In living colour: the glorious banality of William Eggleston’s photographs
A new exhibition a the National Portrait Gallery shows Eggleston's talent for capturing ordinary ecstasies.
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The East End from the inside
John Claridge’s intimate photographs from the 1960s capture a lost world of wonder and possibility.
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Can film ever work in an art gallery?
Apichatpong Weerasethakul’s Primitive 2009, currently at Tate Modern, looked every bit as ravishing as his cinema work, yet it was hard to…
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Why are people queuing for hours for a 30-second glimpse of some light-up pumpkins?
Art-goers have been enduring three-hour waits for the Yayoi Kusama exhibition, just for a solitary glance at her work. Is…
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Why the legend of Georgia O’Keeffe – fierce, feminist and modernist – has overshadowed her paintings
A new exhibition at Tate Modern reveals how O'Keeffe's personality came to inform her art – and why it's time to…
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The new Tate Modern building is perfectly designed for the Instagram generation
Almost every three minutes a photograph of The Switch House is uploaded to Instagram tagged with the Tate Modern Switch House…
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What Brian Sewell’s Art Auction Tells Us About the Man and the Industry
The late Brian Sewell certainly knew what he didn’t like but, thanks to a recent decision by his estate, we might…
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How Francis Bacon boldly thieved his signature image from Munch – and gave it teeth
A new exhibition at Tate Liverpool reveals how Bacon constructed his striking faces.
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