Georg Baselitz reflects on his own aging hands through the prism of all the art he has seen.
Michael Glover
Michael Glover is a Sheffield-born, Cambridge-educated, London-based poet and art critic, and poetry editor of The Tablet. He has written regularly for the Independent, the Times, the Financial Times, the New Statesman and the Economist. He has also been a London correspondent for ARTNews, New York. His latest books are: Late Days (2018), Hypothetical May Morning (2018), Neo Rauch (2019), The Book of Extremities (2019), What You Do With Days (2019) and John Ruskin: a dictionary (2019).
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New Art Books for the New Season
An autumnal offering of Artemisia Gentileschi, Dorothea Tanning, Henri Matisse, and Guston galore, among much, much else.
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The Crafting of an Art Critic
How did I learn to judge between one work and another? By looking and reading and looking and reading and looking.
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What’s So Hard About Painting Shakespeare?
Many paintings of Shakespearean scenes feel mawkish or literal-minded, flat-footed or lacking in emotional depth.
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Van Gogh and the Books He Loved
To Vincent, books were calls to action, lessons in life.
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A Fleeting Glimpse of Francesca Woodman
Woodman was one of the 20th century’s great surrealists.
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What Are Exhibition Catalogues for?
No exhibition of any pretension is complete without lasting proof of its existence, preferably in print on coated paper.
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Paul Klee, When the World Went Dark
The Nazis had transformed Klee’s beloved land of Goethe and Mozart into an alien and threatening environment.
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Botticelli’s Perfect Beauty
A new series explores intimate encounters with a single work of art. This week, we look at Sandro Botticelli’s “Paradiso” (1480–1495).
