Jenny Saville

‘Mind-blowing’: Why do men’s paintings cost 10 times more than women’s?

For every £1 fetched by a male artist’s work, one by a woman gets a mere 10p – and its value plummets further if she signs it. The creator of Recalculating Art, a shocking new radio exposé, reveals her findings

Mary Ann Sieghart

02, Aug, 2022 @2:32 PM

Haunted Realism review – a queasy, intoxicating view of late capitalism

Rachel Whiteread, Gerhard Richter, Jenny Saville and co explore the age of ‘lost futures’ in a group show that works best unimpeded by theory

Rachel Cooke

12, Jun, 2022 @10:00 AM

Black British painting, gay New York photography and Dr Eno will see you now – the week in art

Tate Britain is preparing the definitive survey of Caribbean British art while Alvin Baltrop cruises the Hudson River piers and modern art turns therapeutic

Jonathan Jones

26, Nov, 2021 @12:00 PM

'My pubic hair paintings could hang in your living room': the artists reclaiming women's sexuality

A Woman’s Right to Pleasure is a new compendium celebrating female erotic art. We meet its contributors, including the photographer who turned her vagina into a camera

Hettie Judah

03, Mar, 2021 @6:00 AM

Great expectations: art's struggle to depict pregnancy

From the Virgin Mary to Demi Moore, art history swells with iconic mums-to-be. But can a single image ever do justice to such a head-scrambling state of flux – especially one made by a man?

Lara Feigel

31, Jan, 2020 @12:04 PM

Tacita Dean and Jenny Saville lead strong female presence at Edinburgh art festival

Phyllida Barlow, Lucy Skaer and Victoria Crowe also feature in the lineup alongside old masters including Canaletto and Rembrandt

Dale Berning Sawa

25, Mar, 2018 @11:01 PM

Jenny Saville’s Entry: humanness reduced to meat

Hailed as an heir to Soutine, Bacon and Freud thanks to her fleshy way with paint, the English artist seeks subjects whose appearances challenge the norm

Skye Sherwin

15, Dec, 2017 @10:00 AM

A naked Iggy Pop rubs shoulders with 1,000 Chinese artists – From Life review

Royal Academy of Arts, London
The rock god makes a fine nude model. But he’s no match for Quentin Crisp wearing nothing but toenail varnish, a blue rinse and a jock-strap

Adrian Searle

08, Dec, 2017 @5:47 PM

Artworks made from fire-gutted Mackintosh library sell for £700,000

Art by Antony Gormley, Jenny Saville and Paula Rego, who used debris from fire, is auctioned for Glasgow School of Art

Mark Brown Arts correspondent

08, Mar, 2017 @6:48 PM

Jenny Saville: 'I used to be anti-beauty'

Saville made her name with giant paintings of fleshy, flawed bodies. She talks about being bankrolled by Charles Saatchi, how having children is changing her art – and the joy of late-night vacuuming

Emine Saner

25, Apr, 2016 @8:00 AM

100 Works of Art That Will Define Our Age by Kelly Grovier – review

This lavish survey recalls some great art of the past 20 years. It is also, like any list, a hostage to fortune, writes Rachel Cooke

Rachel Cooke

21, Sep, 2013 @12:00 PM

Art criticism has become too fawning – time for a best hatchet job award? | Jonathan Jones

Jonathan Jones: Jenny Saville? A heroic mediocrity. Tracey Emin? Outshone by your average newspaper cartoonist. And art critics, like their literary counterparts, should be encouraged to say so

Jonathan Jones

09, Jan, 2013 @3:06 PM