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Picasso: the brains behind the brawn

We think of Picasso as a mans man, a sensualist; but his work is fiercely intellectual. And the British Museums exhibition of his Vollard Suite prints proves that he is all about brain workPablo Pica...

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Why Rodins The Kiss was made for Margate

An extraordinary setting in the Kent seaside towns Turner Contemporary gallery gives Rodins statue of two lovers a Romantic new vistaRodins The Kiss (1901-4) is currently on view at the Turner Contem...

1 day ago

Forget perils to parmesan, its northern Italys art we should be worried about

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 ...

5 days ago

Hold that tweet! Artists should stick to the day job

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 ...

5 days ago

Beam me up, Site festival: Conquistador heads for the rafters

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 ...

21 may 12

Tracey Emins tube map draws a natural connection

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...

17 may 12

Our memories of Mike Kelleys art will be shaped by the manner of his death

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 ...

16 may 12

Anish Kapoors Olympic Park sculpture sends public art into Orbit

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...

15 may 12

Richard Hamilton: the Duchamp-ion of intellectual art

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...

14 may 12

Beauty and the bin: why David Batchelors Skip is not rubbish

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 ...

10 may 12

Whaam! Prepare to be hit by Roy Lichtensteins finest comic book hour

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...

09 may 12

Europe needs a new Renaissance

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...

08 may 12

Astronomical art: the changing face of the supermoon

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...

07 may 12

The Screams price tag should make us all despair

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...

03 may 12

When did modern art become so reluctant to embrace beauty?

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, ...

02 may 12

Is Leonardo da Vinci a great artist or a great scientist?

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...

01 may 12

Tate Britain treats our national art collection like its private plaything

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...

30 apr 12

The Olympics is about sport not art, so culture needs to drop out of the race

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,...

26 apr 12

How the Vollard Suite draws us into the dark mind of Picasso

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...

25 apr 12

The transformative effect of Ovids Metamorphoses on European art

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 ...

24 apr 12

Why Lucian Freud deserves his own gallery

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...

23 apr 12

Can art tell us the truth about syphilis?

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 ...

17 apr 12

No painting, no gain: dont judge an artist by his bank balance

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...

16 apr 12

Olafur Eliassons Olympic art is not a waste of money

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 ...

12 apr 12

Dont sneer at con art unless you care about great art

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...

11 apr 12

Renoirs cinema mirrors his fathers impressionist art

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 ...

10 apr 12

Caravaggios dark heart in Malta

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...

06 apr 12

Religious art is not always an act of faith

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...

04 apr 12

Brains in jars: artists fascination with anatomy

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...

03 apr 12

Rembrandt and the art of growing old gracefully

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 ...

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