Picasso may have been fiercely superstitious but he was not prone to self-reflection, so he would never have realised just how lucky he was. Pretty much everything in his life worked his way. Surviving to 92 was a basic advantage that few artists had had. So was being in Paris at the moment of western […]
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Walter Sickert – murderous monster or sly self-promoter?
The Courtauld’s show of sad, dark nudes proves just what a clever observer of our foibles he was
There will be no miracles here
Now, that’s where you’re wrong.It’s a miracle this crew made the Turner prize at all
Hunting for gold in Peru
Waldemar Januszczak indulges his obsession with buried treasure on an adventure through the jungles and mountains
Seduced at the Barbican
I want to write this week about good sex and bad sex. In art, that is. The country seems to be going through one of its recurrent touchy periods on these topics, and an exhibition called Seduced, which has popped up at exactly the right moment at the Barbican Art Gallery, claims to be trying […]
Charting pop art’s appeal
A trio of flawed but revealing shows
Why Frieze is hot
London’s Frieze fair is the hippest place to be this week: and the art will be pretty good, too
The talking heads of Easter Island
Easter Island’s monumental moai have a bizarre story to tell. Our correspondent listens to the stones
Millais at Tate Britain
Tate Britain’s fine Sir John Everett Millais show restores his reputation – even as it throws up another sickly problem
Turning the art world on its head
Georg Baselitz continues with his war cries