Exhibitions
Shock and awe
Alexander McQueen may have been a prat but at least he was an interesting one, says Shura Slater
The power of nightmares
It is not impossible to create good art that makes a political point, just highly unusual. Goya’s ‘Third of May’…
Monet maker
When it was suggested that a huge exhibition of Impressionist paintings should be held in London, Claude Monet had his…
Tate Britain
Things have not been happy at Tate Britain for some time. Last year Waldemar Januszczak wrote an article culminating with…
Russia with love
They’re doing fantastic deals on five-star hotels in St Petersburg the weekend the Francis Bacon exhibition opens at the Hermitage.…
Easy does it
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
William Cook reports from the sooty netherworld that made an artist of Vincent Van Gogh
Art of noise
The album is not what it was. It still exists, in record collections, as part of the torrential streaming of…
Strokes of genius
The art on show over the coming year demonstrates that we still live in an age of mighty painters, says Martin Gayford
Bloody Vikings
Forget that guff about peaceful farmers with an interest in travel
