Florence Hallett
29 July 2026
The tiny dolls with souls at the heart of a museum repatriation debate
Made from shells in northern Australia and taken to Manchester, they’re now on show in Venice
Read the full article17 July 2026
The bitter beauty of Paula Rego
The artist was hired to design a series of wine labels – and delivered dark visions of alcoholism
Read the full article15 July 2026
‘Reasoned debate feels like a fucked idea’: Isabel Nolan on humanism in the darkness
Can books still change the world? At the Venice Biennale, the Irish artist contrasts Renaissance dreams with our current crisis
Read the full article15 June 2026
How David Hockney became an accidental life coach
For all his masterpieces like A Bigger Splash, his greatest work may be teaching us to regard the everyday as a miracle
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How Helen Frankenthaler became art’s greatest tribute act
Her homages to painters from Monet to Pollock only underline her own unique genius
Read the full article07 May 2026
Why did the Venice Biennale go soft on Russia?
Protests have rocked the so-called ‘Art Olympics’ over its decision to let Putin exercise soft power
Read the full article22 April 2026
Konrad Mägi, the controversial painter who though Paris was full of ‘sloppy rubbish’
The Estonian artist thought the French masters were ‘hideous’ and ‘boring’. How does his own work measure up?
Read the full article18 March 2026
The very strange genius of Stanley Spencer
The painter brought Jesus to Berkshire, found sensuality in Wangford and planned a church based on his own life
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Anna Ancher’s light fantastic
The great Dane who ignored a teacher’s instructions to throw her paintbox into the sea
Read the full article28 January 2026
Wes Anderson’s dollhouse world
Exhibitions in London and Paris show a big-time director whose remarkable attention to detail comes from thinking small
Read the full article07 January 2026
Mary Kelly’s countdown to catastrophe
The veteran artist’s World on Fire Timeline maps a century of crisis and resistance
Read the full article07 January 2026
Carona, the Swiss village where art hid out
A sleepy Alpine mountain retreat offered shelter for surrealists, LSD prophets and weary hippies
Read the full article31 December 2025
Women in the frame: the art to see in the next 12 months
Female voices are set to dominate the arts world in 2026
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Nigerian art against the empire
A brilliant Nigerian Modernism exhibition shows the defiant beauty born from oppression
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Lee Miller beyond the bathtub
Everyone knows the famous image of the photographer in Hitler’s bath. But her lesser-known work is equally compelling
Read the full article15 October 2025
A tragic radical’s search for meaning
Ketty La Rocca’s early death brought a sudden halt to her witty, melancholy outsider art
Read the full article08 October 2025
The triumph of ‘nobody’s darlings’
Ignored at home, female artists from Australia and New Zealand came to Europe and forged their own daring style
Read the full article09 August 2025
How the Tate became a culture war punchbag
Right wingers claiming that ‘woke’ has killed the galleries are indulging in wishful thinking
Read the full article06 August 2025
Edward Burra, the artist who wasn’t interested
The painter didn’t have much time for art, or sex or his home town. But don’t let that fool you
Read the full article05 July 2025
Can Milan afford its art boom?
Big-money galleries are moving in, but an underpaid, precariously employed workforce isn’t convinced
Read the full article11 June 2025
Luc Tuymans, the angry artist who went to church
The Belgian is – temporarily – replacing Tintoretto in one of the Venice’s sacred spaces. But first he wants to talk about Trump
Read the full article07 May 2025
The museum that delivers
An old post office in Trondheim reinvents itself as an international art destination with a playfully bold redesign and a seriously deep collection
Read the full article16 March 2025
A great British refugee’s pottery throwdown
Hans Coper fled the Nazis - and found a post-war state ready to sponsor art as it rebuilt the country
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Paule Vézelay, the reinventor
Marjorie Watson-Williams changed her name to Paule Vézelay, her home city from Bristol to Paris... and then set about changing art
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Pornographer? Collaborator? Genius?
Francis Picabia was derided for wartime nudes with a worryingly Aryan aspect. But a new exhibition of later work suggests we may need to re-evaluate him
Read the full article15 January 2025
The Nazis’ London HQ
How prewar Germany turned an embassy close to Buckingham Palace into a temple to Hitler’s ideology
Read the full article29 December 2024
‘Poor art’ in rich places
A defunct commodities exchange in Paris, owned by a billionaire, is the setting for an exhibition of a radical art movement that used lowly materials to react against consumerism
Read the full article07 November 2024
Florence’s angels of mud
First came a devastating flood.. then a city’s battle to save its cultural heritage
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An exhibition at a moment of vital importance
In a tense year, a new Athens exhibition celebrates our precious freedom to vote
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Following Luigi Ghirri out of the ordinary
The Italian photographer who captured the magic in the everyday
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The art of survival
Bombed, suppressed, destroyed… but the work of Ukrainian artists goes on
Read the full article31 July 2024
Peggy Guggenheim: the calm and the collector
How the British countryside saved modern art’s greatest champion
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