The perils of artists’ posthumous fame
Also this week: Philip Larkin’s “ecclesiastical journeys”, and general election date intel.
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Race across the landscape
In “Soulscapes”, contemporary artists of the African diaspora depict the lands that shaped them.
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Yoko Ono’s seriously playful art
Her Tate Modern retrospective delights me with its mixture of silliness and profundity.
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Frank Auerbach’s unsettling charcoal heads
These portraits have a haunted quality, the spectres of all the deleted images that went before.
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Tristram Hillier, England’s quiet surrealist
The painter’s immaculate pictures of an off-kilter world are works of concentration and contemplation.
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The art exhibitions to see in 2024
The most intriguing shows of the year, from the National Gallery at 200 to purple landscapes and charcoal heads.
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Wolfgang Tillmans: “Art doesn’t have a purpose”
The photographer on the decline of the London art scene post-Brexit, coming out at 16, and political responsibility.
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Winter wonderlands: writers on their favourite artworks
Ali Smith, Julian Barnes, Ai Weiwei and others choose seasonal scenes.
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