Polly Allen reviews David Hockney: A Bigger Picture at the Royal Academy of Arts
You might better recognise this artist for his polished LA scenes of swimming pools and apartments, such as A Bigger Splash (1967), but the...
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Gerhard Richter at Tate Modern By Polly Allen
Yes, it’s another big retrospective at the Tate to get your teeth into, and this one will attract fans of minimalism, modernism, war art,...
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A Snapshot of Greatness: The Photographs Gallery at the V&A By Polly Allen
For an institution that’s been collecting photographs as fine art since 1856, it might seem a little strange that the Victoria and Albert...
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Postmodernism at the V&A By Polly Allen
The problem with calling something an ‘ism’ is that everyone pretends they know what it means, but actually it’s a word that is...
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Women War Artists at the Imperial War Museum, London By Polly Allen
War often seems like an inherently male pursuit, with the historical imagery of men in the trenches and the perpetual media fascination...
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Anatomy (Group Show) Review Antlers Gallery, Park Street, Bristol By Polly Allen
It’s no coincidence that, for as long as humans have been civilised, we’ve been dually fascinated and horrified by anatomy. From...
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The Sea Wall: Haegue Yang with an inclusion by Felix Gonzalez-Torres at the Arnolfini: Review by Polly Allen
Modern art often gets a bad press, for being too cerebral and relying on what much of the public would perceive to be trickery – far...
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Joan Miró: The Ladder of Escape Review by Polly Allen
It was with some trepidation that I entered Room 1 of Tate Modern’s The Ladder of Escape, a look back at the wide-ranging career of the...
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Polly Allen reviews the Robin and Lucienne Day Exhibition
Furniture and textiles are two design areas that most of us, including myself, are more than likely to take for granted. We don’t think...
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Polly Allen on Mervyn Peake’s Centenary
In the suitably grandiose setting of Pallant House’s older townhouse section, the intricate artwork of Mervyn Peake seemed quite at home....
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