Noah Davis’s Mythical Social RealismJ.J. CharlesworthArtReview23 April 2025The late artist’s painting, on show at the Barbican, positions ordinary people and ordinary life as a thing to be cherished
Who’s Afraid of Identity?J.J. CharlesworthArtReview16 April 2025After Trump’s second coming, the artworld will have to work hard to regain its legitimacy
Takashi Murakami: Something Like a PhenomenonJ.J. CharlesworthArtReview14 April 2025From 2007: J.J. Charlesworth probes Murakami’s attitude to making culture, both inside and outside the artworld
Grayson Perry: Insider or Outsider?J.J. Charlesworthartreview.com04 April 2025In ‘Delusions of Grandeur’ at the Wallace Collection, the British artist pokes fun at the artworld’s hierarchies of class and taste. But is he really in on the joke?
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
