He is a man at the top of his game — and the queen of nimble social observation in his new London show
Monthly Archives: June 2017
Raphael — The Drawings
Raphael’s drawings at the Ashmolean mark a resurgence in his popularity — and they are full of technical surprises
Hokusai — Beyond the Great Wave
The British Museum’s Hokusai exhibition shows the restless vigour and energy that the great Japanese artist brought to his work well into his eighties
Venice Biennale
Phyllida Barlow puts on a jolly good UK show for the 57th Venice Biennale, but the event’s French chief curator has sadly lost her long-winded way
Giacometti at Tate Modern
Giacometti’s stickies are persons of substance after all, as this clever show proves
Eric Gill at Ditchling Museum of Art + Craft
A terrible human being he might have been — does that make Eric Gill less of an artist, too?
From Selfie to Self-Expression
We are all self-portraitists now, but let’s put away our phones, please
Step into the void
The Italian futurist Giacomo Balla aimed for dynamism, but is lost in a blurred dimension
Every shade of gay
Bacon, Hockney, Wilde: Tate Britain’s queer art show is awash with talent — it’s a shame about the feeble work that’s also floated in
Damien Hirst: In a city of make believe
His Venice show is the most ambitious exhibition any artist has ever mounted, says Waldemar Januszczak