Sculpture

The French sculptors building the new Statue of Liberty

28 June 2025 9:00 am

At a miserable-looking rally for the centre-left Place Publique in mid-March, its co-president, MEP Raphaël Glucksmann, made international headlines calling…

How do you exhibit living deities?

14 June 2025 9:00 am

The most-watched TV programme in human history isn’t the Moon landings, and it isn’t M*A*S*H; chances are it’s Ramayan, a…

Fascinating royal clutter: The Edwardians, at The King’s Gallery, reviewed

31 May 2025 9:00 am

The Royal Collection Trust has had a rummage in the attic and produced a fascinating show. Displayed in the palatial…

The polarising poet, sculptor and ‘avant-gardener’ who maintained a private militia

26 April 2025 9:00 am

Not many artists engage in the maintenance of a private militia, and it seems fair to assume that those who…

A dreamy, if overly ambitious show: Silk Roads, at the British Museum, reviewed

4 January 2025 9:00 am

Towards the end of the British Museum’s Silk Roads show, there is a selection of treasures found in England. Among…

How a single year in Florence changed art forever

2 November 2024 9:00 am

The story goes that one day early in the 16th century Leonardo da Vinci was strolling through Florence with a…

The art inspired by the 1924 Paris Olympics was a very mixed bag

28 September 2024 9:00 am

George Orwell took a dim view of competitive sport; he found the idea that ‘running, jumping and kicking a ball…

Why has Leonora Carrington still not had a big exhibition?

7 September 2024 9:00 am

‘It had nothing to endow it with the title of studio at all,’ was Edward James’s first impression of Leonora…

This British surrealist is a revelation

10 August 2024 9:00 am

When the 15-year-old Maggi Hambling arrived at Benton End in Hadleigh, Suffolk – home of the East Anglian School of…

How a market town in Hampshire shaped Peggy Guggenheim

27 July 2024 9:00 am

On 24 April 1937 Marguerite Guggenheim – known as Peggy – of Yew Tree Cottage, Hurst was booked by a…

Beguiling: Yinka Shonibare, at the Serpentine Galleries, reviewed

18 May 2024 9:00 am

More than seven centuries ago, the medieval cartographer Richard of Haldingham created Hereford Cathedral’s Mappa Mundi; I say ‘created’ because…

The latest Venice Biennale is ideologically and aesthetically bankrupt

27 April 2024 9:00 am

Last week’s opening of the 60th edition of the Venice Biennale marks a watershed for the art world. In much…

How Philip Guston became a hero to a new generation of figurative painters

21 October 2023 9:00 am

Why do painters represent things? There was a time when the answers seemed obvious. Art glorified power, earthly and divine,…

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…

The uncomfortable lessons of the new Fourth Plinth statues

10 September 2022 9:00 am

Alexander Chula on the uncomfortable lessons of the new Fourth Plinth statues

A mess: British Museum's Feminine Power – the Divine to the Demonic reviewed

4 June 2022 9:00 am

The point at which the heart sinks in this exhibition is, unfortunately, right at the outset. That’s where we meet…

The jewel-bright, mesmerisingly detailed pictures by Raqib Shaw are a revelation

21 May 2022 9:00 am

Describing the Venice Biennale, like pinning down the city itself, is a practical impossibility. There is just too much of…

Valuable reassessment of British art: Barbican's Postwar Modern reviewed

19 March 2022 9:00 am

Notoriously, the past is another country: what’s more, it’s a terrain for which the guidebooks need constantly to be rewritten.…

Beautiful and revealing: The Three Pietàs of Michelangelo, at the Museo dell’Opera del Duomo, Florence, reviewed

5 March 2022 9:00 am

The room is immersed in semi-darkness. Light filters down from above, glistening on polished marble as if it were flesh.…

Saudi Arabia’s burgeoning art scene

5 March 2022 9:00 am

Stuart Jeffries on Saudi Arabia’s burgeoning art scene

Part-gothic horror, part-Acorn Antiques: Louise Bourgeois, at the Hayward Gallery, reviewed

19 February 2022 9:00 am

Louise Bourgeois was 62 and recently widowed when she first used soft materials in her installation ‘The Destruction of the…

Only time will tell if there’ll be a Great Pandemic Novel

9 October 2021 9:00 am

We had been dreading it like (forgive me) the plague: the inevitable onslaught of corona-lit. Fortunately, the first few titles…

Glorious: Bernardo Bellotto at the National Gallery reviewed

14 August 2021 9:00 am

What is the National Gallery playing at? Why, in this summer of stop-start tropical storms, is the NG making visitors…

Rodin was as modern as Magritte and Dali, but more touching and troubling than either

29 May 2021 9:00 am

Rodin’s studio at Meudon in the suburbs of Paris is huge and filled with light — a sort of combined…