FOUR paintings depicting an Edwardian murder scene have gone on show together for the first time, resurrecting speculation that Walter Sickert, the artist, had serial killer tendencies. Sickert, who died in Bath in 1942, has been accused by Patricia Cornwell, the American crime writer, of being Jack the Ripper. He would have been 28 when […]
Monthly Archives: September 2008
Mark Rothko in a whole new light
History paints Rothko as modernism’s martyr – unavoidably tragic – but a startling Tate show suggests we’ve had him wrong all these years
Francis Bacon at the Tate Britain
The Tate’s blockbuster show reveals Francis Bacon’s fierce genius – and limited range, says Waldemar Januszczak
Does Damien Hirst’s auction at Sotheby’s mean the end of the gallery?
Next week, Damien Hirst becomes the first artist to sell brand-new work at auction. He says greed is good for artists