Why painting (still) matters
Reports of the art form’s death have been exaggerated – it retains the power to make new worlds.
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Van Gogh in the yellow house
The artist moved to Arles in 1888 full of optimism. The National Gallery’s major new exhibition, “Poets and Lovers”, selects…
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Banksy’s phoney street art
There's more artistic value to be found among London's grassroots graffiti scene.
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The inventor of the Renaissance
Four and a half centuries after his death, we still owe our understanding of art’s greatest period to Giorgio Vasari.
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The 1924 Paris Olympics: when athletes inspired art
The Fitzwilliam Museum’s latest show highlights an era that saw the sporting and artistic worlds converge.
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The hospice as a sacred place
The hospice building retains a special place in the modern imagination, a new iteration of Larkin’s “serious building on serious…
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The Royal Academy Summer Exhibition: decorous, polite, all too safe
The artists at this year’s inoffensive show have very little to say.
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Tate Britain’s revelatory exhibition of women artists
This extensive survey contains an intriguing array of forgotten works across multiple disciplines.
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