"Though they were created for comic books, the artist’s horny and hilarious drawings of his own neuroses, and of glamazons in thigh-high boots, are unnervingly powerful on gallery walls"

— The Guardian

"More than four decades on, Goldin’s louche lovers, waxwork royals, divorcing Mexicans and frightening wallpaper feel uncannily present – normal even."

— The Guardian

"Facing West is a good subtitle. Although there are cowboys and farmhands aplenty, these photographs do not romanticise the West: there are no tumbleweeds, saddles or tobacco. Avedon’s subjects are confrontational, tired and often smeared with the grime of dangerous hard labour. This was not Avedon’s first rodeo when it came to probing the fissures at the heart of American culture; he was also photographing radicals and protesters in the same style."

— The Standard

"When she's on song her works have a larky life of their own. The duds, however, outnumber the triumphs. Often, there's a sense that a Christmas cracker has been pulled. The painting goes off with a bang… then nothing falls out."

— The Times

"There’s no escape from the torments of the past in this show, which celebrates the German artist at his most Wagnerian, enchanting and sickening you simultaneously"

— The Guardian