Tate Liverpool’s major show of Fernand Léger- his first in Britain for 30 years- hosts the great Cubist innovator’s murals alongside 30-plus canvasses, not to mention publications, photographs, and experimental films. It’s clear from...
Tate Modern is really pulling in the crowds with its new show, ‘Pierre Bonnard: The Colour of Memory’: it’s looking as if they may well have another monster Hockney-sized hit on their hands. Instantloveland braved the...
Riding in on the slipstream of its current show, ‘Albert Irvin and Abstract Expressionism’, RWA Bristol’s ‘Abstract Painting Now’, co-hosted by the University of Gloucestershire, is a one-day symposium focusing on ‘the current status...
Palimpsest, eh? Hard to spell; even harder to say, after the fourth visit to the punch bowl on New Year’s Eve; but very easy to love, as the countless Instagram snaps of peeling plaster and paint will testify: we’re all in...
Unimpressed by the local talent, many a young, ambitious British artist of the 1950s and 1960s had their head turned by the rugged good looks and outlaw charm of American Abstract Expressionism. However, Instantloveland has been around...
In the astonishing, beautiful gallery spaces of the Fundació in Barcelona that bears his name, ‘Antoni Tàpies: Political Autobiography’ gathers together a large selection of the artist’s paintings, assemblages and prints, alongside...
William Tillyer turned 80 this year. To mark the occasion, the Bernard Jacobson Gallery is serving up a hefty helping of his recent work, which fuses the luscious paint handling of the British landscape tradition with this...
Instantloveland apologises for sounding like a stuck record, but it can’t have escaped anyone’s notice that the painting culture seems to be in thrall to all things geometric in abstraction at the moment. The New Art Centre...
Dominic Beattie is an artist fast making a name for himself in the geometric realms of contemporary abstraction: and with ‘Harder Edge’ he both curates, and exhibits alongside, a whole host of other practitioners of the...
