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Simon CoatesObserver |
The bicentenary show is entirely digital and thoroughly engaging but woefully incomplete.
If public art is a cool way of starting conversations, Central London is becoming quite the chatterbox. From Ian Davenport’s Poured Lines (the...
The National Portrait Gallery show is also an appreciation of Bacon’s innate understanding of how to make a painting work.
Funded via a foundation established by nineteenth-century Big Pharma businessman Henry Wellcome, the Wellcome Collection’s exhibitions are all...
A selection of the artist’s collection curated by his son presents artworks democratically, with nothing over-staged.
Built in 1841 as the base for a life-size statue of King William IV that never materialized (due to lack of funds), the Fourth Plinth in Trafalgar...
Frank Auerbach has never been coy about his self-imposed mission to search for the new. New ways of drawing and new ways of creating a painting, all...
Until the late 1970s, making a zine was a labor of love and money. Love as in time spent assembling the thing—the cutting out, the sticking...
It was Toorop who—above everyone—would provide Klimt with the fuel needed for his eventual golden fire.