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    • Saturday, 20 May, 2023
      ReviewVisual Arts
      Gwen John, Pallant House — painting herself into the picture

      An enlightening retrospective brings out the artist’s paradox of reticence and desire

    • Friday, 5 May, 2023
      ReviewArts books
      Art is Magic by Jeremy Deller — visions of a very British shaman

      An art memoir that crackles with humour and anti-establishment rage

    • Saturday, 22 April, 2023
      InterviewVisual Arts
      Artist Isaac Julien: ‘You have to change the top brass’

      Ahead of a Tate survey of his work, the Londoner explains what is wrong with British film and what he prefers about the US

    • Thursday, 23 February, 2023
      ReviewVisual Arts
      Alice Neel, Barbican — sharp portraits get under the skin

      The American artist offered intimate glimpses of friends and elevated the powerless

    • Saturday, 11 February, 2023
      Visual Arts
      Curator Hammad Nasar: ‘What if all Turner’s best paintings were in Lahore?’

      His latest show in Coventry addresses difficult colonial histories with an alternative take on art in the UK

    • Thursday, 1 September, 2022
      Visual Arts
      Ai Weiwei’s La Commedia Umana — a tribute to the ‘ultimate freedom’

      The dissident artist on his remarkable Venetian exhibition, his mortality, and the complicity of capitalism in China

    • Monday, 15 August, 2022
      ReviewVisual Arts
      Mondrian Evolution at Fondation Beyeler — a masterly line-up from the master of lines

      The show meticulously teases out how Piet Mondrian went from austere landscapes to revolutionary abstract art

    • Friday, 22 July, 2022
      ObituaryClaes Oldenburg
      Claes Oldenburg, Pop artist, 1929-2022

      His supersized sculptures of spoons and ice cream cones combined consumerist pleasure and intellectual irreverence

    • Tuesday, 19 July, 2022
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      Heroes of abstract art at the Fondation Maeght challenge tyranny and turmoil

      The works of Calder, Fontana and Dubuffet stem from postwar despair but speak to today’s existential questions

    • Thursday, 16 June, 2022
      InterviewVisual Arts
      Artist Nadia Kaabi-Linke on recovering Ukrainian stories suppressed by Russia

      The damage inflicted on works during the Soviet era is at the heart of the Tunisian-Ukrainian’s ‘Blindstrom’ project

    • Wednesday, 11 May, 2022
      ReviewVisual Arts
      Gormley, Fontana and Scarpa in Venice — review: tranquil and transcendent

      An exhibition in a former Olivetti showroom collapses the boundaries between space and time, art and architecture

    • Tuesday, 26 April, 2022
      ReviewVisual Arts
      Parmigianino at the Courtauld Gallery, London — miraculous master of drawing

      The Renaissance artist made his name with pictures perfect in every fine detail

    • Thursday, 14 April, 2022
      Visual Arts
      Venetians vent their anger at Biennale land takeover

      The historic Arsenale is being divided between the festival and the navy but locals deserve better

    • Tuesday, 8 March, 2022
      ReviewVisual Arts
      Carlo Crivelli — Renaissance master who challenged God

      Birmingham’s Ikon Gallery celebrates an artist who created his own universe by breaking pictorial and religious traditions

    • Monday, 21 February, 2022
      ReviewVisual Arts
      British Art Show 9 finds healing in troubled times

      The exhibition, now touring to Wolverhampton, draws on national scandals and personal struggles

    • Friday, 18 February, 2022
      ReviewVisual Arts
      Bice Lazzari at the Estorick Collection — symphonies of the spheres

      This exhibition of the neglected abstractionist’s work reveals her minimalist rhythms and subtle grandeur

    • Saturday, 29 January, 2022
      ReviewVisual Arts
      Francis Bacon at the Royal Academy — a painter for our times

      The exhibition brilliantly explores the outrage, suffering and cruelty in his work, now more relevant than ever

    • Thursday, 13 January, 2022
      InterviewVisual Arts
      Shilpa Gupta at the Barbican — voices of persecuted poets

      The Indian artist summons haunting sounds to evoke her concern with freedom of speech

    • Tuesday, 11 January, 2022
      ReviewVisual Arts
      Sutapa Biswas — a pioneering artist of exile, race and resistance

      Her show at Kettle’s Yard in Cambridge draws on her family’s flight from India and the UK’s insular art world

    • Saturday, 18 December, 2021
      ReviewVisual Arts
      The queer magic and rage of Derek Jarman

      Shows in Manchester and Southampton highlight the skill of his films and the friction of his paintings

    • Wednesday, 1 December, 2021
      Visual Arts
      Illicit Northern Irish pub is toast of the Turner Prize

      Array Collective’s installation praised for creating a ‘surprising, immersive and hospitable space’

    • Tuesday, 2 November, 2021
      ReviewBiography and memoir
      Sybil & Cyril by Jenny Uglow — a partnership in print

      The portrait of the artistic pair who powered the Grosvenor School movement is a tale of creativity, love and heartbreak

    • Wednesday, 27 October, 2021
      ReviewVisual Arts
      Jenny Saville in Florence — a Renaissance reclaimed

      The British artist’s mastery of flesh and form rivals that of the Italian masters and, shown side by side, reveals new layers of meaning in both

    • Saturday, 16 October, 2021
      FT Magazine
      Eugenio Dittborn: I’m interested in the anti-portrait

      The Chilean artist discusses the inspiration behind his famous Airmail Paintings

    • Tuesday, 5 October, 2021
      Visual Arts
      The Morozov collection at Fondation Louis Vuitton — Russia’s Silver Age shines again

      The remarkable collection of French and Russian art acquired by two wealthy brothers is on show in Paris

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