Book Review
Turning Turner’s Legacy
“Turner and the Slave Trade” recasts Romanticism’s relationship to nature and landscape painting as a vehicle for colonial propaganda.
J.M.W. Turner
Film Review
Turner and Constable Hit the Screen
The camera glides smoothly over landscapes of old England in a film that tries hard to dramatize the rivalry between the two masters.
Art Review
Turner and Constable Face Off in London
Is there any real rivalry in Tate Britain’s Turner & Constable: Rivals & Originals, or is it a PR exercise to lure us through the door?
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.
Interview
John Akomfrah Discusses Channeling J.M.W. Turner and Disasters at Sea
“The Deluge,” a monumental Turner painting showing a Biblical flood, is currently paired with Akomfrah’s “Vertigo Sea” at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.
Art
Sondra Perry's First Solo European Show Engulfs Visitors in Turner's "The Slave Ship"
Typhoon Coming On challenges visitors to consider the UK’s complicity in the dehumanisation of black people.
Art
An Artist’s Light-Filled Tribute to J.M.W. Turner
In Ellen Harvey’s Nostalgia, the spiritual and the secular converge into a beatific, nature-based sublime.
Art
A Luminous Look at Turner's Port Paintings
An exhibition at the Frick Collection unites for the first time three of J.M.W. Turner's 1820s port paintings, created in an age of newly open borders in Europe.
Art
J.M.W. Turner's Unloved Late Paintings; or, The Whales
Some days ago — never mind the count — having not much purpose in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and nothing in its galleries otherwise to interest me, I thought I would wander a little and found myself in the most watery part of the institution.
In Brief
J.M.W. Turner to Light Up the British £20 Note
J.M.W. Turner, the great English landscape painter who obsessed over light, will be featured on the new £20 banknote in the UK.
Art
The Met Breuer Traces the Unfinished to the Deliberately Incomplete in Western Art
At a press preview earlier this month, Sheena Wagstaff, the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s chairwoman for modern and contemporary art, said that “arguably only the Met” could put on a show like Unfinished: Thoughts Left Visible.
News
Crimes of the Art
On this week’s art crime blotter: Brigitte Bardot goes after artist for using her image, tourists snap naked group photo on sacred Malaysian mountain, and Russia crucifies trash Jesus.