Art
Surrealism’s Unfinished Business
The art of the collagiste is essentially the art of the scavenger, the opportunistic thief.
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
Cecily Brown Crashes the House of Churchill
What will she make of the fabled greatness of the English past?
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An Old Painter Stares at His Hands
Georg Baselitz reflects on his own aging hands through the prism of all the art he has seen.
Books
New Art Books for the New Season
An autumnal offering of Artemisia Gentileschi, Dorothea Tanning, Henri Matisse, and Guston galore, among much, much else.
Art
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.
Art
What’s So Hard About Painting Shakespeare?
Many paintings of Shakespearean scenes feel mawkish or literal-minded, flat-footed or lacking in emotional depth.
Books
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.
Books
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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Shiva the Inscrutable
Shiva dances a dance of sheer bliss.
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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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Egregious Renaissance Maleness, From the Inside Out
An up-close look at the codpiece.