Paintbrushes at the ready
When the old curmudgeon Edgar Degas died in 1917, a stunning trove of works by Edouard Manet — eight paintings,…
Preaching in pictures
To call Nils Büttner a killjoy is perhaps a little unfair, but not very. The professor at Stuttgart’s State Academy…
Life’s rich collage
Such is the veneration in this country for the St Ives school of painters, it’s easy to forget that other…
Self-portrait as Margaret Thatcher in a pink power-suit — by Grayson Perry
Well, he’s back. Though you’d be forgiven for thinking he’d never been away. Fresh from delivering the Reith lectures, exhibitions…
If you hate art-world show-offs, Grayson Perry, what's with the frocks?
At the time it was all too easy to get sucked in by the hype. In 2013, Grayson Perry was…
The lost Victorian who sculpted Churchill
Ivor Roberts-Jones was in many ways the right artist at the wrong time. Had the sculptor been born a few…
