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London’s New Scene by Lisa Tickner review – seven events that smashed the art world
From the pop art of Peter Blake, Pauline Boty and David Hockney to Michelangelo Antonioni’s Blow-Up … how 60s’ London came to lead the way
Frances Spalding
03, Jul, 2020 @8:00 AM
Self-Portrait by Celia Paul review – life with and without Lucian Freud
The artist Celia Paul, increasingly frustrated by frequent mentions of her turbulent relationship in books and articles, decided to tell her own revealing story
Frances Spalding
20, Nov, 2019 @7:30 AM
Misère by Linda Nochlin review – the visual representation of misery
The critic best known for her essay ‘Why Have There Been No Great Women Artists?’ returns in this posthumous book to her core subject, 19th-century realism
Frances Spalding
08, Aug, 2018 @10:00 AM
The Tiger in the Smoke: Art and Culture in Post-War Britain by Lynda Nead – review
A vivid assessment of Britain’s search for modernity after the second world war
Frances Spalding
05, Jan, 2018 @9:01 AM
Pre-juggernaut paradise: True to Life – British Realist Painting in the 1920s and 1930s review
Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh
Realism is often seen as dim, dull and directionless. This enthralling show proves that, between the wars, it was anything but
Realism is often seen as dim, dull and directionless. This enthralling show proves that, between the wars, it was anything but
Frances Spalding
29, Jun, 2017 @11:49 AM
Joan Eardley: the forgotten artist who captured Scotland's life and soul
Children from the slums, bleak seascapes, village fishermen at work … the vibrant visions of Joan Eardley are finding a new following
Frances Spalding
10, Feb, 2017 @12:00 PM
Shakespeare and Company, Paris review – the famous bookshop with beds
Sylvia Beach’s store, where Hemingway, Joyce and others gathered, was closed down by the Nazis. A new incarnation has welcomed readers for more than 50 years
Frances Spalding
12, Oct, 2016 @2:00 PM
Piet Mondrian: The Studios edited by Cees W de Jong review – Mondrian’s modernist meccas
From a damp hut in the Netherlands to a quiet haven in Paris, the great painter’s many studios were laboratories for his artistic ideas
Frances Spalding
25, Nov, 2015 @12:00 PM
Abstract art: from the radical to the everyday
Mondrian’s bold grids, Malevich’s Black Square, Jenny Holzer’s top secret redacted government documents ... a new exhibition celebrates the point and edge of 100 years of abstraction. By Frances Spalding
Frances Spalding
10, Jan, 2015 @8:00 AM
This Is Bacon by Kitty Hauser review – nicely subversive
A punchy introduction to an artist who attracts high scholarship and low gossip, writes Frances Spalding
Frances Spalding
18, Sep, 2014 @6:30 AM
Michael Brick obituary
Artist who used geometric shapes to express complexity and paradox
Frances Spalding
31, Aug, 2014 @4:51 PM
Kazimir Malevich: the man who liberated painting
Malevich's Black Square was an emptying out of all the value associated with art. Ahead of a new Tate Modern show, Frances Spalding explores the work of a revolutionary painter
Frances Spalding
04, Jul, 2014 @11:01 AM
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