Michael Craig-Martin at the Serpentine Gallery

I went to this solely on the basis of a review in the FT; otherwise I would have casually assumed that he wasn’t for me. in fact it was a fascinating show, even for someone knowing nothing about the artist. I suppose it is trite to say that [Read More…]

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Books Fighting on All Fronts – John Rothenstein in the Art World, published by Unicorn Press on April 11th 2018, is my third book. It follows Queer Saint: The Cultured Life of Peter Watson, written with Jeremy Dronfield and published by John Blake in 2015, and British and [Read More…]

Gerald Wilde at the October Gallery

I don’t think I have visited Old Gloucester Street before. It isn’t an obvious route anywhere. It has something about it which screams “typical Central London back street”. There are many such streets north of Oxford Street for example. It contains many types of buildings, shuffling rather uncomfortably together, the [Read More…]