Contemporary art

Home and away

9 May 2015 9:00 am

An extraordinary black-and-white photograph of a young black boy taken on the Isle of Wight by Julia Margaret Cameron in…

Curators

25 April 2015 9:00 am

As a purveyor of lairy souvenirs Venice outdoes even Lourdes. The scores of shops and booths that peddle this lagoonal…

Left: ‘Dream of a good witch’, c.1819–23, by Goya Right: ‘Bajan niñendo (They descend quarrelling)’, c.1819–23, by Goya

The power of nightmares

14 March 2015 9:00 am

It is not impossible to create good art that makes a political point, just highly unusual. Goya’s ‘Third of May’…

‘Me as Dorothy’ by Grayson Perry —but what’s with the frocks?

All dressed up – and skirting the subject

20 September 2014 9:00 am

At the time it was all too easy to get sucked in by the hype. In 2013, Grayson Perry was…