In this post, we summarise all the articles and speaking engagements by the Critics’ Circle members on art and architecture during May 2025.
Clare Finn has written ‘Pre-Raphaelite Perfumed Redemption or the Sweet Smell of Sin‘, on the current Watts Gallery exhibition for the Critic’s Circle website.
Tabish Khan has previewed “The Top Exhibitions to See in London” for June 2025 on Londonist. He has his weekly newsletter through Londonist Urban Palette and for that he has interviews celebrating 100 years of photo booths, speaking to glass SIM card creator Liz Hingley and glass artist Hannah Gibson. Plus, he has two entries in his diary of a London Art Critic series. For FAD magazine, he has his weekly top 5, plus reviews of Hrair Sarkissian at Wolverhampton Art Gallery, Jonathan Baldock at Jupiter Artland and Austen and Turner at Harewood House. He is a co-host of the good, the bad and the arty podcast where they talk cyanotypes with Rosie Emerson and the podcast went live with Kelvin Okafor at the Mall Galleries. For Spaghetti Boost, he spoke to Amsterdam Art Week director Martina Halsema. In his debut piece for Lost Art, he wrote the article New Kids on the Blockchain: Who Buys Digital Art?
Corinna Lotz has written about Caravaggio’s destabilising moments of recognition for Real Democracy Movement and written an essay for a book on Frances Aviva Blane.
Estelle Lovatt spoke to GB News about the recent royal coronation portraits.
Oliver Wainwright has written a feature on Japanese love hotels, reviewed the refurbished National Gallery Sainsbury Wing, provided his thoughts on the Venice Architecture Biennale, written about Storm King sculpture park’s sublime $53m rebirth in upstate New York, and reviewed everyone’s favourite new museum – the V&A storehouse.
Sue Hubbard has written on Stephen Cox’s Atavistic Sculptures at Houghton Hall in Norfolk, for Artlyst.
Lead image courtesy Permindar Kaur. Photo: Richard Davies