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2022
Hayward Gallery
Louise Bourgeois: The Woven Child

National Gallery
Virtual Veronese

Victoria and Albert Museum
Fashioning Masculinities: The Art of Menswear

Gazelli Art House
Liminality by Aida Mahmudova

artsdepot
The Fabric of Our Nation



Royal Academy of Arts
The Woman in White: Joanna Hiffernan and James McNeill Whistler

British Museum
The world of Stonehenge

‘The paintings are often large, dark, and full of impasto, evoking a sense of animalistic violence in Bacon’s creative process. His use of materials creates some splendidly textured surfaces, including an unusual decision to embrace the use of dust. Oftentimes, the impasto is disturbing, as a horrifically realistic ear or snarling mouth materialises from a flat surface.’
Review – Francis Bacon: Man and Beast
Royal Academy of Arts
Francis Bacon: Man and Beast


National Gallery
Dürer’s Journeys: Travels of a Renaissance Artist
Jacopo de’ Barbari and Adam and Eve (1504)

The Wallace Collection
Frans Hals: The Male Portrait

The Courtauld Gallery
Pen to Brush: British Drawings and Watercolours

2021
The Courtauld Gallery
The new Courtauld Gallery
Avant et après (1903) – Paul Gauguin
The Trinity with Saints Mary Magdalen and John the Baptist (c.1491-94) – Sandro Botticelli

The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens
The Blue Boy (1770) – Thomas Gainsborough

National Gallery
The Red Boy (1825) – Sir Thomas Lawrence

‘Where his paintings are tightly choreographed performances, his drawings show the frantic chaos and craftsmanship of the endless rehearsals within Poussin’s mind.’
Review – Poussin and the Dance
National Gallery
Poussin and the Dance

Stephen Ongpin Fine Art
Giorgione to Picasso

Cristea Roberts Gallery
Discovery and Invention: The Early Graphic Works of Josef Albers

‘The ink matches his existing drawings. The monogram is as iconic as it gets. And the graphic style is recognisably Dürer’s own. But the true light at the end of the tunnel was the watermark on the paper.’
Review – Dürer and his Time
Agnews
Dürer and his Time

180 Studios
LUX: New Wave of Contemporary Art

‘Treasures are literally around every corner, from Guido Cagnacci’s magnificent Jacob Peeling the Rods taking centre stage in the Italian section to a glistening little Gerrit Dou of A Girl chopping Onions on the way to the Rembrandts!’
Review – Masterpieces from Buckingham Palace
The Queen’s Gallery
Masterpieces from Buckingham Palace

The Lightbox, Woking
Lines of Beauty: Master Drawings from Chatsworth

Woolwich Contemporary Print Fair
Woolwich Contemporary Print Fair 2021

Frieze Art Fair
Frieze Masters 2021

Exhibition Hub / Fever
Van Gogh: The Immersive Experience – London
British Museum
Hokusai: The Great Picture Book of Everything

British Museum
Nero: the man behind the myth
‘This is the definition of an excellent and concise exhibition which breathes life into a national icon using the best possible historic objects available to us. The only disappointment is that this could not be a permanent display for future generations to enjoy.’
Review – Thomas Becket: Murder and the Making of a Saint
British Museum
Thomas Becket: Murder and the Making of a Saint

The Wallace Collection
Rubens: Reuniting the Great Landscapes

National Maritime Museum
Tudors to Windsors: British Royal Portraits

Victoria & Albert Museum
Alice: Curiouser and Curiouser

Stephen Ongpin Fine Art
Master Drawings 2021

Bowman Sculpture
Rodin: Influenced and Inspired

Eames Fine Art
Malcolm Franklin: Vantage Point

‘This is a show worth visiting for the simple reason that it features exceptional artworks, just enough text to get you through, and the experience isn’t tedious, despite its subject matter.’
Review – Michael Armitage: Paradise Edict
Royal Academy of Arts
Michael Armitage: Paradise Edict

‘This exhibition isn’t rosy and beautiful; it’s depressing, emotional, and gut-wrenching.
And for that reason, it’s just perfect.’
Review – Tracey Emin / Edvard Munch: The Loneliness of the Soul
Royal Academy of Arts
Tracey Emin / Edvard Munch: The Loneliness of the Soul

Affordable Art Fair London
Affordable Art Fair, Battersea 2021

White Cube, Bermondsey
Liu Wei: Nudità

Royal Academy of Arts
David Hockney: The Arrival of Spring, Normandy, 2020

The Other Art Fair
The Other Art Fair 2021

Pace Gallery, London
JR: Eye to the World

Victoria & Albert Museum
Renaissance Watercolours

‘Appearing like paintings made by a child, there is also a complexity of emotions and viewpoints in her works. Bearing exaggerated expressions, the sitters are uncomfortable in the picture plane and they know it.’
Review – Chantal Joffe: Story
Victoria Miro Gallery
Chantal Joffe: Story

Victoria Miro Gallery
Yayoi Kusama

Tate Modern
The Making of Rodin

Tate Britain
Lynette Yiadom-Boakye

White Cube, Mason’s Yard
Julie Curtiss

Abrams Books
We Are Here: Visionaries of Color Transforming the Art World (2021) – Jasmin Hernandez (Gallery Gurls)

Newport Street Gallery
Damien Hirst: The End of a Century

National Gallery
Sensing the Unseen: Step into Gossaert’s ‘Adoration’

Lyndsey Ingram
Bourdon Street Chemist (2021) – Lucy Sparrow

Tate Britain
Turner’s Modern World

2020
Tate Modern
Dora Maurer

Tate Modern
Bruce Nauman

‘Ultimately, the exhibition shows that Artemisia Gentileschi was no mere legend. Through passion and hard work, she devoted her life to building her reputation as a noteworthy artist. She wasn’t satisfied until she could be the best of the best, constantly vying for patronage from the most prominent members of society.’
Review – Artemisia
National Gallery
Artemisia
Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4
Part 5 | Part 6 | Part 7 | Part 8
Part 9 | Part 10 | Part 11 | Part 12
Part 13 | Part 14 | Part 15 | Part 16

National Gallery
Titian: Love, Desire, Death

Hayward Gallery
Among the Trees

National Gallery
Nicolaes Maes: Dutch Master of the Golden Age

Tate Modern
Dora Maar

Royal Academy of Arts
Picasso and Paper

‘I think one’s ability to clearly differentiate the individual hairs on Adam’s legs is testament enough to the unprecedented opportunity to view the exterior panels of the Ghent Altarpiece as Hubert and Jan van Eyck once did.’
Review – Van Eyck: An Optical Revolution
Queen’s House, Greenwich
Faces of a Queen: The Armada Portraits of Elizabeth I

British Museum
Troy: Myth and Reality

‘In a culture superficially obsessed with youthful appearances, Freud’s portraits of himself and others celebrate the aging body. His unforgiving, unflattering approach to his sitters compliments an appreciation for wrinkles, stretch marks, and bruises.’
Review – Lucian Freud: The Self-Portraits
Royal Academy of Arts
Lucian Freud: The Self-Portraits


2019
National Gallery
Gauguin Portraits

National Gallery
Leonardo: Experience a Masterpiece

Tate Britain
William Blake

Victoria and Albert Museum
Food: Bigger than the Plate

National Gallery
Bartolomé Bermejo: Master of the Spanish Renaissance

‘I think what Vallotton ultimately became was a painter of stillness. His subjects are frozen in time. Whether it was embracing couples, reclining nudes, outdoor activities, or inanimate objects, there was always a photographic quality to his works. Indeed, photography was part of his creative process, but his paintings transcend documentary function and enter a state of ambiguous storytelling.’
Review – Félix Vallotton: Painter of Disquiet
Royal Academy of Arts
Félix Vallotton: Painter of Disquiet

‘Her self-portraits are witty but critical. Her practice is solitary but her messages are timelessly relevant.’
Review – Cindy Sherman
National Portrait Gallery
Cindy Sherman

National Maritime Museum
The Moon

Tate Modern
Olafur Eliasson

British Library
Leonardo da Vinci: A Mind in Motion

‘The flow of ideas in Leonardo’s graphic oeuvre defies chronology, and the fact that the curator has managed to guide visitors through this in a comprehensible way whilst also educating them about complex drawing techniques is a feat worthy of admiration.’
Review – Leonardo da Vinci: A Life in Drawing

Tate Britain
Van Gogh and Britain

British Museum
Manga

British Museum
Edvard Munch: Love and Angst

Tate Modern
Pierre Bonnard

Two Temple Place
John Ruskin

Strawberry Hill
Lost Treasures of Strawberry Hill

‘This exhibition isn’t a competition between two artists; it’s a dialogue about humanity and the human form, showing society at its finest and at its worst. It forces us to consider the other side.’
Review – Klimt / Schiele: Drawings
Royal Academy of Arts
Klimt / Schiele: Drawings

Royal Academy of Arts
Bill Viola / Michelangelo

National Portrait Gallery
Gainsborough’s Family Album
National Gallery
Landseer’s The Monarch of the Glen
British Museum
I am Ashurbanipal: king of the world, king of Assyria
British Museum
I object: Ian Hislop’s search for dissent
2018
Tate Modern
Anni Albers
Tate Britain
Edward Burne-Jones
Royal Academy of Arts
Renzo Piano
Royal Academy of Arts
Oceania
Dulwich Picture Gallery
Ribera: Art of Violence
National Gallery
Lorenzo Lotto Portraits
National Gallery
Courtauld Impressionists
Victoria & Albert Museum
Videogames: Design/Play/Disrupt
Arts Theatre, West End
SIX: The Musical
National Gallery
Thomas Cole: Eden to Empire
Royal Academy of Arts
The Great Spectacle
Victoria & Albert Museum
Frida Kahlo: Making Her Self Up
Hong Kong University Museum and Art Gallery
Shaping the Human Body: Florentine Sculpture of the Italian Renaissance
Southbank Centre
ABBA Super Troupers: The Exhibition
National Portrait Gallery
Victorian Giants: The Birth of Art Photography
Tate Modern
Picasso 1932 – Love, Fame, Tragedy
Victoria & Albert Museum
Ocean Liners: Speed and Style
Royal Academy of Arts
Charles I: King and Collector
Albertina Museum, Vienna
Raphael
2017
Tate Modern
Modigliani
Nahmad Projects
Metafisica da Giardino
Royal Academy of Arts