Art
Picasso, Paper Monster
Paper, in short, was at one with Picasso's nature.
Michael Glover
Michael Glover is a Sheffield-born, Cambridge-educated, London-based poet, art critic, and poetry editor of The Tablet. He has written regularly for the Independent, the Financial Times, and the Economist, and was a London correspondent for ARTNews.
Art
Tiepolo, Once Dubbed the Greatest Painter in Venice, Gets a Retrospective
For Tiepolo: The Best Painter of Venice, the Staatsgalerie in Stuttgart has gathered together much of the artist’s finest work, including a choice selection of his portraits and many of his paintings on religious, historical, and mythological themes.
Art
Cowboys, Curators, and Finicky-Fingered Mincers
As fairly customary, Glen Baxter is taking a tilt at the absurdities of the fuzzy, whizzy showbizyness of the art world.
Art
A Private Memoir, Pried Open
Charlotte Salomon’s Life? Or Theater? is the story of a difficult and painful redemption through art.
Art
Jessica Dismorr Is Getting Her Due, 80 Years Too Late
There is much to praise about Radical Women: Jessica Dismorr and her Contemporaries, and there is not a little to regret.
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Kiefer Overbrims His World
Anselm Kiefer draws down the world upon his shoulders in a mood of what can only be described as apocalyptic excess.
Art
Lucian Freud’s Shadow Self
As a displaced refugee, Freud knew he would always be something of a stranger to himself, but how much would he ever wish to know of himself?
Art
Paintings by the Famous, the Forgotten, and the Emerging
Two exhibitions explore the work of three painters in a chain of influence: Alan Davie, David Hockney, and Christina Quarles.
Books
A Peek Into Some of the Best Art Books of 2019
Paula Rego, John Ruskin, Donald Judd, Lucian Freud, Hokusai, and, yes, Leonardo da Vinci.
Art
When the West Dreamt of Odalisques
Inspired by the East: How the Islamic World Influenced Western Art is a giant teaching aid of a fairly solid and dependable kind, but one that does not quite push far enough.
Art
When Leonardo da Vinci Just Isn’t Enough
Leonardo’s “Virgin” meets virtual reality — simpleminded in the extreme.
Art
Caravaggio and Bernini, Together at Last
We could call this exhibition a battle of the swaggerers.