Three Generations of Japanese Printmaking – Dulwich Picture Gallery
  • HIGHLIGHTS | British Art Fair 2024 – Saatchi Gallery
  • REVIEW | Moco Museum, London
  • REVIEW | Expressionists: Kandinsky, Münter and The Blue Rider – Tate Modern
  • REVIEW | Six Lives: The Stories of Henry VIII’s Queens – National Portrait Gallery
  • REVIEW | Sargent and Fashion – Tate Britain
  • REVIEW | Summer Exhibition 2024 – Royal Academy of Arts
  • THE BIG REVIEW | Taylor Swift: Songbook Trail – Victoria & Albert Museum, London
  • REVIEW | The Last Caravaggio – National Gallery
  • REVIEW | 500 Years of Drawing – Trois Crayons
  • HIGHLIGHTS | Little London Art Fair 2024
  • REVIEW | Francesca Woodman and Julia Margaret Cameron: Portraits to Dream In – National Portrait Gallery
  • REVIEW | The Time is Always Now: Artists Reframe the Black Figure – National Portrait Gallery
  • GUEST REVIEW | The Tortured Poets Department – Taylor Swift
  • REVIEW | Yoko Ono: Music of the Mind – Tate Modern
  • REVIEW | Holbein at the Tudor Court – The Queen’s Gallery, Buckingham Palace
  • REVIEW | Angelica Kauffman – Royal Academy of Arts
  • REVIEW | Cute – Somerset House
  • REVIEW | Entangled Pasts, 1768 – now: Art, Colonialism and Change – Royal Academy of Arts
  • REVIEW | Flaming June – Royal Academy of Arts & Leighton House
  • REVIEW | Women in Revolt! Art and Activism in the UK 1970-1990 – Tate Britain
  • HIGHLIGHTS | London Original Print Fair 2024 – Somerset House
  • REVIEW | From the Baroque to Today: New Acquisitions of Works on Paper – Courtauld Gallery
  • REVIEW | Drop Shadows – Oliver Projects & Sims Reed Gallery
  • HIGHLIGHTS | Collect 2024 – Somerset House
  • REVIEW | Capturing the Moment – Tate Modern
  • REVIEW | Kira Phoenix K’inan / Living Rooms – BobCat Gallery
  • REVIEW | Philip Guston – Tate Modern
  • REVIEW | The Cult of Beauty – Wellcome Collection
  • REVIEW | Daido Moriyama: A Retrospective – The Photographer’s Gallery
  • REVIEW | Pesellino: A Renaissance Master Revealed – National Gallery
  • REVIEW | Rubens and Women – Dulwich Picture Gallery
  • REVIEW | Liotard and the Lavergne Family Breakfast – National Gallery
  • REVIEW | Hiroshi Sugimoto – Hayward Gallery, Southbank Centre
  • REVIEW | Marina Abramović – Royal Academy of Arts
  • THE BIG REVIEW | Michelangelo and Beyond – Albertina Museum, Vienna

Share this:

  • Tweet
  • Click to print (Opens in new window) Print
  • More
  • Click to email a link to a friend (Opens in new window) Email
  • Share on Tumblr
Like Loading…

Nigel Ip is a Freelance Critic & Art Historian

London, UK

Subscribe to be the first to know my thoughts on the latest shows.

  • Instagram
  • Mail
  • LinkedIn

Create a website or blog at WordPress.com

Privacy & Cookies: This site uses cookies. By continuing to use this website, you agree to their use.
To find out more, including how to control cookies, see here: Cookie Policy
  • Subscribe Subscribed
    • Nigel Ip
    • Join 99 other subscribers.
    • Already have a WordPress.com account? Log in now.
    • Nigel Ip
    • Subscribe Subscribed
    • Sign up
    • Log in
    • Copy shortlink
    • Report this content
    • View post in Reader
    • Manage subscriptions
    • Collapse this bar
%d