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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In defence of the King Charles portrait
Jonathan Yeo’s modernist painting captures the weirdness of the monarch.
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The birth of the Blue Rider group
The first comprehensive exhibition of the group’s works in Britain since 1960 shows how Wassily Kandinsky, Gabriele Münter, Franz Marc,…
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Caspar David Friedrich and the mystery of eternity
The great painter, born 250 years ago, made it his lifelong task to depict the numinous in nature.
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Goya’s lessons for a world at war
Why the great Spanish painter’s work still resonates so urgently.
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The last crimes of Caravaggio
Within weeks of finishing his final painting, a murder scene, the artist was himself dead.
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When Europe went Angelica Kauffman mad
How the first female painter admitted into the Royal Academy became one of the great celebrities of her age.
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