by Rick Jones | Jul 21, 2021 | Awards, Books, Dance, Drama, Film, Music, Visual Arts
On Wednesday 14 July 2021, towards the end of the morning, the Critics’ Circle helped to get the wheels of live social intercourse moving again when fifty members arrived for luncheon at the National Liberal Club. The guest of honour was novelist and playwright...
by Clare Finn | May 31, 2021 | Visual Arts
Reacting against academic art and the classical tenets on which it is based, Dubuffet sought meaning in overlooked, base matter and the forgotten in society. Born in 1901 in Le Havre, he decided early he wanted to become an artist. He attended night classes in life...
by Rick Jones | May 15, 2021 | Awards, Books, Dance, Drama, Film, Music, Uncategorized, Visual Arts
Every year since 1988, the Critics’ Circle has voted for a single leading artist to receive an engraved crystal Rosebowl in recognition of their distinguished contribution to the arts. The first recipient was Sir Peter Hall, Director of the National Theatre and...
by Clare Finn | Apr 7, 2021 | Uncategorized, Visual Arts
For those coming across the work of the British painter, Mary Newcomb, for the first time her paintings may look naïve. Her proportions seem wrong. Her fore- and backgrounds come across as being amorphous, all on one plane. She seems not to use perspective. But there...
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 Music Editor | Feb 15, 2021 | Awards, Books, Dance, Drama, Film, Music, Uncategorized, Visual Arts
One of the greatest living stars of British classical music, the mezzo-soprano Dame Janet Baker CH DBE, was voted the winner of the 2019 Critics’ Circle Rosebowl by the 500 members of the Circle. Regrettably both the announcement and the award have been delayed...
