Exhibitions
What a tease
Perhaps the greatest irony of many in this first solo London show of Sarah Lucas is that it is sponsored…
Early flowering
Emilio Greco (1913–95) is considered to be one of Italy’s most important modern sculptors, and certainly he was a successful…
The good and the ugly
The Watts Gallery, just outside Guildford off the Hog’s Back, is a delightful place to visit at any season, with…
Wizards of Oz
Astonishingly, the last major survey show of Australian art in this country was mounted more than half-a-century ago. Then it…
Prophet of modern design
In the Musée du Cinquantenaire, a grand gallery on the green edge of Brussels, those bureaucratic Belgians are welcoming home…
Gut feelings
Like all artists of independent spirit, David Tress (born 1955) resists categorisation. He has been called a Romantic and a…
Root and branch
A mixed exhibition of paintings, drawings and prints devoted to the subject of the tree might sound an unexciting event,…
Ways of the world
The popular conception of Dame Laura Knight is of an energetic woman piling on the paint in the back of…
The magic of Munnings
Sir Alfred Munnings (1878–1959) did himself a grave and lasting disservice when he publicly attacked modern art in a bibulous…
A long hard look
My wife says you can always tell a self-portrait by the quality of its self-regard. There’s something about the eyes…
Political power
Revolution shook Mexico between 1910 and 1920, but radical political change was not mirrored in the art of the period.…
Summer focus
In 1929, Samuel Courtauld owned the most important collection of works by Paul Gauguin in England: five paintings, ten woodcuts…
Sculptural rhythms
One generation is usually so busy reacting against its predecessors that it can take years for a balanced appreciation of…
Proud to be British
There has been much positive comment about the rehang of the Tate’s permanent collection, which sees a welcome return to…
Visual feast
This exhibition was dreamt up by David Boyd Haycock, a freelance writer and curator, following the success of a book…
Back in print
As more time elapses since the regrettable fracas over Kitaj’s 1994 Tate exhibition and his tragic suicide in 2007, he…
Master bedroom
What exactly are the ‘secrets of the royal bedchamber’? That the actual bed was seldom if ever slept in let…
Shape shifting
Eduardo Chillida (1924–2002) is one of the greatest of modern sculptors yet curiously little known in this country. The last…
