Fingers aren’t on the pulse in this patchy survey of British art. Perhaps it’s because we’re not living through a scintillating homegrown era
Monthly Archives: October 2010
Thomas Lawrence, National Portrait Gallery
After a false start to their defence of Thomas Lawrence, the National Portrait Gallery reveal him as a great painter, not just a Regency sex pest
Canaletto and His Rivals, National Gallery
Do you ever tire of Canaletto? Then look closer — he is no hawker of painted postcards, but a great and pioneering Romantic master
Art Special: Cause for thought
You won’t find radicalism in the 2010 Turner Prize, but works of quiet and sophisticated poetic beauty instead
Gauguin, Tate Modern
Gauguin wasn’t a sex tourist, but a myth-maker and troubled genius, as Tate Modern’s magnificent, unmissable retrospective makes clear