Exhibitions

‘The Caged Bird’s Song’, 2014–2017, by Chris Ofili

Put a spell on you

6 May 2017 9:00 am

Many of the mediums from which art is made have been around for a long time. People have been painting…

‘Rainstorm over the sea’, 1824–28, by John Constable © Royal Academy of Arts, London; Photographer: John Hammond

Constable on sea

22 April 2017 9:00 am

John Constable was, as we say these days, conflicted about Brighton. On the one hand, as he wrote in a…

Frankly dreadful: ‘The Renaissance of Venus’, 1877, by Walter Crane

The good, the indifferent and the simply awful

14 April 2017 11:00 pm

‘There is only one thing worse than homosexual art,’ the painter Patrick Procktor was once heard to declare at a…

Silver Hut, 1984, by Toyo Ito

Home is where the art is

8 April 2017 9:00 am

The house in which I lived in Tokyo was built by my landlady, a former geisha. It stood on a…

A word in your ear

1 April 2017 9:00 am

Do you, or do you not, fork out for an audioguide — one of those necklace-like, strappy contraptions you’re offered…

‘Schicksalslinien/Be-Ziehungen VIII’ (‘Lines of Fate’/’Re-lations VIII’), 1994, by Maria Lassnig

Cut it out

1 April 2017 9:00 am

How do you make a work of art? One method is to cut things up and stick them back together…

‘Boy falling from a window’, 1592, Italy, Naples (possibly)

Home help

11 March 2017 9:00 am

There have been many explanations for what happened in the Italian Renaissance. Some stress the revival of classical antiquity, others…

‘Boy falling from a window’, 1592, Italy, Naples (possibly)

Home help

9 March 2017 3:00 pm

There have been many explanations for what happened in the Italian Renaissance. Some stress the revival of classical antiquity, others…

‘Iguazu’, 2010, by Wolfgang Tillmans

Snap happy

4 March 2017 9:00 am

These days the world is experiencing an unprecedented overload of photographs, a global glut of pictures. More and more are…

‘Iguazu’, 2010, by Wolfgang Tillmans

Snap happy

2 March 2017 3:00 pm

These days the world is experiencing an unprecedented overload of photographs, a global glut of pictures. More and more are…

‘Allegro Moderato Fireman’s Parade’ (from the Calcium of Light portfolio), 1974–76, by Eduardo Paolozzi

On the make

23 February 2017 3:00 pm

Rudolfo Paolozzi was a great maker. In the summer, he worked almost without stopping in the family’s ice-cream shop, making…

‘Gas’, 1940, by Edward Hopper

American psyche

23 February 2017 3:00 pm

The latest exhibition at the Royal Academy is entitled America after the Fall. It deals with painting in the United…

‘Gas’, 1940, by Edward Hopper

American psyche

23 February 2017 3:00 pm

The latest exhibition at the Royal Academy is entitled America after the Fall. It deals with painting in the United…

‘Allegro Moderato Fireman’s Parade’ (from the Calcium of Light portfolio), 1974–76, by Eduardo Paolozzi

On the make

23 February 2017 3:00 pm

Rudolfo Paolozzi was a great maker. In the summer, he worked almost without stopping in the family’s ice-cream shop, making…

‘Peasants’, c.1930, by Kazimir Malevich

The good, the bad and the ugly

18 February 2017 9:00 am

Vladimir Putin notoriously declared the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1989 to be one of the greatest disasters of…

‘Peasants’, c.1930, by Kazimir Malevich

The good, the bad and the ugly

16 February 2017 3:00 pm

Vladimir Putin notoriously declared the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1989 to be one of the greatest disasters of…

Sunny delight

11 February 2017 9:00 am

No Californian could have painted Hockney’s pools. No La-La Land artist, raised on sun and orange juice, would have done…

‘Ossie Wearing a Fairisle Sweater’, 1970, by David Hockney

Sunny delight

9 February 2017 3:00 pm

No Californian could have painted Hockney’s pools. No La-La Land artist, raised on sun and orange juice, would have done…

Seeing everything in black and white

4 February 2017 9:00 am

Two divergent approaches to printmaking are on view in an exhibition of graphic work by Francis Bacon and Lucian Freud…

‘Eli’, 2002, by Lucian Freud

Seeing everything in black and white

2 February 2017 3:00 pm

Two divergent approaches to printmaking are on view in an exhibition of graphic work by Francis Bacon and Lucian Freud…

Great leaps forward

21 January 2017 9:00 am

In the 1940s Lucian Freud took another young painter, Sandra Blow, up to the top of a bombed church in…

‘Breakwater’, 1994, by Sandra Blow

Great leaps forward

19 January 2017 3:00 pm

In the 1940s Lucian Freud took another young painter, Sandra Blow, up to the top of a bombed church in…

Shape shifter

14 January 2017 9:00 am

Victor Pasmore once told me how he greeted Pablo Picasso at Victoria station. The great man had come to Britain…

‘Spiral Motif in Green, Violet, Blue and Gold: The Coast of the Inland Sea’, 1950, by Victor Pasmore

Shape shifter

12 January 2017 3:00 pm

Victor Pasmore once told me how he greeted Pablo Picasso at Victoria station. The great man had come to Britain…

Ways of seeing

7 January 2017 9:00 am

‘Radical’ is like ‘creative’, a word that has been enfeebled to the point of meaninglessness. Everybody seems to want to…