What Makes British Art ‘British’?J.J. CharlesworthArtReview20 February 2025In ‘The Invention of British Art’, Bendor Grosvenor explores how the ‘commissioning classes’ have long influenced the making of a national style
Once Upon a Time: Art Before the InternetJ.J. CharlesworthArtReview24 January 2025‘Electric Dreams’ at Tate Modern reinterprets art at the dawn of the digital explosion as a harbinger for our current moment
Art Against the PeopleJ.J. CharlesworthArtReview15 November 2024It’s time for largescale exhibitions to address the realities of general audiences, rather than catering to the interests of the curatorial class
Gary Hume Gets Self-ConsciousJ.J. CharlesworthArtReview06 October 2024‘Mirrors and other creatures’ at Sprüth Magers, London finds the YBA artist conceptually hovering between the two registers of artistic culture and design value
The Unfortunate Ironies of Maria Balshaw’s ‘Gathering of Strangers’J.J. CharlesworthArtReview02 October 2024The Tate director opposes the supposed ideas and interests of a ‘dominant cultural elite’ while failing to reckon with her own place within it
Robin Hood Roundabouts: The UK Arts Funding CrisisJ.J. CharlesworthArtReview25 September 2024The arts need funding, but will current proposals do anything more than create new gatekeepers?
Minoru Nomata’s Guide to NowhereJ.J. CharlesworthArtReview05 September 2024Are his paintings allegories for psychological inner-states? Or reflections on societies that aspired to a future that never was?
