Tate britain
Best in show
Martin Gayford recommends the exhibitions to see — and to avoid — over the coming year
Artistic taste is inversely proportional to political nous
‘Wherever the British settle, wherever they colonize,’ observed the painter Benjamin Robert Haydon, ‘they carry and will ever carry trial…
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Shape-shifter
In the last two decades of her life, Barbara Hepworth was a big figure in the world of art. A…
Tate Britain
Things have not been happy at Tate Britain for some time. Last year Waldemar Januszczak wrote an article culminating with…
Elephant in the room
In the centre of the new exhibition Sculpture Victorious at Tate Britain there is a huge white elephant. The beast…
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
From the sublime to the ridiculous
In the Royal Academy’s courtyard are two large glass cases or vitrines containing model submarines. In one the sea has…
Sheer delight
British folk art has been shamefully neglected in the land of its origin, as if the popular handiwork of past…
Discerning eye
Earlier this year, I sat down and watched Kenneth Clark’s groundbreaking TV series Civilisation. I vaguely remember when it was…
Top of the form
When I visited the Richard Deacon exhibition at Tate Millbank, there were quite a lot of single men of a…
Brush with boredom
The death of painting has been so often foretold — almost as frequently as its renaissance — that any such…
A look ahead
Andrew Lambirth reveals the treats on show in 2014
Proud to be British
There has been much positive comment about the rehang of the Tate’s permanent collection, which sees a welcome return to…
