Beverley Knowles

Sadie Hennessy, Strange Hungers at WW Gallery - 10 July

There's a notion within certain segments of the contemporary art community that in order to be 'seriou...... read more

The Wounded Tulip - Georgie Hopton at Poppy Sebire - 23 May

The tulips at Poppy Sebire are certainly not excitable, despite the bold spring day streaming into A...... read more

Ron Mueck at Hauser and Wirth - 23 April

A six-foot chicken hangs upside down from the ceiling by a meat hook. Its throat has been cut and i...... read more

Katie Paterson - 100 Billion Suns at Haunch of Venison, Fitzrovia - 20 March

I used to love Katie Paterson's work. I (and more or less the entire art appreciating cosmos) ador...... read more

Yayoi Kusama at Tate Modern - 23 February

“My desire was to predict and measure the infinity of the unbounded universe, from my own positi...... read more

Zarina Bhimji at the Whitechapel Gallery - 20 January

Between 1971 and 1979 Idi Amin's tyrannical despotism over Uganda killed an estimated 500,000 peop...... read more

Bridget Smith at Frith Street Gallery - 19 December

Expectation is rarely a helpful viewing companion when visiting an exhibition. On the other hand, o...... read more

The Future Queen of the Screen at ROLLO Gallery - 15 November

Newsflash folks... Feminism is cool! And the best thing is that a Feminist doesn't have to be this way...... read more

Phyllida Barlow - Rig at Hauser and Wirth, Piccadilly - 28 September

Occasionally I go to an exhibition so pertinent I'm agog to tell everyone about it. Phyllida Barlow ...... read more

Evan Holloway, Rose Wylie at The Approach - 12 September

It must be strange to find yourself seventy-six, you've had three hip replacements and four childr...... read more

Diary of a thirty-something art dealer - Madame Yevonde / Neeta Madahar - 29 June

I’ve lately developed a healthy obsession for the Greeks. Ancient that is, not modern. Bloodbat...... read more

Diary of a thirty-something Art Dealer - Ida Applebroog - 21 March

I spent last week in silence in Sussex meditating six hours a day. On Friday I came back to London a...... read more

Marcus Coates - The Trip at Serpentine Gallery - 9 March

I’m trying to write about Marcus Coates again but I’m finding it almost impossible. Eve...... read more

Diary of a thirty-something Art Dealer - Edward Burdis at Max Wigram - 1 March

I'm in the Hamburger Kunsthalle as I write, the museum that Pop Life travelled to after its stay at Ta...... read more

Diary of a thirty-something Art Dealer - Martin Creed - 8 February

I've decided I spend far too much time thinking. Or rather, not that I spend too much time thinking &nda...... read more

Diary of a thirty-something Art Dealer - Gabriel Orozco at Tate Modern - 24 January

Gabriel Orozco is ‘lightweight’ apparently. According to Jackie Wullschlager in the FT ...... read more

Diary of a thirty-something Art Dealer - Handbags and Vyner Street - 18 January

I found out this week that somebody I had thought felt some love towards me, even if was only just...... read more

Diary of a thirty-something Art Dealer - Cindy Sherman at Spruth Magers - 13 January

Having to queue up to get into a commercial gallery for a Tuesday night private view is a slightly tireso...... read more

Diary of a thirty-something Art Dealer - As You Like It - 6 December

Finally, I am a convert to Shakespeare. Finally, I do believe, I’m starting to get it. Which ...... read more

Diary of a thirty-something Art Dealer - Deptford X - 28 September

Some pleasant things happen and some unpleasant things happen. My back has stopped hurting, but the intern...... read more

Diary of a thirty-something Art Dealer - Mike Nelson's Coral Reef at Tate Britain - 16 September

How bizarre when you're actually in an immersive installation and someone with a heavy South Americ...... read more

Diary of a thirty-something Art Dealer - Buddhafield - 3 August

I bumped into an art dealer acquaintance of mine in South Ken this morning. I was tottering out of t...... read more

Diary of a thirty-something Art Dealer - Leigh Ledare - 3 August

I got a bootie call last night. I'm fairly sure that's what it was, although I haven't had one befo...... read more

Diary of a thirty-something Art Dealer - Ernesto Neto - 5 July

"It takes a long time for a mouse to realise he's in a trap. But once he does, something inside him nev...... read more

Diary of a thirty-something Art Dealer - Goldsmiths - 22 June

Herewith a labour of love comes to you from under the duvet, from whence I am planning on never emergi...... read more

Diary of a thirty-something Art Dealer - London, Hamburg, Berlin, Porto Fino - 14 June

A mortification has occurred. I just sent a text message to the wrong person. Sent it to the friend...... read more

Diary of a thirty-something Art Dealer - Lisa Yuskavage - 17 May

I’m struggling to understand what it is I find so moving about Lisa Yuskavage’s paintin...... read more

Diary of a thirty-something Art Dealer - Roisin Byrne - 4 May

The vicar’s got a puncture. On bank holiday Monday. What this seems to mean is that we can&rsq...... read more

Diary of a thirty-something Art Dealer - Paris - 21 April

I used to think Paris a bit overrated. I can't really remember why now. Too many art history coach tri...... read more

Diary of a thirty-something Art Dealer - Bharti Kher - 12 April

I'm just back from the Buddhist Kingdom of Cambodia. Upon my return one of the first pieces of art wo...... read more

Diary of a thirty-something Art Dealer - Elton John vs Gary Hume - 4 March

I've always tended to think of Elton John as something of a twat. But all that's changed on the ba...... read more

Diary of a thirty-something Art Dealer - Katja Strunz @ Camden Arts Centre - 26 February

I found myself last night at an amateur poetry recital and music evening in a bar on the corner of Bounda...... read more

Diary of a thirty-something Art Dealer - ICA to close? - 1 February

Rumour has crystallised into copy – blood on the walls and one foot in the grave – the ICA...... read more

Diary of a thirty-something Art Dealer - Earth: Art of a Changing World - 25 January

I went to the dentist this morning for the first time in four and a half years. There’s a new o...... read more

Diary of a thirty-something Art Dealer - Design Real - 22 January

You know when you’ve spent too long looking at a bright object it seems to burn itself onto yo...... read more

Diary of a thirty-something Art Dealer - London Art Fair - 15 January

I have a friend who runs a yard. A horse yard. As such, she has, naturellement, a plethora of doggi...... read more

Diary of a thirty-something Art Dealer - Kevin Harman and Collective Gallery - 21 December

Collective Gallery, Edinburgh I got a newsletter through last week from a yoga guru chappie I retre...... read more

Diary of a thirty-something Art Dealer - The Turner Prize - 14 December

It's a staggering thing that a person can write 600 words a week on the subject of radio programmes a...... read more

Diary of a thirty-something Art Dealer - The Turner Prize - 14 December

It's a staggering thing that a person can write 600 words a week on the subject of radio programmes a...... read more

Diary of a thirty-something Art Dealer - Me and Orson Welles - 9 December

I heard yesterday from a dear girlfriend who, I now discover, is a rubbish source of Hoxton / Hollywo...... read more

Diary of a thirty-something Art Dealer - Me and Orson Welles - 9 December

I heard yesterday from a dear girlfriend who, I now discover, is a rubbish source of Hoxton / Hollywo...... read more

Diary of a thirty-something Art Dealer - at the National Gallery - 7 December

London-based art dealer and consultant Beverley Knowles spends an afternoon at the National Gallery....... read more

Diary of a thirty-something Art Dealer - Anish Kapoor / Pop Life - 1 December

Newsflash (not): sex sells! Advertisers, marketeers, business people, basically everyone except Mary...... read more

Diary of a thirty-something Art Dealer - Miroslaw Balka - 26 November

The Miroslaw Balka link on the Tate website is a very irritating piece of over-engineering. Tate consistently...... read more

Diary of a thirty-something Art Dealer - 16 November

This article comes courtesy of London-based art dealer and consultant Beverley Knowles. I read last nigh...... read more

Diary of a thirty-something Art Dealer - 26 October

This article comes courtesy of London-based art dealer and consultant Beverley Knowles. I thought i...... read more

Diary of a thirty-something Art Dealer - 26 October

This article comes courtesy of London-based art dealer and consultant Beverley Knowles. The good thin...... read more

Diary of a thirty-something Art Dealer - 1 October

This article comes courtesy of London-based art dealer and consultant Beverley Knowles. There was a squirr...... read more

Diary of a thirty-something Art Dealer - 28 July

This article comes courtesy of London-based art dealer and consultant Beverley Knowles. 'What's neede...... read more

Diary of a thirty-something Art Dealer - 8 July

This article comes courtesy of London-based art dealer and consultant Beverley Knowles. The only proble...... read more

Diary of a thirty-something Art Dealer - 23 June

This article comes courtesy of London-based art dealer and consultant Beverley Knowles. I Google therefor...... read more

Diary of a thirty-something Art Dealer - 16 June

This article comes courtesy of London-based art dealer and consultant Beverley Knowles. It's the Grea...... read more

Diary of a thirty-something Art Dealer - 27 May

This article comes courtesy of London-based art dealer and consultant Beverley Knowles. Galleries aroun...... read more

Diary of a thirty-something Art Dealer - 11 May

This article comes courtesy of London-based art dealer and consultant Beverley Knowles. Gorgeous Elli...... read more

Diary of a thirty-something Art Dealer - 8 April

This article comes courtesy of West London gallery-owner Beverley Knowles. I learned something abou...... read more

Diary of a thirty-something Art Dealer - 26 March

This article comes courtesy of West London gallery-owner Beverley Knowles. I heard David Beckham interviewe...... read more

Diary of a thirty-something Art Dealer - Altermodern - 9 March

This article comes courtesy of West London gallery-owner Beverley Knowles. Altermodern: aka the Fourt...... read more

Diary of a thirty-something Art Dealer - 27 February

This article comes courtesy of West London gallery-owner Beverley Knowles. I'm reading Jung at the moment...... read more

Diary of a thirty-something Art Dealer - 3 February

This article comes courtesy of West London gallery-owner Beverley Knowles. However many times I mop the...... read more

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