This year’s Turner prize show is less a humdinger, more a preachy moan. But one artist rises above it all. The winner is…
Monthly Archives: December 2017
Pride and Persecution: Jan Steen’s Old Testament Scenes, Barber Institute of Fine Arts
A new Jan Steen show puts the Dutch artist’s Old Testament work centre stage — for fascinating reasons
The miracle of Da Vinci: turning a £45 oddity into a £341m old master
The record price paid last week for an atypical work by the Renaissance painter tells us more about hype than value in art
Modigliani at Tate Modern: the naked truth
Waldemar Januszczak lays bare the capricious impressionist as his work comes to Tate Modern
Red Star over Russia and Ilya and Emilia Kabakov at Tate Modern
Tate Modern explores Russian posters and installation art — and in both shows there’s something missing
Living with Gods at the British Museum
A display of sacred objects is inspiringly curated by Neil MacGregor
Cézanne Portraits, National Portrait Gallery
A wealth of brilliant Cézannes highlights some sadly scrappy scholarship from the National Portrait Gallery