Queen Elizabeth and three godesses enacting the judgement of Paris possibly by Isaac Oliver (c1556-1617), a recent acquisition with the support of Mark Weiss which will be part of the National Portrait Gallery's major exhibition Elizabeth and Her People. The exhibition will run from 10 October to 5 January 2014. © National Portrait Gallery
Visual Arts
An Introduction to the Section
Published: 08/11/2010
Chairman, Simon Tait
Hon Secretary, Corinna Lotz
Featured articles
Critics' Secrets
A Circle Centenary Event - A Mall Galleries Exhibition chosen by members of the section
Corinna Lotz
28/03/2013
Critics' Choice
The Rembrandts of the East End
They were a sensation in the 1930s, forgotten with the Second World War, but a new book rediscovers the East London Group of painters and their charismatic mentor
Simon Tait
24/01/2013
Becoming Picasso
Paris 1901
26/01/2013
The start of a great career
Sue Hubbard’s Girl in White hits bookshops
Expressionist novel praised by Weldon
05/10/2012
Critics' Circle member's new novel published Oct 11
Peter Murray presented with 2012 visual arts award
Yorkshire Sculpture Park founder honoured
28/09/2012
The Lost Prince
The forgotten Henry - National Portrait Gallery until 13 January 2013.
Willliam Russell
17/10/2012
The Prince who might have changed the destiny of the Stuart dynasty had he lived.
Cotman in Normandy
Dulwich Picture Gallery until 13 January
William Russell
16/10/2012
Scenes across the Channel
The Road to 2012
The last lap in the National Portrait Gallery exhibition about the Stratford Games
Simon Smith
19/07/2012
Athletes, torch bearers and Boris under one roof. The National Portrait Gallery's BT Road to 2012 exhibition is worth catching.
INVISIBLE: ART ABOUT THE UNSEEN 1957-2012. HAYWARD GALLERY, LONDON
by Sue Hubbard
25/06/2012
Abstract photography
The work of Charles March
Simon Tait
27/05/2012
Saint Rosalia and Ragamala
Twin exhibitions at Dulwich Picture Gallery
William Russell
15/02/2012
A splendid pairing.
Peeling the golden banana
firstsite, the new art gallery, opens in Colchester
Simon Tait
22/09/2011
Jane Avril
Toulouse-Lautrec
Denise Silvester-Carr
23/06/2011
Toulouse-Lautrec and his muse, the dancer, Jane Avril.
Hoppe Portraits: Society, Studio and Street
The National Portrait Gallery February 17 - May 30
Denise Silvester-Carr
22/02/2011
The first show in 30 years of the work of one of the great photographers of the first half of the 20th century
Tate Britain - Watercolour
Tate Britain invites you to challenge your preconceptions of what watercolour is.
Denise Silvester-Carr
22/02/2011
An engineer's love affair with art
How a Genoese collector supported anti-regime artists in Fascist Italy.
Review by Corinna Lotz
18/02/2011
An engineer's love affair with art - Corinna Lotz's review of the latest Estorick exhibition
Norman Rockwell Gallery
Some of the highlights
28/01/2011
See Estelle Lovatt's review of the Norman Rockwell exhibition - here are some of the pictures on show.
Taking the Stade
Jerwood Gallery opens at Hastings
Smon Tait
23/03/2012
Richard Walker: The Bigger Picture
By Corinna Lotz
17/10/2011
Apocalypse Then
A Victorian visionary whose work has influenced film and video
Denise Silvester-Carr
10/10/2011
The exhibition, which pays tribute to a remarkable man at Tate Britain, runs until January
Vermeer's Women
Secrets and Silence
William Russell
01/10/2011
This exhibition in the Firzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, runs from October 5 2011 to January 15, 2012 and explores the mysterious appeal of the women in Johannes Vermeer's paintings and thos of some of his contemporaries.
Kenneth Grange
Making Modern Britain
Denise Silvester-Carr
01/09/2011
The Kenneth Grange Exhibition is at the Design Museum, Shad Thames until October 30
At last, our first award
And the winner is - an architect
05/08/2011
There is a first time for everything.
Can one building save a dying town?
Maybe. Simon Tait meets the architect behind Margate's stunning new gallery
20/04/2011
Royal Watercolour Society
18/03/2011
Watercolour painting today.
Ida Kar - 1908-74 Bohemian Photographer
National Portrait Gallery until June 19
11/03/2011
The young Sylvia Syms photographed by Ida Kar
Life, Legend and Landscape at the Courtauld Gallery
Victorian Drawings and Water Colours
William Russell
17/02/2011
The Courtauld Gallery has an amazing collection of some 7000 paintings and drawings. A small selection, some not seen before, are included in this latest exhibiton which will run until May 15, 2011.
Norman Rockwell's America
The United States' best known, best loved illustrator
Estelle Lovatt
15/01/2011
As a British art critic, before you criticize Norman Rockwell's exhibition 'Norman Rockwell's America... in Dulwich', make sure it's not just out of ignorance of his intentions, or simply misunderstanding him. As Norman Rockwell (1894 -1978) was pitching his stall to the neighbourly, welcoming folk, pioneering in spirit typical of Grant Wood's 'American Gothic', it is this American realism ( that of the visual jokes and quirky insights considered eccentric from British cousins across the pond) that is marvellous; America's Exceptionalism.
Lucien Freud - The Naked Truth
Part of the 2012 Cultural Olympiad - National Portrait Gallery
Simon Smith
19/02/2012
The exhibition runs at the National Portrait Gallery until May 27.
The First Actresses
Until January 8 at the National Portrait Gallery
Denise Silvester-Carr
26/10/2011
Leading ladies - the founders of a great profession, some of whom belonged to the oldest one.
The Spanish Line
The Courtauld Gallery's current exhibition
William Russell
13/10/2011
The Spanish Line, an exhibition of some 40 drawings from the Courtauld's collection of works by Spanish artists, runs until January 15, 2012.
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Our first ever visual arts award is presented
Sir David Chipperfield receives prize from Simon Tait
21/09/2011
Japan’s art deco
JaponJapoinisme: Falize to Fabergé At Wartski, 14 Grafton Street, London W1S 4DE to May 20.
15/05/2011
Our lunchtime Bath treat
Simon Tait
16/12/2010
On November 30 we were the lunch guests of the Holburne Museum – noy in Bath but at the St John Restaurant in Smithfield – where the director, Alexander Sturgis, and chairman, the former art dealer David Posnett, wanted to tell us not only of their reopening in the spring but of a wonderful gift from a 20th century doyen of the British stage.
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Members of the Visual Arts Section
Simon Tait
04/01/2010
The following are Members of the Visual Arts section of the Critics' Circle