Exhibitions

‘Group with Parasols’, c.1904, by John Singer Sargent

Easy does it

21 February 2015 9:00 am

The artist Malcolm Morley once fantasised about a magazine that would be devoted to the practice of painting just as…

Christ of the coal mines

14 February 2015 9:00 am

William Cook reports from the sooty netherworld that made an artist of Vincent Van Gogh

Sound and vision: spectators watch Polly Harvey in a glass box recording her new album

Art of noise

14 February 2015 9:00 am

The album is not what it was. It still exists, in record collections, as part of the torrential streaming of…

‘Woman at Her Toilette’, 1875/80, by Berthe Morisot

Strokes of genius

3 January 2015 9:00 am

The art on show over the coming year demonstrates that we still live in an age of mighty painters, says Martin Gayford

Bloody Vikings

10 August 2013 9:00 am

Forget that guff about peaceful farmers with an interest in travel