by Simon Tait | May 22, 2022 | Visual Arts
The new venture of the Visual Arts and Architecture section’s new chair, Alex Leith May 20 was an important birthday that saw the first appearance of beautiful, bouncing ROSA. But she’s a newcomer who has been 15 years in gestation. ROSA is the brainchild of a... 
by Simon Tait | Mar 16, 2021 | Visual Arts
‘A fetish is a story masquerading as an object’ – Robert Stoller This morning I heard on the radio that the body of Sarah Everard, a young woman missing for a week, has been found in undergrowth and that a member of the Metropolitan police has been arrested. We... 
by Simon Tait | Oct 21, 2020 | Visual Arts
The colourist painter Philip Sutton was 92 on October 20, and is using his experiences of eight months in lockdown to embark on the next phase of his career – as a gallerist. With several planned exhibition cancelled since February, Sutton is taking exhibiting his... 
by Simon Tait | Oct 16, 2019 | Visual Arts
If you are planning an imminent trip to the Netherlands, there are two must-see exhibitions on at the moment. Pieter de Hooch in Delft: From the Shadow of Vermeer at the Museum Prinsenhof, Delft and Rembrandt-Velázquez: Dutch & Spanish Masters at the Rijksmuseum,... 
by Simon Tait | Nov 4, 2018 | Visual Arts
This year the Critics’ Circle Visual Arts and Architecture Section made two awards, both to individuals who might be said ‘not to have received due recognition earlier in their formidable careers.’ Both have made art in their own inimitable ways. Frank Bowling,... 