Painting
Hardcore review – a BDSM paradise that leaves you yearning to join in
With its whips and hoists and axes, this group show is a playground of sexual fetishism – but what was once dangerous or taboo can now appear quaint and cliched
Adrian Searle
31, May, 2023 @12:29 PM
In the frame: Tate Britain’s rehang has received a mixed response
A reshuffle of Tate Britain’s collections has led to it being accused of reducing art to social history
Vanessa Thorpe
28, May, 2023 @11:00 AM
Flaming June, once a student poster favourite, returns to London home
The only colour study by Frederic Leighton for his famous painting is set to go on show at restored museum
Vanessa Thorpe
28, May, 2023 @8:00 AM
Hurvin Anderson: Salon Paintings review – bright, beautiful series brings barbershops to life
In living scenes, rich with dissonant colours and tactile textures, Anderson’s collage-like paintings explore Black British social spaces in the impressionist cafe tradition
Eliza Goodpasture
26, May, 2023 @3:40 PM
Painted Love – on the marriage market in Renaissance Europe
Although these portraits were something like dating profiles for aristocrats to woo across countries, staring back across the centuries they have an enigmatic privacy
Jonathan Jones
26, May, 2023 @2:18 PM
Photorealist suburbia, Russian war protesters and the dark side of Constable – the week in art
A major show for photorealists Boyd and Evans, protesters mourn victims of the war in Ukraine and looming storms spark savage poetry – all in your weekly dispatch
Jonathan Jones
26, May, 2023 @11:00 AM
Rolf Harris, convicted sex offender and entertainer, dies aged 93
Artist, musician and TV personality, who was jailed for sexual assaults against girls and young women, died on 10 May
Alexandra Topping and Jim Waterson
23, May, 2023 @4:35 PM
John Walker obituary
Other Lives: Art historian and art critic who wrote more than 15 books
Sophie Orman
22, May, 2023 @4:09 PM
Artist Hurvin Anderson: ‘I’m always nervous about the word identity. I try not to use it’
Last week, the British painter became a Royal Academician. On the eve of a major solo show he talks about Black British art, the difficulties facing working-class artists today – and the appeal of the Caribbean barbershop
Kadish Morris
21, May, 2023 @1:00 PM
Fears looted Nazi art still hanging in European galleries
Leading art museums are reassessing their works after a Belgian journalist traced how a fascist sympathiser acquired a Jewish dealer’s collection
Jennifer Rankin in Brussels
20, May, 2023 @12:38 PM
Sublime clutter, Scottish moderns and … Gazza? – the week in art
Sarah Sze’s collected clutter of modern life, Paolozzi and Eardley join the modern canon and an imaginary show about the footballer becomes real – all in your weekly dispatch
Jonathan Jones
19, May, 2023 @11:00 AM
Susan Drucker-Brown obituary
Other lives: Anthropologist whose work proved influential in studies of West African kingship
Toby Brown
18, May, 2023 @7:27 PM
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