Yes, Claude Monet was a great impressionist, but the whopper of a show in Paris reveals definitively that he was so much more
Monthly Archives: September 2010
Eadweard Muybridge, Tate Britain
The pioneering photographer was a showman, an obsessive husband and ultimately a murderer. Yet he was also a profoundly important artist
Treasures from the eastern bloc
Budapest’s priceless artworks are the subject of the Royal Academy’s blockbuster autumn show. Our critic headed there to get the back story
Do we really need all these old paintings?
As the arts face the latest round of funding cuts, what’s a critic to suggest? Flog all the stuff we don’t show and watch the cash roll in…
Naked prejudice
He is berated as an arrogant paedophile who falsified his own life story. Even his talent is often dismissed. Yet Gauguin is a falsely maligned genius