Reviews - Art
December 15, 2008 Christie Davies revels in the joys of surface and the rejection of the abstract at the Andy Warhol exhibition: Andy Warhol: Other Voices, Other Rooms at the Hayward Gallery Christie Davies
November 06, 2008 Christie Davies has a good sneer at socialist design at the V&A and explains why socialist economics could not work and made life ugly and uncomfortable: Cold War Modern: Design 1945 - 1970 at the V&A Christie Davies
September 25, 2008 Christie Davies enjoyed the Hadrian exhibition but dislikes the Emperor - Hadrian was a paedophile, oppressed the Geordies and drove the Jews into exile: Hadrian: Empire and Conflict at the British Museum Christie Davies
September 11, 2008 In Wyndham Lewis's portraits he is not Lewis the Vorticist - but if he had never been Lewis the Vorticist he would have been nothing like as good a portrait painter as he was, argues Christie Davies: Wyndham Lewis Portraits at the NPG Christie Davies
August 27, 2008 Christie Davies is bored by Vilhelm Hammershøi - and reminded of why Denmark is boring: Vilhelm Hammershøi: The Poetry of Silence at the Royal Academy Christie Davies
August 20, 2008 A Sight of the Taliban - Seamus Murphy's photographs reveal more about the evil of the Taliban than a thousand newspaper editorials, argues Christie Davies: A Darkness Visible: Afghanistan - Photographs by Seamus Murphy at Asia House, London Christie Davies
June 24, 2008 Enough Said: The Lure of the East: British Orientalist Painting at Tate Britain Christie Davies
April 21, 2008 The works of Duchamp, Man Ray and Picabia have not lost their capacity to make us laugh, says Christie Davies - They are as absurd, French and disgusting as ever: Duchamp, Man Ray, Picabia: The Moment Art Changed Forever at Tate Modern Christie Davies
January 18, 2008 Sleaze, Sodomy and Sado-Masochism - Christie Davies considers what has been included - and excluded - from the Barbican's exhibition of sexually-explicit art: Seduced: Art and Sex from Antiquity to Now at the Barbican Christie Davies
December 13, 2007 Hitler, the Rosenbergs, Fox Hunting, the American Freeway, the stressful tedium of working in a Factory or Primary School - the Hayward paintings reveal modern life in unique ways: The Painting of Modern Life at the Hayward Gallery Christie Davies
December 10, 2007 Christie Davies urges you to go and enjoy Sickert's The Camden Town Nudes and The Camden Town Murders at The Courtauld but don't expect stories and don't expect to be shocked: Walter Sickert: The Camden Town Nudes at the Courtauld Gallery Christie Davies
November 30, 2007 Pop Art Portraits and the 1960s - Christie Davies has a flashback of all the nightmares and all the cheerful memories of the 1960s: Pop Art Portraits at the National Portrait Gallery Christie Davies
November 21, 2007 Christie Davies admires an American devoted to collecting the glories of British Art: An American's Passion for British Art: Paul Mellon's Legacy at the Royal Academy Christie Davies
November 12, 2007 A Defence of Louise Bourgeois - Christie Davies and Richard Dorment are wrong about Louise Bourgeois, argues David Wootton: Louise Bourgeois at Tate Modern David Wootton
November 06, 2007 Christie Davies looks at three massive works of art parked outside our art galleries and is amazed at British art galleries' gullibility and moved by the sensibility of the Chinese: Sculptures by Doris Salcedo, Louise Bourgeois and Zhang Huan Christie Davies
October 12, 2007 Christie Davies visits Prague and admires the artistic rebels of the 1950s and 1960s: Skupina Maj 57 - The Art Group Maj 57 at the Imperial Stables, Prague Castle Christie Davies
October 08, 2007 Millais is shown at Tate Britain at both his unexpected best and also at his all too dreadful worst, finds David Wootton: Millais at Tate Britain David Wootton
September 10, 2007 Of the impressionists on display Christie Davies revels in Manet and Monet but is repelled by Renoir and Cassatt: Impressionists by the Sea at the Royal Academy Christie Davies
September 04, 2007 Christie Davies is once again overwhelmed by the wonders of Dutch art and drawn to the portraits of this so likeable and so ludicrous a people: Dutch Portraits: The Age of Rembrandt and Frans Hals at the National Gallery Christie Davies
August 01, 2007 Christie Davies realises that only drunkards will ever fully appreciate Dalí: Dalí at Tate Modern Christie Davies
July 10, 2007 Christie Davies goes to Boston to see the work of a man known as an American artist and a realist painter and finds not a boring latter-day Thomas Eakins but an artist of great talent well versed in European art and well able to grapple with modernity Christie Davies
June 27, 2007 Rarely has Christie Davies enjoyed an exhibition so much - or read so much nonsense as written in its catalogue - as Antony Gormley's Blind Light at the Hayward Christie Davies
June 27, 2007 The stories behind the portraits of the Dutch Golden Age bring these paintings alive to Lilian Pizzichini: Dutch Portraits: The Age of Rembrandt and Frans Hals at the National Gallery Lilian Pizzichini
June 20, 2007 The Caravan Gallery insist on finding the extraordinary in the ordinary: Is Britain Great? - The Caravan Gallery Lilian Pizzichini
June 18, 2007 Christie Davies goes to Denmark to see some exciting modern Chinese art and finds the ghost of Mao and the vigour of a new generation of artists conscious of Chinese tradition and open to the world: Made in China: Chinese Art Now! Christie Davies
June 07, 2007 Lilian Pizzichini enjoys viewing a family album of the British and decides there is life in the old country yet: How We Are: Photographing Britain at Tate Britain Lilian Pizzichini
June 06, 2007 Christie Davies is struck by how repeated exposure to Venice emancipated John Singer Sargent and allowed a real artist to emerge. But why did he keep going there? John Singer Sargent in Venice at the Museo Correr in Venice Christie Davies
May 23, 2007 Antony Gormley's new London sculpture Event Horizon is not art - it is an Arts Council-inspired directive on how to reach out to the community, argues Lilian Pizzichini: Antony Gormley: Blind Light at the Hayward Gallery Lilian Pizzichini
May 16, 2007 Christie Davies encounters serious rubbish in Paris: Le Nouveau Réalisme at the Galeries nationales du Grand Palais, Paris Christie Davies
May 08, 2007 Go and see Surreal Things, says Christie Davies. You will not be shocked but you will be surprised. You will not be amazed but you will be amused: Surreal Things: Surrealism and Design at the V&A Christie Davies
April 26, 2007 Christie Davies understands why the unknown Monet has remained unknown: The Unknown Monet: Pastels and Drawings at the Royal Academy Christie Davies
March 20, 2007 We find Hogarth a much more disturbing artist than his contemporaries did - David Wootton explains why: Hogarth at Tate Britain David Wootton
March 20, 2007 Lilian Pizzichini does battle with the crowds at Tate Britain's Hogarth exhibition: Hogarth - Tate Britain Lilian Pizzichini
March 20, 2007 Christie Davies enjoys the erotic romps daringly portrayed by the artists of eighteenth century France and Hogarth's denunciations of them as unspeakable French filth: The Triumph of Eros at the Hermitage Rooms and Hogarth at Tate Britain Christie Davies
March 15, 2007 What's wrong with Gilbert and George? David Wootton argues that Gilbert and George should never have been allowed into the Tate: Gilbert and George: Major Exhibition at Tate Modern David Wootton
March 13, 2007 Christie Davies thanks the sponsors Ernst & Young for enabling him to explore the full richness of Renoir's landscape painting: Renoir Landscapes 1865-1883 at the National Gallery Christie Davies