The earthquake in Italy that hit cheese production also showed the fragility of nearby works by Correggio, Mantegna and othersI have never visited the Rocca Estense in San Felice sul Panaro. Now the ...
If Spartacus Chetwynd wins the Turner prize, let her not become a public wit and celebrity aesthete – we have enough of thoseDown the centuries, very few great artists have doubled up as pundits. No ...
Why is a new film installation by Ali Kayley and Dan Glaister, which shows America as a place of perpetual immigration, being shown in an ancient barn in the Cotswolds?I am in an ancient barn in the ...
Her touching design, featuring just five stations, follows in the fine tradition of useless yet thought-provoking mapsTracey Emin has done a sweet design for this summers edition of the pocket London...
The late artists unfinished replica of his childhood home, with its dark underground retreat, suggests parallels with his troubled lifeDoes Van Goghs painting of crows over a wheat field, like black ...
The Orbit tower does not deserve to be pilloried. Its everything that public art should be: wild, unexpected and not consensualSome of the greatest art in the world is public art, including Michelang...
The father of pop art – who is to be the subject of a posthumous exhibition at the National Gallery – also rediscovered and popularised the once-neglected work of Marcel DuchampRichard Hamilton richl...
Critics have been quick to trash Batchelors glow-in-the-dark public work of art, but hes inviting us to see the beauty and magic of the discarded, to notice the wonder that children seeModern art is ...
The retrospective of Lichtensteins work at Londons Tate Modern will display the wit and glorious contradictions of his worksRoy Lichtensteins Whaam! is an eerie modern version of the battle paintings...
The continent that once dominated all others has lost its way – can it reclaim its curiosity and cultural ambition?Looking at the problems Europe faces today, it is hard to believe this continent onc...
This years supermoon was spectacular. But the moon has appeared in many forms, from Raphaels childlike image of a luminous being to Galileo Galileis drawings of a rocky planetPhotographers took spect...
The art market has reduced Edvard Munchs harrowing insight into the human condition to a saleable playthingI used to like The Scream. Its sky of blood and zombie despair seemed to say so much, so hon...
The rejection of beauty as a creative ideal began not with modernism but when modern art started believing its own pressBeauty is the most dangerous idea in art. Its the most dangerous idea in life, ...
Catalogues at the ready: one show posits Da Vinci as a scientific genius, another as the absolute artist. For him, such divisions were meaninglessTheres a row going on down at the Palace. The Royal C...
The growing criticism about Tate Britains policy of sidelining the old art in favour of the modern is a valuable reminder that the Tates collection is really the nationsBack in December 2010 I got ve...
When the best the Cultural Olympiad has to offer is bouncy castles and BMWs, you know its time for art to take a back seatA question arises looking at the full programme for the London 2012 festival,...
Picassos phantasmagorical etchings from the 1930s, which go on display at the British Museum next week, delve into the deepest, darkest corners of the artists psychePablo Picassos greatest achievemen...
As a summer National Gallery exhibition will show, Titian was the greatest visualiser of Ovid – but he had some major competitionThe National Gallery once put on an exhibition about the influence of ...
The popularity of the Freud exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery confirms just how important it is to permanently preserve the work of this truly great artist for future generationsAs crowds c...
It had a profound effect on European Renaissance art, but did the pox originate in America or was it from Europe all along?I have a question for readers about something I really do not claim to be a ...
From Raphael to Leonardo da Vinci, artists have been getting big money for centuries. So why do we judge contemporary artists such as Jeff Koons on the fortunes they make?The 16th-century artist Raph...
Media criticism helped stop lottery funding for Eliassons Take a Deep Breath, but this philistine logic could extend to the whole OlympicsContemporary Art: the Backlash is becoming a reality. It may ...
Recent criticism of contemporary art doesnt stand up when it comes from those who falsely claim the mantle of traditionThis spring has seen a wave of scepticism unleashed against contemporary, or con...
In the 1930s, with Europe on the brink of war, director Jean Renoir found inspiration in Pierre-Augustes tranquil paintingsIn Jean Renoirs film Boudu Saved from Drowning, a Parisian bookseller dives ...
We may never know who killed him, but the signs in Malta are that Caravaggio was paranoid, on the run and in deep troubleIt seems like only yesterday that Michelangelo Merisi, better known as Caravag...
Christian masterpieces certainly exist but some Renaissance artists were painting holy scenes just because they were paid to"To paint the things of Christ you must live with Christ," said the...
From Hirst to Da Vinci, a shared obsession with dissection and the human body seems to connect exhibitions opening this springIs it something to do with the Olympics? Athletics is physical, the logic...
While other artists were coldly curious or, worse, cruel in their depiction of old age, Rembrandt relished the effects of timeRembrandt painted old age with a nobility and power that no other artist ...
The enduring power of Botticellis masterpiece is rooted in its profoundly sensual evocation of the eponymous Roman deitySandro Botticelli painted The Birth of Venus in about 1484. More than 500 years...
Salvador Dalí is seen as the embodiment of the movement but it doesnt make him a great artist. Buñuels films are truly radicalIn Salvador Dalís portrait of Luis Buñuel, the film-maker has a powerful,...
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