Art
Rachel Whiteread’s White Blight
Whiteread has made two full-size structures over the course of the lockdown that suggest a candid act of emotional unburdening.
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
Artworks Orbiting the Thinking of Hannah Arendt
Eight shows over the course of a year loosely explore the eight chapters of Arendt’s 1968 book, Between Past and Future."
Art
Gilbert & George, Full of Themselves Again
How should we take all this buffoonery? In part, it looks like satire. But what exactly are they poking fun at?
Art
Thomas Gainsborough’s Quietly Passionate Portrait
Margaret Gainsborough was a woman who knew her own worth.
Art
Dante: Our Medieval Contemporary
Why is Dante the Florentine still present with us 700 years after his death?
Art
The Melancholy Marriage of Tracey Emin and Edvard Munch
What do Emin and Munch have in common other than a burning desire to embrace, and be defined by, the miseries of life?
Art
The Silence of Lynette Yiadom-Boakye
Looking at Yiadom-Boakye’s portraits is an act of slow discovery, the unveiling of a mystery.
Books
Does Anyone Believe in Sculpture?
In "Shaping the World: Sculpture from Prehistory to Now," the issue crying out to be addressed is: where will sculpture go next?
Art
J.M.W. Turner, the Modern
A show at Tate Britain underscores Turner as the great recorder of elemental disorder and industrial pollution on the grand scale.
Books
Some of the Best Art Books of 2020
Abstractions, illusions, DIY concoctions, museums touting their collections, and other holiday confections.
Art
The Crude, Exhilarating, Watery Worlds of Alfred Wallis
Wallis tore up the rule book and pointed a way forward for British painting.
Art
What Is Bruce Nauman for?
It is neither easy nor especially relaxing to spend time with Nauman.