mon 14/04/2025

Sarah Kent

Sarah Kent's picture
Bio
Sarah was the visual arts editor art of Time Out, the ICA’s Director of Exhibitions, has served on Turner Prize and other juries, and has written catalogues for the Hayward, ICA, Saatchi Gallery, White Cube and Haunch of Venison and books such as Shark-Infested Waters: The Saatchi Collection of British Art in the 90s.

Articles By Sarah Kent

Turner Prize 2023, Towner Eastbourne review - four contestants strike a sombre mood

Read more...

Philip Guston, Tate Modern review - a compelling look at an artist who derided the KKK

Read more...

Sarah Lucas: Happy Gas, Tate Britain review - overcrowding muffles the voice of the wildest of the YBAs

Read more...

The Nettle Dress review - a moving story exquisitely told

Read more...

Marina Abramović, Royal Academy review - young performers stand in for the absent artist

Read more...

A Life on the Farm review - a fabulous eccentric gets neatly packaged

Read more...

Baato review - Nepalese mountain folk await big changes with excitement and anxiety

Read more...

Jean Cooke: Ungardening, Garden Museum review - a cramped show of airy and spacious paintings

Read more...

Manchester International Festival exhibitions review - a new arts centre puts Manchester firmly on the cultural map

Read more...

Hello, Bookstore review - a documentary with shelf life

Read more...

Carrie Mae Weems: Reflections for Now, Barbican review - going from strength to strength on an epic journey

Read more...

Dear Earth: Art and Hope in a Time of Crisis, Hayward Gallery review - hope is what we need, but inspiration is a rarity

Read more...

Life is More Important than Art, Whitechapel Gallery review - themes of arrival, belonging and departure unite fascinating mixed show

Read more...

Capturing the Moment, Tate Modern review - the glorious power of painting

Read more...

Sarah Sze: Metronome, Artangel at Peckham Rye station review - an installation of visual complexity and physical simplicity

Read more...

The Dam review - a remarkably haunting allegory

Read more...

Pages

latest in today

Help to give theartsdesk a future!

It all started on 09/09/09. That memorable date, September 9 2009, marked the debut of theartsdesk.com.

It followed some...

Manic Street Preachers, Barrowland, Glasgow review - elder s...

As you might expect from a Manic Street Preachers gig, literary influences were never far away. A DH Lawrence quote was prominently displayed on...

Your Friends & Neighbors, Apple TV+ review - in every dr...

It had begun to seem that Jon Hamm, whatever other roles he might appear in, was destined to be forever remembered exclusively as Mad Men...

Goldberg Variations, Ólafsson, Wigmore Hall review - Bach in...

Víkingur Ólafsson had something to prove at the Wigmore Hall. And prove it he did, even if, this time, his Goldberg Variations left a few features...

Shanghai Dolls, Kiln Theatre review - fascinating slice of h...

The writer Amy Ng has made a sterling effort in digging up the true story behind her new play at the Kiln, Shanghai Dolls, but...

Mahler's Ninth, BBC Philharmonic, Gamzou, Bridgewater H...

There was a change of conductor from the one advertised for this BBC Philharmonic performance at the Bridgewater Hall – but the one who we heard...

Manhunt, Royal Court review - terrifyingly toxic masculinity...

Are we really in “a new era of male anger, societal discontent and rage”? This is what...

Album: Rhiannon Giddens & Justin Robinson - What Did the...

At a time when the powers that sadly be in America are trying their damnedest to erase and rewrite history, the latest release from Rhiannon...

St Matthew Passion, Dunedin Consort, Butt, Queen’s Hall, Edi...

I was in Germany last week, and nearly every town I went to was advertising a St Matthew or a St John Passion taking place in the week up to...

Midnight Cowboy, Southwark Playhouse - new musical cannot es...

It seems a bizarre idea. Take a pivotal film in American culture that reset the perception of The Great American Dream at this,...