Exhibitions

Move fast to snap up one of Elizabeth Blackadder’s sleek cats at the Scottish Gallery

29 July 2023 9:00 am

If there’s one thing the internet knows, it’s that cats sell. The Scottish painter Elizabeth Blackadder, who died in 2021…

The wonders of 18th-century automata

29 July 2023 9:00 am

At the Paris International Exhibition of 1867, Mark Twain was mesmerised by a life-sized silver swan with ‘a living grace…

Huge, impersonal canvases designed for the walls of billionaires: Tate Modern’s Capturing the Moment reviewed

22 July 2023 9:00 am

‘Photography has arrived at a point where it is capable of liberating painting from all literature, from the anecdote, and…

Fascinating forgeries: Art and Artifice – Fakes from the Collection, at the Courtauld, reviewed

15 July 2023 9:00 am

In 1998 curators at the Courtauld Institute received an anonymous phone call informing them that 11 drawings in their collection…

Joshua Reynolds’s revival

1 July 2023 9:00 am

In front of the banner advertising the RA Summer Exhibition, the swagger statue of Sir Joshua Reynolds (1723-92) by Alfred…

Birmingham barbershop meets the Folies-Bergère: Hurvin Anderson’s Salon Paintings, at the Hepworth Wakefield, reviewed

17 June 2023 9:00 am

There’s a nice irony to the title Salon Paintings when the salon in question is a barbershop, an irony that…

The woman who pioneered colour photography

17 June 2023 9:00 am

Hermione Eyre on Yevonde, the pioneering 1930s photographer whose colour portraits evoke a vanishing world

Exceptional career woman, unexceptional painter: Lavinia Fontana, at the National Gallery of Ireland, reviewed

3 June 2023 9:00 am

Reviewing the Prado’s joint exhibition of Sofonisba Anguissola and Lavinia Fontana in the Art Newspaper three years ago, Brian Allen…

Are surgical museums such the Hunterian doomed?

27 May 2023 9:00 am

Margaret Mitchell on the ethics of museums of anatomical specimens

The Georgian fashion revolution

20 May 2023 9:00 am

Normally, when you look at portraits you feel obliged to focus on the sitter. But quite often you’re thinking, ‘Ooh,…

The quiet genius of Gwen John

20 May 2023 9:00 am

In the rush to right the historical gender balance, galleries have been corralling neglected women artists into group exhibitions: the…

‘I love twigs’: botanical painter Emma Tennant interviewed

13 May 2023 9:00 am

Claudia Massie talks to the botanical painter Emma Tennant about grief, finding success later in life, and her love of twigs

Do we need another Lucian Freud exhibition?

22 October 2022 9:00 am

Do we need another Lucian Freud exhibition? After years of exposure to his paintings of naked bodies posed like casualties…

Brilliant and distinctive but also relentless: William Kentridge, at the RA, reviewed

8 October 2022 9:00 am

William Kentridge’s work has a way of sticking in the mind. I can remember all my brief encounters with it,…

Biomorphic forms that tempt the viewer to cop a feel: Maria Bartuszova, at Tate Modern, reviewed

1 October 2022 9:00 am

Art is a fundamentally childish activity: painters dream up images and sculptors play with stuff. It was while playing with…

Fresh and dreamy: Edward Lear, at Ikon Gallery, reviewed

24 September 2022 9:00 am

‘It seems to me that I have to choose between 2 extremes of affection for nature… English, or Southern… The…

When Lee Miller met Picasso

17 September 2022 9:00 am

During the liberation of Paris in August 1944, the photographer Lee Miller made her way to Picasso’s studio on rue…

Promethean grandeur: Maurice Broomfield – Industrial Sublime, at the V&A, reviewed

10 September 2022 9:00 am

When Maurice Broomfield left school at the age of 15, he took a job at the Rolls-Royce factory, bending copper…

There's much more to Winslow Homer than his dramatic seascapes

27 August 2022 9:00 am

Winslow Homer may be too all-American for British tastes but a forthcoming retrospective could change all that, says Laura Gascoigne

Guston is treated with contempt: Philip Guston Now reviewed

20 August 2022 9:00 am

Philip Guston is hard to dislike. The most damning critique levied against the canonical mid-century American painter is that he…

A victory of the imaginatively crafted over the conceptual: In the Black Fantastic reviewed

13 August 2022 9:00 am

‘These artists are offering other ways of seeing,’ says Ekow Eshun, curator of In the Black Fantastic, and from the…

As cool and refreshing as a selection of sorbets: RA's Milton Avery show reviewed

30 July 2022 9:00 am

‘I like the way he puts on paint,’ Milton Avery said about Matisse in 1953, but that was as much…

A showstopper is at the heart of this winning show: Dulwich Gallery's Reframed – The Woman in the Window reviewed

23 July 2022 9:00 am

Themed exhibitions pegged to particular pictures in museum collections tend to be more interesting to the museum’s curators than to…

At her best when lightly ruffling the surfaces of things: Cornelia Parker, at Tate Britain, reviewed

9 July 2022 9:00 am

Cornelia Parker wasn’t born with a silver spoon in her mouth, but when she was growing up her German godparents…

From Leonardo to Hepworth: the art of surgery

9 July 2022 9:00 am

Daisy Dunn on the art of surgery